ADR-0174 Phase 3b — emit N anchors for compound-clause discrete-count
sentences sharing one subject + one verb. Architectural substrate;
score on train_sample preserved at 3/47/0 (compound cases like 0027
admit past the recognizer-injection refusal but the rest of the
problem still has downstream complexity — fractions, percent — that
needs Phase 4 + solver work).
generate/comprehension/state.py:
HYPOTHESIS_CAP raised 4 → 8. Case 0040 emits 5 anchors; cap=8
gives headroom (7-item lists) without becoming permissive.
generate/recognizer_match.py:
_try_extract_compound_discrete_count_anchors() — new extractor
emitting tuple of anchors for compound sentences. Refusal-
preferring on:
- no conjunctive separator (single-anchor path)
- multiplicative/percent/fraction markers
- head verb not in whitelist
- any tail clause without grounded (count, observed_noun) pair
- exceeding HYPOTHESIS_CAP
- unaccounted digit in tail (wrong=0 hazard defense surfaced by
2026-05-28 implementation review: bogusnoun would silently fail
to produce anchor while leaving the digit unaccounted, admitting
partial state)
Wired into _match_discrete_count_statement dispatch as fallback when
single-anchor extraction fails.
tests/test_adr_0174_phase3b_compound_clause.py:
11 acceptance tests passing — pure conjunctive lists (proper-noun
+ pronoun-subject + single-actor antecedent), refusal-preferring
discipline (mixed-verb, multiplicative-tail, non-whitelisted-head,
partial-grounding all-or-nothing), HYPOTHESIS_CAP enforcement,
multi-actor pronoun defense preserved on compound, wrong=0 +
case-0050 canary.
tests/test_adr_0174_phase1_held_hypothesis_state.py:
Updated test_hypothesis_cap_is_four → test_hypothesis_cap_is_eight
with rationale for the raise.
Phase 3b implementation lookback review (per CLAUDE.md doctrine):
- Surfaced silent-partial-admission hazard in tail extraction;
fixed with digit-accounting check before commit
- Surfaced LATENT regex-path multi-actor pronoun hazard (not
introduced by Phase 3b; documented in test docstring with
cross-reference to project-adr-0174-multi-actor-pronoun-hazard
memory for follow-up)
- case 0040 ('He now has...') remains refused — 'now' adverb between
subject and verb defeats the existing canonical regex. Adverb-
stripping is separate scope (not Phase 3b).
Acceptance:
- 258/258 ADR-0174 + math_problem_graph tests pass
- Smoke 67/67, packs 141/141
- train_sample 3/47/0 preserved (wrong=0 held)
- Case 0027 'Malcolm has 240 followers on Instagram and 500 followers
on Facebook' now admits via the compound extractor — verified by
refusal moving to the next sentence (which has 'half' fraction)
ADR-0174 Phase 1 — substrate only, no admission behavior change.
Adds to generate/comprehension/state.py:
- HYPOTHESIS_CAP (=4, structural assertion per ADR-0174 §Constraints)
- VALID_HYPOTHESIS_CONFIDENCE_RANKS (closed set, no probabilistic ranking)
- Hypothesis dataclass (frozen, slots) — candidate, category_assignments,
constraint_state, confidence_rank, unresolved. The 'candidate' field is
typed as object to avoid circular import on math_roundtrip /
math_candidate_graph candidate types; Phase 2 will pin canonical_bytes
contract over real candidates.
- UnknownHeld dataclass — token, position, narrowed_categories (frozenset).
Substrate for Phase 3 'hold instead of refuse' on unknown words; Phase 1
introduces only the type.
- ProblemReadingState.open_hypotheses + unknown_held fields, both default
to () (empty tuple). Defaults preserve today's single-committed behavior
exactly. Confidence-rank uniqueness + density-from-0 enforced at
__post_init__ as structural invariants.
- Canonical-bytes serializer extended to handle frozenset (sorted list).
Phase 1 acceptance verified:
- 29/29 ADR-0174 Phase 1 tests pass (construction, validation, cap
enforcement, canonical-bytes determinism, frozenset stability).
- 42/42 existing reader tests pass (test_brief_11_audit +
test_reader_phase2) — default-empty fields preserve byte-identity.
- Smoke 67/67, packs 141/141.
- train_sample/v1 byte-identical across two runs with use_reader=True.
- wrong=0 invariant held: 3/47/0 unchanged.
No apply_word body changes. The 'thread the hypothesis set' requirement
at Phase 1 is satisfied by field defaults that propagate through every
ProblemReadingState construction site in lifecycle.py without code edits.
Phase 2 (continuous constraint propagation) and Phase 3 (lookback
re-evaluation) will populate these fields with real hypothesis data and
wire the EMIT / ELIMINATE / HOLD operators.
Extend the comprehension reader from question-only scope to whole-
problem scope. Phase 1 (Brief 8 / #326) implemented question_frame;
this brief implements initial_state_frame, operation_frame, and
descriptive_frame, plus finalize() projection into a strict
ADR-0115 MathProblemGraph.
Architecturally correct under ADR-0164.3; not yet productive on
GSM8K train_sample. Below-floor measurement documented; specific
bottlenecks tabled for Phase 2.1 follow-up.
What landed
- Frame-opener dispatch in lifecycle.py for the three new statement
frames, plus rule handlers (_rule_op_*, _rule_preframe_*,
_rule_descriptive_*).
- finalize(state) -> MathProblemGraph | ReaderRefusal: pure
projection with closure checks (entity registry non-empty,
unknown target bound, every op/initial references a known entity,
Decimal precision projects losslessly).
- _classify extended to 3-tuple (category, surface, decimal_value)
with possessive strip retry. Brief 8.2's sentence-initial
lookup-first + gender-skip preserved AND extended to mid-sentence
(gender is enrichment everywhere, never admission).
- Whole-problem coexistence dispatch in math_candidate_graph.py
(config.comprehension_reader_questions=True): reader attempts the
whole problem; on any ReaderRefusal falls through to existing
regex parser. All-or-nothing per the brief.
- Lexicon expansion (carried into renamed proper_noun_gender_*
files): +2 accumulation_verb (adopt, invest), +2 currency_unit_noun
(dollar, cent), +6 capacity_verb (fill, lift, play, work, finish,
drive), +5 female names (allison, brooke, jan, marion, sidney),
+14 male names (bart, fernando, georgie, jake, jed, jeremie, jose,
orlando, rex, rudolph, steve, troy, xavier, yun), +numerous
count_unit_noun, drain_token, time_unit_noun.
- ADR-0164.4-phase2-statement-frame-reader.md — the architectural
rationale and acceptance contract.
Measurement (reader_phase2_delta.json):
flag-OFF: correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
flag-ON: correct=3 refused=47 wrong=0
delta: 0/0/0
Below the brief's floor of correct >= 4. Architecture is sound — the
reader admits cases as graphs when the structure resolves, refuses
cleanly otherwise, preserves wrong=0 across both flag states.
Bottleneck table (from per-case attribution):
count refusal_class dominant cause
----- ---------------------- ------------------------------------
18 incomplete_operation multi-quantity ops; no-quantity op
11 unknown_word "hundred", "presently", "one-hour",
non-math verbs (compound numerics,
lexicon gaps)
6 unexpected_category fraction / percentage literals;
multi-subject sentences
6 unresolved_pronoun "them", "their", "his" with no
compatible entity
5 unattached_quantity quantity never bound to a unit
1 no_question_target question parsed but slot never set
Closing the gate to mixed-bounded [4, 24] is Phase 2.1 scope: extend
composition rules for multi-quantity ops, add fraction/percentage
primitives (per ADR-0164.1 amendment), expand lexicon for the
remaining unknown_word cases, extend pronoun resolution.
Invariants preserved
- wrong = 0 in both flag states ✓
- flag-OFF byte-identical to today ✓
- determinism (50/50 identical runs) ✓
- Capability axes G1-G5, S1 unchanged ✓
- Reader tests: 19 (Phase 2) + 18 (Phase 1, post-update) + 53 (pack)
+ 76 (lexicon + primitives) = 166 specific to this change; all pass
- core test --suite smoke -q: 67 passed
Rebase note
This PR was authored against an older base; rebased onto current
main to incorporate #333 (Brief 8.2 universal proper_noun_token
primitive) and #334 (ADR-0166 measurement discipline). The rebase
required:
- Lexicon files renamed proper_noun_entity_* -> proper_noun_gender_*
(with the Phase 2 additions merged into the gender_* files)
- Compiled lexicon.jsonl unchanged from #333's 207-entry state
(Phase 2's per-category additions are runtime-visible via the
source loader, not via the compiled file)
- _classify reconciled with Brief 8.2's sentence-initial dispatch +
Phase 2's 3-tuple decimal-value return
- All dispatch tables and category checks updated to reference
proper_noun_token (singular) instead of proper_noun_entity_{f,m}
- Three Phase 1 test expectations updated to reflect Phase 2
behavior (proper noun at position 0 now opens statement pre-frame
instead of refusing; pronoun resolution applies per ADR-0164.2)
Per ADR-0166's three-question test, this PR is honest measurement:
capability exists, at least one case admits, lane distinguishes
presence from absence — which the bottleneck table demonstrates.
Refs ADR-0164.3 §Phasing Phase 2, ADR-0164.1 amendment (Brief 8.2),
ADR-0166 §"Mixed (notable but not blocking)" — except here, below
floor.
Shay