The MegaIntensionality Dataset
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 annotator judgments from the lexicon-scale study on lexically-triggered belief and desire inferences 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 presented participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk with low-content, templatic sentences (e.g. A loved that C happened) featuring English clause-embedding verbs in different syntactic contexts and asked about the likelihood that subject or object believes or desires the content of the embedded clause. Details of the item construction and the experimental setup can be found in that 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-v1.tsv contains the raw data.
| Column | Description | Values |
|---|---|---|
| participant | anonymous integer identifier for participant that provided the response | 0…271 |
| antecedent_verb | lemma of clause-embedding verb found in the antecedent sentence | see paper |
| antecedent_frame | the syntactic frame of the antecedent verb | see paper |
| antecedent_polarity | the polarity of the matrix clause of the antecedent sentence | positive, negative |
| antecedent_text | the text of the antecedent sentence | see paper |
| consequent_verb | lemma of the verb in the consequent sentence (denoting the inference type) | believe, want |
| consequent_text | the text of the consequent sentence | see paper |
| consequent_embedded_tense | the tense of the verb in the consequent’s embedded clause | past, future |
| target | the target of the inference judgment | subject, object |
| sanity | the number of sanity check questions correctly answered by the participant | 1…4 |
| response | the participant’s raw response giving the likelihood of the inference | [0.0, 1.0] |
mega-intensionality-v1-normalized.tsv contains the normalized data.
| Column | Description | Values |
|---|---|---|
| antecedent_verb | lemma of clause-embedding verb found in the antecedent sentence | see paper |
| antecedent_frame | the syntactic frame of the antecedent verb | see paper |
| antecedent_polarity | the polarity of the matrix clause of the antecedent sentence | positive, negative |
| antecedent_text | the text of the antecedent sentence | see paper |
| consequent_verb | lemma of the verb in the consequent sentence (denoting the inference type) | believe, want |
| consequent_text | the text of the consequent sentence | see paper |
| consequent_embedded_tense | the tense of the verb in the consequent’s embedded clause | past, future |
| target | the target of the inference judgment | subject, object |
| sanity | the number of sanity check questions correctly answered by the participant | 1…4 |
| response_normalized | the normalized response giving the likelihood of the inference | (0.0, 1.0) |