Classical information describes the number of "yes-no" questions it takes to do a task.
Only one click is emitted, usually as an answer to a yes-no question.
Could she phrase a suitable yes-no question so that the lie would give her a direct answer?
For example, yes-no questions present propositions, being inquiries into the truth value of them.
He knew where it was, of course, but couldn't tell her unless she asked the right series of yes-no questions.
Some languages do not answer yes-no questions with single words meaning 'yes' or 'no'.
In English, a special word order (verb-subject-object) is used to form yes-no questions.
Also many (but not all) languages have words that function like the English yes and no, used to give short answers to yes-no questions.
There are two ways to form a yes-no questions.
It can be used alone to answer a yes-no question.