Respond to the prompts below by interacting with https://bootstrapworld.org/Soekia/.

Soekia & Tic-Tac-Toe

Access the Documents panel by clicking the "LOOK INSIDE Soekia’s look inside icon - a right facing arrow" button in the upper right-hand corner of Soekia.

  • Click Soekia’s collection icon and select Soekia’s tic tac toe icon from the drop-down menu.

1 Describe what you see.

2 How are the documents of the tic-tac-toe collection similar to the documents of the fairy tale collection? How are they different?

In the Generate Text panel,

  • Click Soekia’s start writing icon to tell Soekia to generate a set of game moves.

  • Click ▶️ TicTacToe-player (beneath the list of moves) to see a visualization of the game you just generated. Note that the player only appears after you have generated and paused a tic-tac-toe game.

3 In what ways does the game seem similar to a normal game of Tic Tac Toe? In what ways does it seem different?

Thinking About Natural Language Processing

In the Documents panel,

  • Click Soekia’s collection icon and select Soekia’s music icon from the dropdown menu.

In the Generate Text panel,

  • Click Soekia’s start writing icon to tell Soekia to write you some music. Click ▶️ Music-Player to try playing your composition.

4 What do you Notice? What do you Wonder?

5 an image of a musical staff with a repeat sign, represented by two vertical lines and two dotsIn musical notation, a "repeat sign" (pictured on right) indicates that a section of the music should be repeated. Does Soekia’s music player repeat when it arrives at a repeat sign? Why or why not? (Stuck? Test it out in Soekia.)

In the Documents panel,

  • Click Soekia’s collection icon and select Soekia’s chess icon from the bottom of the dropdown menu.

In the Generate Text panel,

  • Click Soekia’s start writing icon to tell Soekia to generate a set of chess moves. Click ▶️ Chess-Player to visualize the game.

6 In actual chess, a player starts with two knights and there is no way to gain additional knights. How come additional knights sometimes appear in this chess game?

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