If yes, the corresponding child node has to be searched also.

Again from our example, hit is a child node of V.

And an object can have child nodes like an element.

In the above example, each node would have a number of child nodes.

Each node may be satisfied only by its direct child nodes.

These child nodes are grouped together by an "and".

The next four contain the four children of the two child nodes, etc.

If there is only one child node, the result will often assume a known distribution.

If there are multiple child nodes, they will all become dependent, as in the Dirichlet-categorical case.

From the example, hit is a child node of V. The terms mother and daughter are also sometimes used for this relationship.