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Record W4244928380 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2007.0820

Into the Ravine (review)

2007· article· en· W4244928380 on OpenAlex
Karen Coats

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.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAdventureHERORavineHistoryDanceWhite (mutation)FrontierComedyBurlesqueArt historyArtVisual artsArchaeologyLiterature

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Into the Ravine Karen Coats Scrimger, Richard Into the Ravine. Tundra, 2007260p Paper ed. ISBN 978-0-88776-822-4$9.95 R Gr. 6-9 After a storm knocks down some poplars near their fort, three thirteen-year-old boys, Jules, Chris, and Cory, decide there is only one thing to be done: build a raft and float down the creek behind their house into the river. Along the way, they meet with a host of quirky adventures, finally ending up in a tricky situation involving a boa constrictor, some smuggled emeralds, and a South American gangster. Each adventure can be read for its metaphoric significance in the passage from childhood to adulthood, but it's hard to bother with that when the situations themselves are so full of rich comedy. Jules is an incisive and witty narrator, playing with words and fantasies as he manages to tell the story of their raft adventure in the style of a tall tale. Woven into the mythic adventure are subtle commentaries on the state of contemporary life in a Canadian suburb, with the huge disparities between the very rich and very poor, the persistent problems of race, and the tension between wild spaces and urban development and detritus. Scrimger is a master at writing boy; without overt signaling, he pinpoints the anxieties, strengths, preoccupations, and weirdnesses that belong particularly to the kind of creature who floats down the river with his friends on a hot summer day, gets his first kiss, and becomes a hero, all on his way to becoming, if not a man, then at least an older and wiser boy. Copyright © 2007 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.481
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0040.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it