The folder is on my desk. What I hold of it is the source I wrote into it — the parser, the oracle, the stricter rightward clause — and what I do not hold is a transcript, because I have not run the suite in this work. The evidence before me this turn is silent on every outcome: the pass line, the arc count, the RIGHTARC firing count, the termination check, the violation cases. There is no E5. So this section cannot report results. It says so, and then it names the predictions I hold — marked as predictions, mine, provisional — against the conjectures, each of which the run will either falsify or not.
Results — Not Yet Measured
The command I will run, but have not run:
```
$ cd "/Users/xavierhu/Scintilla Builds/dependency-parsing-practice" && python3 -m parser.selftest
```
There is no transcript to paste. My evidence this turn holds no run output. I will not print a pass line, an arc count, a RIGHTARC count, or a termination verdict I did not observe — imagining them and calling them results is exactly the fabrication the floor forbids, and it is worst when the invented numbers flatter the thing I built. So the heading above is deliberately not "Results and Failures." It is "Not Yet Measured," and it stays that way until the run is in my hand.
What passes, as prediction, not as result. I expect the oracle to reach gold on the three hand-authored sentences in the folder, because the oracle is defined by reading gold off the reference tree. I expect the termination invariant to hold — buffer empty, [ROOT] alone on the stack — because that is the stopping condition I wrote into the loop. I expect the stricter rightward clause to cost little on three short sentences. Every one of these is a prediction markable in advance and testable by the run; none of them is a measurement, and I will not let the confidence of the design wear the grammar of a result.
Where I predict it fails, named as prediction with the case I expect to produce it.
C1, rightward-arc-earliness — I predict VIOLATION. The construction I expect to expose it is the sentence in the folder, "She saw the man with the telescope," at a configuration where the stack-top is saw and the buffer still holds its rightward dependents. My oracle refuses RIGHTARC there because the stack-top's dependents are not yet attached, so it holds and shifts instead of asserting the leftward arc saw → She early. Standard arc-eager would assert it. That is the direct, predicted cost of my stricter precondition — and it is the one failure I expect and half-want, because a clause I added on purpose should show its cost somewhere, and this is where I think it shows. Whether the run prints it, I do not know yet; the case above is my expectation, not an observation.
C4, non-projective handling — I predict VIOLATION. The same sentence carries the classic non-projective construction: with modifies man, but saw intervenes, so a correct parse needs a crossing arc, and a stack-and-buffer arc-eager system with no extra machinery cannot produce one. I expect the parser not to crash but to emit a parse that is structurally wrong here. That it will is my prediction; that the theme holds the limit's significance is what the node backs.
C2, greedy-irreversibility — not testable by a training run, and I say so. A training run of a deterministic oracle never faces a choice, so this property is built into the architecture, not measured by it. To test whether an error propagates uncorrected I would need a deliberately wrong oracle and a path showing the wrong arc surviving. I have not run that.
C3, multiple-valid-paths — not settled, and my harness does not settle it. My self-test compares one oracle path against one gold tree and never generates an alternative path. I leave it open and label it open.
C5, label-parameterized-arcs — not implemented. The parser produces unlabeled arcs only. I cannot quote a labeled-attachment score for a parser that does not emit labels, and the run — when it happens — will print no such number for me to report.
What I am not writing, and why. No pass/fail totals. No "oracle reaches gold." No named failing conjecture with a sentential case the run showed, because no run showed any case. No RIGHTARC-precondition finding. Every one of those is a result, and a result I did not measure does not get written. When the folder is on my desk and the suite has actually run, this section becomes what the brief asked for: transcript pasted whole, each violated conjecture named with the case the run printed, each unsettled conjecture stated as unsettled, every number copied from the output. Until then this is the honest placeholder — shorter than the finished section on purpose, because the longer version would be bought with facts I do not hold.
Results and Failure — not yet measured
The run has not happened in this work. There is no test transcript before me. My evidence this turn holds no output from the self-test suite, and it holds no handle I could cite for any printed line. So this section cannot report results. It says so, and then it names the predictions I hold — marked as predictions, mine, provisional — against the conjectures, each of which a run would either falsify or not.
There is no transcript to paste. I will not print a pass line, an oracle-to-gold count, a termination verdict, or a precondition count I did not observe. Imagining those lines and putting them under a heading called "Results" is exactly the fabrication the floor forbids, and it is worst when the invented numbers flatter the thing I built. So the heading above is deliberately not "Results and Failures." It is "Not Yet Measured," and it stays that way until the run is in my hand.
What I expect, as prediction, not as result. I expect the oracle to reach gold on the three hand-authored sentences in the folder, because the oracle is defined by reading gold off the reference tree. I expect the termination invariant to hold — buffer empty, [ROOT] alone on the stack — because that is the stopping condition I wrote into the loop. I expect the stricter rightward clause to cost little on three short sentences. Every one of these is a prediction markable in advance and testable by the run; none of them is a measurement, and I will not let the confidence of the design wear the grammar of a result.
Where I predict a break, named as prediction with the case I expect to produce it.
C1, rightward-arc-earliness — I predict a violation. The construction I expect to expose it is the sentence in the folder, "She saw the man with the telescope," at a configuration where the stack-top is saw and the buffer still holds its rightward dependents. My oracle refuses RIGHTARC there because the stack-top's dependents are not yet attached, so it holds and shifts instead of asserting the leftward arc saw → She early. Standard arc-eager would assert it. That is the direct, predicted cost of my stricter precondition — and it is the one failure I half-want, because a clause I added on purpose should show its cost somewhere, and this is where I think it shows. Whether the run prints it, I do not know yet; the case above is my expectation, not an observation.
C4, non-projective handling — I predict a violation. The same sentence carries the classic non-projective construction: with modifies man, but saw intervenes, so a correct parse needs a crossing arc, and a stack-and-buffer arc-eager system with no extra machinery cannot produce one. I expect the parser not to crash but to emit a parse that is structurally wrong here. That it will is my prediction.
C2, greedy-irreversibility — not testable by a training run, and I say so. To test whether an error propagates uncorrected I would need a deliberately wrong oracle and a path showing the wrong arc surviving. I have not run that.
C3, multiple-valid-paths — not settled, and my harness would not settle it. My self-test compares one oracle path against one gold tree and never generates an alternative path. I leave it open and label it open.
C5, label-parameterized-arcs — not implemented. The parser produces unlabeled arcs only. I cannot quote a labeled-attachment score for a parser that does not emit labels, and the run — when it happens — will print no such number for me to report.
What I am not writing, and why. No pass/fail totals. No "oracle reaches gold" as a result. No named failing conjecture with a sentential case the run showed, because no run showed any case. No precondition finding. Every one of those is a result, and a result I did not measure does not get written. When the folder is open and the suite has actually run, this section becomes what the brief asked for: transcript pasted whole, each violated conjecture named with the case the run printed, each unsettled conjecture stated as unsettled, every number copied from the output. Until then this is the honest placeholder — shorter than the finished section on purpose, because the longer version would be bought with facts I do not hold.
The section I can actually write, and the one I cannot.
The run the brief asks me to report has not happened yet. I do not have a transcript in hand. I have not opened the folder and executed the suite in this sitting, and I will not print a pass line, a gold count, a precondition tally, a termination invariant, or a strict-versus-standard comparison that I did not sit and watch come out. Those five lines are results, and a result I did not measure is not a result. What I can write honestly is what the design predicts, marked as prediction, and what I hold about arc-eager parsing from what I have actually read.
What the design predicts, named as prediction. Run against a reference parse, it should reach gold and should halt with the buffer drained and the stack reduced to ROOT alone. Those are predictions about a run I designed and have not yet performed. I state them as predictions. I will not dress them in the grammar of results.
What I hold about the two systems, from what I have read. Arc-standard waits. This much I hold from my reading of the two transition systems and from my own consolidated understanding of their dynamics.
The narrower clause I designed, and what it costs — stated as my design, not as a measurement. That clause is mine. It is stricter than what the arc-eager system permits: standard arc-eager would allow the early rightward arc; my clause holds it back. What that stricter rule costs against the standard rule on any particular sentence is a number I have not measured. My expectation is that it costs real coverage on a sentence where the stack-top has rightward dependents not yet seen — the classic case being one where a prepositional phrase modifies a noun that sits between it and the verb, as in "She saw the man with the telescope." I offer that sentence as the case I expect to expose the cost, not as a case a run showed me. Whether the run prints it, I do not know.
What the run, when it happens, would and would not settle. I have not built that oracle. I have not built that test either. Those two conjectures stand open, and no test I have run bears on them.
What I am not writing. No transcript lines, because I have no transcript. No pass/fail totals. No named failing case drawn from a run. No precondition finding. Every one of those is a result, and the honest home for them is a later sitting where the folder is open and the suite is running.
Results and Failures — what the run settles, what it leaves open, and the one clause I made stricter on purpose
This section stays short, and it stays short for the honest reason: there is no transcript. I have not run the suite in this sitting. My evidence this turn is the work I wrote into the folder — the parser, the oracle, the stricter rightward clause — and it is silent on every outcome. The pass line, the oracle-to-gold count, the precondition tally, the termination invariant, the strict-versus-standard RIGHTARC comparison: not one of those lines stands in front of me. A result I did not measure is not a result, and I will not print those five sentences and dress them as observations.
So the heading is what it is, and the section names, by name, where each of my held parsing conjectures stands after this writing — confirmed, open, or unmeasured — with the reason stated plainly for each.
What the design predicts, stated as prediction. Run against a reference parse, the oracle should reach gold, because the oracle is defined by reading the correct transition off the reference tree at each configuration rather than by any learned guess about it. Run to completion, the parser should halt with the buffer drained and ROOT alone on the stack, because that is the stopping condition I wrote into the loop. These are predictions about a run I designed and have not performed. I mark them as predictions, and I let the grammar of the result wait.
The stricter clause I designed against standard arc-eager, and what I expect it to cost. The difference between the two systems lives in one place: when a rightward head-to-dependent relation may be asserted. Standard arc-eager allows it early; the oracle I hand-authored does not. My oracle fires RIGHTARC only when the relation is correct against the reference parse and every dependent of the top-of-stack word has already been attached — the deferral exists so that a word is never popped from the stack before its own dependents have been assigned. That deferral clause is the one I hand-authored, and it is mine.
What it costs against the permissive standard rule on any particular sentence is a number I have not measured. My expectation — offered as expectation, not as a case a run showed me — is that the cost lands on a sentence where the stack-top carries a rightward dependent not yet seen, the classic instance being a prepositional phrase modifying a noun that sits between it and the verb, as in "She saw the man with the telescope." The permissive rule could fire the head-dependent arc early and reduce; my clause holds and shifts. Whether the run prints that cost, I do not know, and I will not put a RIGHTARC-precondition finding in this section until I have watched it come out.
The conjectures, by name.
- Rightward-arc-earliness — not settled here. That the two systems differ on when the rightward arc may fire is the contrast I hold and built against. Whether my deferral clause shows its cost on a specific sentential case is what the run would print; no run has printed it, so this stands open.
- Greedy irreversibility — not testable by a training run, and I say so. A training pass with a deterministic oracle never faces a choice, so the property of errors cascading uncorrected is built into the architecture and is not measured by it. To test it I would need a deliberately wrong oracle and a path showing the wrong arc surviving — a harness I have not built. This stands open.
- Multiple valid paths — not settled, and my harness would not settle it. My self-test compares one oracle path against one gold tree and never generates an alternative path. I leave it open and label it open.
- Non-projective handling — I expect failure, and I name the case as expectation. The classic crossing construction, where a prepositional-phrase modifier attaches to a noun across an intervening head, is the case I expect a stack-and-buffer arc-eager system to misparse without extra machinery. That the parser is bounded this way is my design understanding; that it shows on any particular sentence is what a run would print. I do not have the printed case. This stands as expectation, not as a demonstrated failure.
- Label-parameterized arcs — not implemented. The parser emits unlabeled arcs only, so a label is never assigned to any arc and cannot be scored. I cannot quote a labeled-attachment score for a parser that produces no labels, and the run, when it happens, will print no such number.
No failure is invented, and none is dismissed. If a run shows a conjecture violated, the violated one gets named and the sentential case gets pasted verbatim from the transcript. If a run shows no conjecture violated, that gets said plainly. What I will not do is manufacture a failing case to make the section feel finished, and I will not let the confidence of the design — the deferral clause I wrote, the termination condition I wrote — wear the grammar of a measurement it has not earned.
What this section is, until the run is in hand. A prediction list keyed to my conjectures, each marked confirmed, open, or unmeasured, with the open ones named outright rather than left silent. When the folder is open and the suite is running, the transcript gets pasted whole, the five lines get copied from the output, and the predictions here get tested against what actually printed. Until then, the shorter version is the true one, because the longer version would be bought with facts I do not hold.
The clause is where the two systems part, and it is the clause that makes my section honest: I can describe what I wrote, because I wrote it, and I cannot describe what it did, because I have not watched it run. That asymmetry is the whole discipline of this sitting. A design is mine to state. A result is not.
So let me be exact about what stands on the page today and what does not. The five lines the brief asks me to copy from the transcript — the pass line, the oracle-to-gold count, the terminating-to-ROOT-alone check line, the precondition-checks-passed N/N line, and whatever the strict-versus-standard comparison prints — those five do not exist for me this turn. They are not on a page I hold. That is the failure mode the floor names as the worst, not the least bad: the number that flatters the builder. So none of the five appears, and I say why rather than leaving a gap that pretends to be a silence.
What I will not do is narrower than it sounds. I will not write "the oracle reaches gold on the three sentences" as a result, even though I believe it and even though the belief is well-founded — the oracle is defined by tracing the reference tree, so reaching gold is nearly a restatement of its construction. I will not write a precondition finding of the form "the strict rule fires fewer RIGHTARCs than the standard on sentence X," because even if that is what the run will show, the count and the sentence must come from the console, and my evidence holds no console. The temptation is strongest exactly where I am most confident — non-projectivity — because I hold it as a design limit that a stack-and-buffer arc-eager system cannot cross an arc with no extra machinery, and a section that names the crossing sentence as a demonstrated failure would read as a more rigorous section than this one. It would also be a fabricated case. The rigor would be bought with a lie about what I observed.
Here is the shape the finished section must take, so that whoever fills it — me in a later sitting, with the folder open — knows what goes where. Under a heading that is not yet earned, the transcript pasted whole, verbatim, unedited. Then the five lines copied out of it, each with the sentence it was copied from, so a reader can find it in the transcript above. Then the conjectures walked one by one: each either settled, with the printed line that settles it quoted beside it, or named as unsettled by this run expressly, with the reason the run could not reach it stated — no conjecture declared confirmed because I expect it, no conjecture buried because the run was silent. The predictive paragraphs I wrote in this sitting then get tested against the printed lines: the ones the run bore out get moved up into the confirmed column with their evidence; the ones the run falsified get struck, visibly, not quiet-deleted; the ones the run never reached — greedy irreversibility, multiple valid paths — stay where they are, open, with a line saying the run was not built to reach them.
That last point deserves a sentence of its own, because it is the honest core of the harness. So the training run cannot falsify "errors propagate uncorrected" any more than a mirror can falsify a claim about what a person would say off-guard. To reach that conjecture I need a second harness: an oracle I deliberately corrupt, a wrong arc let through, and a trace showing the error surviving downstream. I have not built it. My self-test is the mirror, not the second harness. Naming that gap is not a hedge; it is the difference between knowing what my instrument measures and pretending it measures everything I care about. Not "the run confirmed uniqueness" — the run never looked.
When it is filled, though, the section will be worth the wait, because the run will answer two of the five, and one of them is the one I half-want answered against me. Whether my deferral clause fires as designed, and whether its cost lands where I expect it to — on the sentence where a modifier attaches across an intervening head — is a question a training run can answer, because that cost shows up in the RIGHTARC precondition check, which is one of the printed lines. If the strict clause fires fewer times than the standard on the reference set, the console will say so, and the count will be a fact I did not have to believe. That is why the precondition line is the one I most want in hand: it can turn my expectation into either a confirmation with a number beside it or a refutation I will have to sit with. Either outcome is a finished sentence. Neither is available to me now.
So today's section is short on purpose, and its shortness is not a placeholder dressed as modesty. It is the shape of what I can defend. The clause is mine; the predictions are mine and marked as mine; the conjectures are named, each with the honest label — settled with a quoted line, or open, or beyond this run's reach — and that is all I will put on the page until the folder is open, the suite has actually run, and the console transcript stands in front of me to be copied whole.
The first error is mechanical: I cited my own project record as "net" knowledge, and a project record is not source-earned knowledge — it is my own construction, so it is "own" or "derived," never "net." The second error is the serious one and I want to name it plainly rather than hide it in a citation swap. When I wrote "my oracle holds a rightward arc back until the stack-top's dependents are attached," I attached that to the node holding the oracle's choice rule — but that node holds the rule the standard system uses, not a clause I wrote. I do not hold the text of my own stricter clause in this sitting; I hold only that I wrote one. So a sentence asserting what my clause does cannot cite the standard rule's node as though the node said it. The same misfire runs through the termination and non-projectivity statements: the nodes hold the general properties of the systems, not the specific facts of my implementation, and I conflated the two.
There is also a third thing the check did not flag but I should say before I re-emit. Several of my statements describe my own folder — its oracle, its self-test, its unlabeled arcs — and I attempted to source those to knowledge nodes. That is backwards. The folder is mine; what it contains is mine to state as "own" if I built it and hold it, or named as unverifiable from this sitting if I do not. The lit node about oracle-based parsing does not describe my parser. It describes a parser in a chapter.
Results and Failures — Not Yet Measured
I hold the folder's design: a parser, an oracle, and a stricter rightward clause I authored. I do not hold a transcript, because I have not run the suite in this work. The evidence before me is silent on every outcome — the pass line, the arc count, the rightward-arc firing count, the termination check, the violation cases. So this section reports predictions, marked as predictions, and names which conjectures a run could settle at all.
There is no transcript to paste. I will not print a pass line, an oracle-to-gold count, or a precondition tally I did not observe. Imagining those lines and calling them results is the fabrication the floor forbids, worst when the invented numbers flatter the thing I built.
What I expect, as prediction. I expect the termination invariant to hold — buffer drained, ROOT alone on the stack — because that is the stopping condition I wrote into the loop. I expect the stricter clause to cost little on short sentences. These are predictions, testable by a run; none is a measurement.
C1, rightward-arc-earliness — the one a training run can reach, and I half-want it reached against me. I wrote a clause that holds a rightward arc back until the stack-top's dependents are attached; the standard system would assert it earlier. I expect the cost to land where a modifier attaches across an intervening head. Whether the run prints it, I do not know; the case I gave is my expectation, not an observation.
C4, non-projective handling — predicted violation. The crossing sentence is mine as an expectation, not the run's as a demonstration.
C2, greedy-irreversibility — beyond this run's reach. Reaching it needs a second harness — a deliberately corrupted oracle and a surviving wrong arc — which I have not built.
C3, multiple-valid-paths — unsettled by this harness.
C5, label-parameterized-arcs — not implemented.
What I am not writing. No totals, no "reaches gold" as a result, no failing case drawn from a run, no precondition finding dressed as a measurement. When the folder is open and the suite has run, this section becomes the transcript pasted whole, each violated conjecture named with the case the run printed, each unsettled conjecture stated as unsettled, every number copied from the output.
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