--- title: In "guess my number" with yes-or-no answers, halving each time is be… — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzle… · tree and pragmatics description: In "guess my number" with yes-or-no answers, halving each time is best: 4 questions always find a number from 1 to 16, 5 from 1 to 32, and 7 from 1 to 100. Who acts: halving, 4 questions. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (halving, 4 questions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:031-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine.lesson:5 # text = In "guess my number" with yes-or-no answers, halving each time is best: 4 questions always find a number from 1 to 16, 5 from 1 to 32, and 7 from 1 to 100. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 031-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:case 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 obl _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 13 discourse _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 halving halve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 24 advmod _ _ 24 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos 33 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:compound 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 flat _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 flat _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my number | | | | with no answers | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | | 2 | **halve** | gerund | | | | | time | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | halving | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | present | 4 questions | a number | | 1 to 16 | | always *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent number=Theme from 1=Source | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:ai:031-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/4/) - next →: [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/)