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Table 1 Example of several states and their satisfaction of constraints

From: Model-based analysis of thinking in problem posing as sentence integration focused on violation of the constraints

No.

State

Composition of sentence cards

Constraint

Number of violated constraints

C1

C2

C3

C4

C5

1

001

–

      

–

0

0

0

0

0

0

There are 3 white rabbits

      

2

014

–

      

There are 3 white rabbits

−1

0

0

0

0

1

There are 8 white rabbits

      

3

246

There are ? black rabbits

      

There are 8 white rabbits

−1

−1

1

−1

−1

4

There are 3 brown rabbits

      
  1. C1 calculation, C2 story type, C3 number, C4 object, C5 sentence structure