The multiplicative comparative frame (PR-5c) admits exactly one shape —
Mul(Symbol, Literal), a unit-bearing symbol times a dimensionless integer
(count × scalar = count). That contract was held by OMISSION: to_relation's
`case _: return None` refused every other Mul shape, but no test would fail
if the guard were loosened, and no doc stated where the guarantee lives.
This makes the obligation meaningfully-failing (CLAUDE.md Schema-Defined
Proof Obligations), with no runtime logic change:
- test_mul_projection_admits_only_symbol_times_literal — Mul(Symbol, Symbol)
(a count×count product), a commuted factor, and compound factors all REFUSE
(to_relation → None). Verified to go red when a Mul(Symbol, Symbol) projection
arm is injected.
- test_literal_factor_is_dimensionless_by_construction — Literal has exactly
one field (value); a unit-bearing literal multiplication is unrepresentable,
not merely unchecked.
- test_scalar_only_guard_is_load_bearing — check_admissibility's `multiply`
dispatch products operand units generally (count×count → count², no refusal),
so it would NOT catch the masquerade. The projection arm is the sole boundary.
Docstrings on Mul and to_relation now state the scalar-only contract and that
it is enforced at the projection boundary, not in the dimensional checker.
Gates unchanged: setup-oracle 15-case 15/0/0 and R1 2/0/8 (setup_wrong=0);
77 expr/admissibility/reader/setup-oracle tests + 56 architectural invariants
green. No serving path touched.
The first capability slice on the R1 arc, gated by the setup-oracle: turn the
"twice / N times as many" reading from REFUSED into a correct setup, without a single
misread. Builds on the typed IR (PR-4) and the R1 gold (PR-5b).
- IR: a Mul(symbol, literal-factor) node — to_canonical_string "ref * factor",
operation_kind "multiply", dependencies {ref}, to_relation -> times_as_many. The
product keeps the symbol's unit (count * scalar = count), admitted by the REAL
check_admissibility multiply path (the literal factor is dimensionless, not a dep).
- Reader: a multiplicative template "Y has <factor> as many <unit> as X" (factor word:
twice/double/triple/quadruple) and "Y has <N> times as many <unit> as X", checked
BEFORE the digit gate (the factor may be a word). 'half' (a /2) is deliberately
deferred — divide-by-literal is a separate admissibility path.
- setup-oracle: relation_signature now canonicalizes times_as_many.
Setup-oracle R1 result: 2 setup_correct (r1-01 twice; r1-05 the multi-step chain
ivy/jon=3*ivy/kim=jon+2), 0 setup_WRONG, 8 setup_refused. Every hard negative stays a
safe refusal: missing-base (Rosa ungrounded), ambiguous referent, distractor, inverse,
partition, 'altogether'/'in total' phrasings, and 'half' (divide). wrong=0 held through
the first capability addition.
Gates green: setup-oracle R1 setup_wrong=0; 15-case setup gate 15/15 setup_wrong=0;
relational_metric answer lane 15/15 wrong=0; binding-graph admissibility + realize +
architectural invariants + chat-runtime + pipeline (122+). No serving path touched (this
reader feeds the relational_metric / setup-oracle lanes, not the candidate-graph serving).
Internal hygiene + future-proofing. No serving path, no new capability — the 15-case
reader is structurally cleaner and the projection no longer recovers meaning by
re-parsing a string.
- New generate/quantitative_expr.py: a typed Expr IR (Literal/Symbol/Add/Sub/SumOf) with
to_canonical_string (BYTE-IDENTICAL to the legacy "ref + delta" / "ref - delta" / "a + b"
format), dependencies, operation_kind, and to_relation (the structured projection).
- The reader builds the Expr per equation as the SOURCE OF MEANING; rhs_canonical,
dependencies, and operation_kind are all DERIVED from it (BoundEquation stays a string —
the binding-graph's deliberate decoupling layer is untouched). QuantComprehension carries
the IR as equation_exprs.
- to_relational_metric reads the IR via to_relation — the rhs_canonical string-reparse is
GONE. An unhandled equation shape refuses (None).
- The dead _rhs string builder is removed.
Gates held: relational_metric answer lane 15/15 wrong=0; setup-oracle 15/15 setup_wrong=0;
malformed-target refusals intact; realize-binding-graph + architectural invariants green
(95). rhs_canonical is byte-identical, so the binding-graph + downstream hashes are
unchanged. No model change.
This is the foundation PR-5's R1 frames build on — structured equations, not string parsing
— and only after independent R1 gold is hand-authored.
