Elamur Groupantsmova-elephant-ask
The groupant beside tools/elephant/src/ask.rs in the Mova repository: what the code computes, what it never does, how to go back from its outputs, its invariants, cost and checks.
Facts
Implementation material. A Mova code model describes this code at one source revision: partial models, finite checks and their stated scope. It is not a reviewed general exposition, and its labels are shown as written, never raised.
Components
| component | label | where |
|---|---|---|
| Approximant | partial | Forward approximant |
| Ast | partial | syntax.json |
| Composition | partial | Composition |
| Cost | partial | Cost |
| Descriptant | present | Descriptant |
| Invariant | partial | Invariant |
| Tests | finite evidence | Tests |
Obernants
The typed relations around the forward model: the behaviour complement (what the code never does), the reverse reconstruction (every input compatible with an output) and specialised views.
| relation | type | label | where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavior complement | behavior complement | partial source derived model | Behavior complement |
| Reverse reconstruction | reverse reconstruction | partial source derived model | Reverse reconstruction |
Model text
Descriptant
The Elephant's reader of questions about words over Mova's own parse: a fixed table of frames (does, objects, subjects, isa, is-a, plausible), each one graph query, with answers realized from the results. Source: tools/elephant/src/ask.rs.
Forward approximant
quoted span (one of «», “”, double or word-boundary single quotes) replaced by it -> Tree::parse_cased -> negation or several sentences -> NotMine; frames by the root and its nsubj/obj/cop children; plausible: the quoted sentence parsed, its subject, object (a second subject after the verb read as the object) and copular roles scored with plausibility_isa, the roles swapped; answer sentences from the results.
Invariant
Reads only; deterministic (same prompt, same graph, same answer); a question it does not read goes to the deputy; absence of an edge is reported as no evidence, never as false.
Cost
One parse (milliseconds) and O(k) graph reads per question; 107-159 ms per question through serve on the 50 000-article view (2026-11-06).
Composition
Parent: elephant. Called by animal::answer before the deputy.
Behavior complement
Never acts, never writes, never calls a model; refuses negation, statements, several sentences and unlisted frames by passing them on. Evidence status: source-derived model with finite checks, not a proof.
Reverse reconstruction
The frame and the result JSON recover the query asked of the graph.
Tests
Checks
ask::tests (quotations); English tests: 14 questions on a synthetic graph with their frames and answers, 5 prompts not taken, two runs equal; red control: the negation check removed turns them red. These are finite fixtures and measurements; not a proof.
History
2026-11-06 · document
Epoch 2026-11-06
First model, written with the source (the Elephant made incremental and an animal on Mova).
Provenance
This page in Markdown → https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/mova/tools/elephant/src/ask.rs.groupant/