NPTEL Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation And Reasoning Week 11 Assignment Answers 2025

NPTEL Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation And Reasoning Week 11 Assignment Answers 2025

1. A Frame ________________ .

  • is a representation mechanism that reflects domain structure
  • is a boundary drawn for a unary predicate in a semantic net
  • is a precursor to class and object in object oriented programming
  • is an electronic case for storing a photo
  • is a mechanism for aggregation of information into a data structure
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2. The filler of a slot in an individual frame may be ____________ .

  • a value
  • another individual frame
  • a generic frame
  • an attached procedure
  • none of the above
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3. The program PAM was designed _______________ .

  • to understand natural language stories
  • to apply planning knowledge to generate a plan in a situation
  • to work with relations between goals and plans of an actor
  • to work with relations between goals and actions of an actor
  • to work with relations between plans and actions of an actor
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4. The program PAM ______________ .

  • does only top down reasoning
  • does only bottom up reasoning
  • alternates between the two till a match for the input happens
  • may hypothesize (assume) goals that an agent may have but are not stated
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5. Which of the following are true for bottom up reasoning in PAM?

  • A plan is explained by a goal.
  • A goal is explained by a plan.
  • A goal is explained by an action.
  • An action is explained by a goal.
  • A plan is explained by an action
  • An action is explained by a plan.
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6. Which of the following are true for top down reasoning in PAM?

  • A plan predicts a goal.
  • A goal predicts a plan.
  • A goal predicts an action.
  • An action predicts a goal.
  • A plan predicts an action.
  • An action predicts a plan.
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7. Goal conflict in PAM refers __ .

  • when one goal precludes another goal of the same actor
  • when one goal precludes another goal of a different actor
  • a planner creates a plan to solve a goal that recurs very often
  • when a goal is more general than another goal
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8. Goal concord in PAM refers __ .

  • when one goal facilitates another goal of the same actor
  • when one goal facilitates another goal of a different actor
  • when two goals of an actor are conflicting
  • when a goal is more general than another goal
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9. When PAM hears about an action in the story that was not a prediction it tries to find out if __ .

  • the action was arbitrary and not related to the story
  • the action was a part of a known plan of the actor
  • the action was part of a plan for a known goal of the actor
  • the action was instigated by another actor
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10. In the terminology used by PAM a GAP is __ .

  • is part of the story that is missing
  • is the distance between and action and a distant goal
  • is an empty slot in the CD representation that needs to be filled
  • a generalized application planner
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11. The algorithm Classify __ .

  • is used to determine the class label of a new input
  • uses the subsumes relation to construct a taxonomy
  • is used to distinguish plans from goals
  • is used to distinguish actions from plans
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12. In an abstraction hierarchy __ .

  • there is a relation expressed between a class and a subclass
  • reified elements are composed from simpler elements
  • one implements a part-of relation between entities
  • two elements are related by the IS-A or INSTANCE-OF relation
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13. Inheritance is said to be strict if __ .

  • an entity can inherit something only from one ancestor
  • an entity can override an inherited value
  • an entity cannot override an inherited value
  • if every value has to be inherited from some ancestor
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14. Edges in an inheritance hierarchy represent __ .

  • connections to role fillers
  • a class subclass relation
  • a part-of relation
  • none of the above
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15. An inheritance hierarchy with a conclusion node C w.r.t. a node “A” __ .

  • can have the conclusion “A is a C” .
  • can have the conclusion “A is not C”.
  • can have both the conclusions “A is a C” and “A is not a C”.
  • cannot have both the conclusions “A is a C” and “A is not a C”.
  • cannot have an admissible positive path and an admissible negative path from A to C.
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16. A credulous extension of a (possibly ambiguous) inheritance hierarchy with respect to a node “A” __ .

  • is a subgraph of the inheritance hierarchy
  • extends the hierarchy to its transitive closure
  • has a path from A to every node in the extension
  • does not support both a conclusion C and the conclusion ¬C
  • can support both a conclusion C and the conclusion ¬C
  • can be extended to a larger subgraph of the hierarchy which is a credulous extension
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17. Identify the edges that are admissible with respect to node ‘a’ in the above graph.

  • a ∙ B
  • a ∙ G
  • B ∙ C
  • G ∙ ¬C
  • C ∙ D
  • D ∙ E
  • B ∙ ¬E
  • None of the above.
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18. Identify the redundant edges in the above graph with respect to ‘a’.

  • a ∙ B
  • a ∙ G
  • B ∙ C
  • G ∙ ¬C
  • C ∙ D
  • D ∙ E
  • B ∙ ¬E
  • None of the above.
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19. Which of the following paths are admissible?

  • a ∙B ∙C ∙D ∙E
  • a ∙D ∙E
  • a ∙B ∙¬E
  • a ∙G ∙¬C
  • a ∙G ∙¬C ∙D
  • a ∙G ∙¬C ∙D ∙E
  • None of the above.
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20. Which of the following beliefs hold for ‘a’?

  • a→ E
  • a → ¬E
  • a → C
  • a → ¬C
  • a → D
  • a → ¬D
  • None of the above.
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