The MegaAcceptability dataset
Authors: Aaron Steven White, Hannah YoungEun An, and Kyle Rawlins
Contact: aaron.white@rochester.edu, yan2@ur.rochester.edu, kgr@jhu.edu
Version: 2.0
Release date: 14 Aug 2019
Overview
This MegaAcceptability dataset consists of ordinal acceptability judgments for 1,007 clause-embedding verbs of English in 50 surface-syntactic frames and three matrix tenses. This dataset combines the MegaAcceptability version 1.0 and data collected for 25,000 additional verb-frame pairs on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk using Ibex on Mechanical Turk.
For a detailed description of the dataset, the item construction and collection methods, and discussion of how to use a dataset on this scale to address questions in linguistic theory, please see the following papers:
White, A.S. & K. Rawlins. 2020. Frequency, acceptability, and selection: A case study of clause-embedding. Accepted to Glossa.
An, H.Y. & A.S. White. 2020. The lexical and grammatical sources of neg-raising inferences. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 3:23, 220-233.
White, A. S. & K. Rawlins. 2016. A computational model of S-selection. In M. Moroney, C-R. Little, J. Collard & D. Burgdorf (eds.), Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26, 641-663. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
If you make use of this dataset in a presentation or publication, we ask that you please cite these papers.
Version history
1.0: first public release, 30 Oct 2016 1.1: formatting update, 14 Aug 2019 2.0: first public release, 14 Aug 2019
Description
| Column | Description | Values |
|---|---|---|
| participant | anonymous integer identifier for participant that provided the response | 0…1293 |
| list | integer identifier for list participant was responding to | 0…1499 |
| presentationorder | relative position of item in list | 1…50 |
| verb | clause-embedding verb found in the item | see paper |
| frame | clausal complement found in the item | see paper |
| tense | matrix tense found in the item | present, past, past_progressive |
| response | ordinal scale acceptability response | 1…7 |
| nativeenglish | whether the participant reported speaking American English natively | True, False |
| sentence | sentence that was judged | see paper |
| version | MegaAcceptability dataset version where the judgment first appeared | 1, 2 |
Notes
- A javascript error produced 10 NA values for
response, none of which affect the same verb-frame pair. All such values are inherited from version 1.x