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Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cet article examine les reprises en they d’un antécédent à morphologie de singulier (de type : After a doctor graduates from medical school, they must take a licensing exam). Son but est de rendre compte des facteurs qui permettent de passer outre les contraintes syntaxiques d’accord en nombre. They reprend un antécédent à valeur générique et le plus souvent épicène. L’anglais ne disposant pas de pronom épicène, le choix s’est porté vers un pronom qui a l’avantage d’inclure masculin et féminin mais l’inconvénient de déplacer la référence vers le générique. Le choix de ce pronom est lié non seulement à un fonctionnement linguistique mais à des considérations sociologiques et stylistiques. Des stratégies pour éviter l’emploi de they existent ; mais elles sont peu satisfaisantes, ou bien elles provoquent un changement dans la construction de la référence.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it