MegaIntensionality Norming Study

Authors: Benjamin Kane, William Gantt, and Aaron Steven White

Contact: bkane2@cs.rochester.edu, wgantt@cs.rochester.edu, aaron.white@rochester.edu

Version: 1.0

Release date: 8 May 2021

Overview

This dataset contains the raw participant responses from the norming study described in the following paper:

Kane, Benjamin & W. Gantt & A. S. White. 2021. Intensional gaps: relating veridicality, factivity, doxasticity, bouleticity, and neg-raising. Accepted to Semantics and Linguistic Theory 31.

This study asked participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk to answer questions about what proportion of certain groups of people believe or want certain things. Details of the item construction and the experimental setup can be found in the above paper, and we kindly ask that you cite it if you make use of this data in a presentation or publication.

Version history:

1.0: first public release, 8 May 2021

Description:

mega-intensionality-norming-v1.tsv

Column	Description	Values
participant	anonymous integer identifier for participant that provided the response	0…99
listid	integer identifier for the list participant was responding to	0…3
verb	lemma of the clause-embedding verb for this item	see paper
subject	the subject of the question/consequent	see paper
question	the text of the question	see paper
consequent	the lemma of the consequent verb	believe, want
valence	the general valence of the content of the embedded clause	positive, negative
response	the participant’s raw response	0.0…1.0