probes: 5

The exact question asked of a corpus, kept verbatim (code column): a Python regex on one document, a SPARQL query on a public endpoint, a shell request. result_count/result_of is the re-run figure on result_date; matches_excerpt says whether that figure is the one quoted in the observation (0 = differs, both kept).

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id form_id form_name file kind corpus_id written run result_count result_of result_date matches_excerpt note code
5 form-022 Pronominal references probes/2026-08/line-022.py python corpus-europe-pmc-jats-2023-2026 2026-08-08 python3 tools/run_probe.py probes/2026-08/line-022.py <dir with the 272 .xml> 212 272 2026-09-09 1   """Fault Atlas probe — catalogue line 22 (form-022). Question: does a sentence open on a bare pronoun (It / They / These / Those / This) whose referent must be resolved? Rewritten 2026-09-09 as a standalone probe from the August 2026 campaign script (the original was an inline loop, one counter per line, same regexes). A carrier here is a document with a bare-pronoun sentence opening. A probe answers one question on one JATS XML file: "is this fault here, and where?" It repairs nothing and decides nothing. Returns a list of excerpts, empty if absent. Run on the reproducible corpus (see corpora/europe-pmc-jats-2023-2026-272.json): python3 tools/run_probe.py probes/2026-08/line-022.py <dir with the 272 .xml> Result (re-run 2026-09-09): 212/272 documents open at least one sentence on a bare pronoun, 3,260 occurrences; 49/272 also carry an explicit lexical reprise ("the latter", "these authors"). Same figures as the excerpt. """ import re, collections SONDES = {} def sonde(ligne, nom): def deco(f): SONDES[ligne] = (nom, f); return f return deco def corps(x): m = re.search(r'(?s)<body\b.*?</body>', x) return m.group(0) if m else '' def txt(x): return re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', re.sub(r'<[^>]+>', ' ', x)) REP_EN = re.compile(r'\b(the latter|the former|this group|these authors|the same ' r'(?:group|authors|patients?)|said (?:company|study))\b', re.I) PRON_SUJ = re.compile(r'(?<=[.;] )(It|They|These|Those|This)\b') @sonde(22, "pronominal reprise: a sentence opens on a bare pronoun") def d22(x): t = txt(corps(x) or x) pro = PRON_SUJ.findall(t) rep = REP_EN.findall(t) if not pro: return [] out = [f"pronoun-subject x{len(pro)}"] if rep: out.append("lexical reprise: " + " | ".join(sorted(set(rep))[:3])) return out