Recovers the multi-word-NP cases the reader previously refused, by adopting ONE
principled canonicalization contract (evals/comprehension/CANONICALIZATION.md) that
the reader AND the gold lanes both follow — so a committed answer can only match
gold or refuse, never silently mean something else.
Contract: a noun-phrase slot -> tokens lowercased, joined with "_"; a plural class
slot singularizes its head first ("metal objects"->"metal_object",
"North station"->"north_station", "Level one"->"level_one"). JOIN is chosen over
head-word-only ("metal objects"->"metal") because head-word-only is
information-destroying — it collapses "metal objects" and "metal tools" into one
false identity, itself a wrong=0 hazard.
reader.py: slot-based templates chunk multi-token NPs (_chunk / _chunk_class
replace the single-token _one / _one_class). Reserved-function-word guard fires only
INSIDE a multi-token slot (a lone "A" item is content, not the article). Still
parse-or-refuse: reserved-word leaks ("Compare beta with beta in the same order"),
non-pluralizable class heads (adjectival "trained"), and the ambiguous adjacent
two-NP subset query ("Are all <Xs> <Ys>?") all REFUSE.
gold (the contract update, logic-preserving — only term NAMES change):
- sy-v1-0008: metal/soft -> metal_object/soft_object (was head-word-only)
- to-v1-0005: red -> red_rank (was head-word-only)
- to-v1-0004: prose made internally consistent ("is after", "north station") +
north -> north_station (original prose used "North station" in the fact but
"north" in the query — a latent inconsistency)
- to-v1-0007: already conformed (level_one…), no change
Gold-only integrity runners stay 8/8 both lanes (structure+query+gold consistent).
Scores: set_membership 8/8, syllogism 6/8->7/8, total_ordering 4/8->7/8, all
wrong=0. Capability index re-frozen: score 0.814356 -> 0.917231, breadth 6,
wrong_total 0, digest 13d7db6c…
Tests: reader chunking + refusal tests; multi-word generative round-trip added to
the wrong=0 property suite (verified to BITE under a head-word-only mutation —
collapsed ids produce a wrong verdict the test catches); pinned counts updated.
100 comprehension/capability targeted + 87 smoke green.