crates/weksa/src/lower.rs

@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ pub fn lower(
     {
         return unrendered("features");
     }
+    if input.discourse().addressee_consent.is_some() {
+        return unrendered("addressee consent");
+    }
     if !input.relations().is_empty() {
         return unrendered("relations");
     }

crates/weksa/src/packet.rs

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ pub use crate::inventory::InvId;
 use crate::inventory::OptionLabel;
 
 /// Bumped by a commit that changes these types; the published schema moves with it.
-pub const SCHEMA_VERSION: u32 = 4;
+pub const SCHEMA_VERSION: u32 = 5;
 
 /// Id of a referent or predication within one packet: `n<k>`, `k` a canonical
 /// decimal 1..=9999.
@@ -261,6 +261,13 @@ pub struct Discourse {
     /// Speech-act id.
     pub speech_act: Option<InvId>,
     pub addressee: Option<NodeId>,
+    /// The predication the addressee asked for or agreed to. A fact about what
+    /// the addressee did, never about how the line sounds, so it is no feature:
+    /// only a source that saw the request may set it (V15), it needs an
+    /// addressee (V14) and names a predication (V14), and a lowering that
+    /// speaks for the addressee's request ("you asked her to") reads it here
+    /// and refuses without it.
+    pub addressee_consent: Option<NodeId>,
     pub features: Vec<FeatureValue>,
 }
 
@@ -385,6 +392,7 @@ pub fn proof_packet() -> Packet {
         discourse: Discourse {
             speech_act: Some(id("speech_act:5")),
             addressee: Some(node("n1")),
+            addressee_consent: None,
             features: vec![],
         },
         referents: vec![

crates/weksa/src/validate.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 //! returns `Ok(())` or the refusals. [`LoweringInput`], the only thing a
 //! lowerer sees, comes from `PacketStore::admit` alone, which builds it through
 //! the crate-private `admissible`. The stance is checked like every feature
-//! list, in slot `Stance`. The rules are V1..V8 and V10..V13: the shape of an id
+//! list, in slot `Stance`. The rules are V1..V8 and V10..V15: the shape of an id
 //! or a grade is its type's parse, not a rule, so V9 is retired and not
 //! renumbered. V13 guards the one other way features reach a lowering view:
 //! [`LoweringInput::with_scene`].
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ use std::fmt;
 use crate::inventory::{Family, InvId, Inventory, InventoryEntry, Slot, ValueKind};
 use crate::packet::{
     Constraints, Context, Discourse, Extension, FeatValue, FeatureValue, NodeId, Packet,
-    PacketKind, Predication, Referent, Relation, SCHEMA_VERSION, Stance,
+    PacketKind, Predication, ProvenanceSource, Referent, Relation, SCHEMA_VERSION, Stance,
 };
 
 /// A broken rule, named.
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ pub enum Refusal {
     /// state the speaker's relation to the addressee, so with none they
     /// describe nobody.
     V13SceneWithoutAddressee,
+    /// V14: an addressee consent that no addressee can have given, or that
+    /// names a node that is not a predication. It is what the addressee asked
+    /// for or agreed to, an act, so a referent cannot be its object.
+    V14ConsentWithoutAddressee,
+    V14ConsentNotAPredication { id: NodeId },
+    /// V15: an addressee consent set by a source that only read wording.
+    /// A decomposition of text, or imported corpus text, sees "you asked her
+    /// to" as words; only authoring or game telemetry saw the request.
+    V15ConsentSource { source: ProvenanceSource },
 }
 
 impl Refusal {
@@ -90,6 +99,10 @@ impl Refusal {
             | Refusal::V11DuplicateRole { .. } => "V11",
             Refusal::V12TooManyNodes { .. } => "V12",
             Refusal::V13SceneWithoutAddressee => "V13",
+            Refusal::V14ConsentWithoutAddressee | Refusal::V14ConsentNotAPredication { .. } => {
+                "V14"
+            }
+            Refusal::V15ConsentSource { .. } => "V15",
         }
     }
 }
@@ -156,6 +169,7 @@ pub(crate) fn admissible(
     let nodes = check_nodes(packet, &mut out);
     check_refs(packet, &nodes, &mut out);
     check_repeats(packet, &mut out);
+    check_consent(packet, &nodes, &mut out);
     if inventory.has_revision(packet.inventory_rev) {
         Inventoried {
             inv: inventory,
@@ -208,6 +222,9 @@ fn check_refs(packet: &Packet, nodes: &BTreeSet<NodeId>, out: &mut Vec<Refusal>)
     if let Some(a) = &packet.discourse.addressee {
         need(a, "addressee");
     }
+    if let Some(c) = &packet.discourse.addressee_consent {
+        need(c, "addressee consent");
+    }
     for (list, at) in node_lists(packet) {
         for id in list {
             need(id, at);
@@ -215,6 +232,26 @@ fn check_refs(packet: &Packet, nodes: &BTreeSet<NodeId>, out: &mut Vec<Refusal>)
     }
 }
 
+/// V14 and V15: the addressee's consent is a typed fact with one origin. A
+/// dangling id is V4's, so V14 judges only a node that exists.
+fn check_consent(packet: &Packet, nodes: &BTreeSet<NodeId>, out: &mut Vec<Refusal>) {
+    let Some(consent) = &packet.discourse.addressee_consent else {
+        return;
+    };
+    if packet.discourse.addressee.is_none() {
+        out.push(Refusal::V14ConsentWithoutAddressee);
+    }
+    if nodes.contains(consent) && !packet.predications.iter().any(|p| &p.id == consent) {
+        out.push(Refusal::V14ConsentNotAPredication {
+            id: consent.clone(),
+        });
+    }
+    match packet.provenance.source {
+        ProvenanceSource::Authored | ProvenanceSource::GameTelemetry => {}
+        source => out.push(Refusal::V15ConsentSource { source }),
+    }
+}
+
 fn node_lists(packet: &Packet) -> [(&Vec<NodeId>, &'static str); 3] {
     [
         (&packet.context.participants, "participant"),

crates/weksa/tests/common/mod.rs

@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ pub fn good() -> Packet {
         discourse: Discourse {
             speech_act: Some(iv(WARN)),
             addressee: Some(nd("n1")),
+            addressee_consent: None,
             features: vec![FeatureValue {
                 feature: iv(HEDGE),
                 value: FeatValue::Grade(grade(300)),

crates/weksa/tests/entities.rs

@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ fn packet_entities_resolve() {
 
 #[test]
 fn packet_schema_v2() {
-    assert_eq!(SCHEMA_VERSION, 4);
+    assert_eq!(SCHEMA_VERSION, 5);
     let mut p = good();
     p.schema_version = 2;
     let Err(refused) = validate(&p, &inventory()) else {

crates/weksa/tests/lower.rs

@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ fn a_packet_carrying_what_the_lowerer_does_not_render_is_refused() {
             filler,
         })
     };
+    let consent = |p: &mut Packet| p.discourse.addressee_consent = Some(nd("n5"));
     let lone_referent = |p: &mut Packet| {
         let mut r = p.referents[0].clone();
         r.id = nd("n99");
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ fn a_packet_carrying_what_the_lowerer_does_not_render_is_refused() {
     for (what, edit) in [
         ("features", &discourse as &dyn Fn(&mut Packet)),
         ("features", &predication),
+        ("addressee consent", &consent),
         ("relations", &relation),
         ("extensions", &extension),
         ("no predication", &no_predication),

crates/weksa/tests/stores.rs

@@ -989,14 +989,14 @@ fn packet_admission_goes_through_the_validator() {
     let mut w = world();
     let mut store = PacketStore::open(&w.dir.path().join("p.cc")).unwrap();
     let mut bad = good();
-    bad.schema_version = 5;
+    bad.schema_version = 6;
     match store.admit(bad, &w.inventory, &w.corpus, &w.entities) {
         Err(e @ StoreError::Invalid(_)) => {
             assert!(e.to_string().contains("V1"), "{e}");
             let StoreError::Invalid(r) = e else {
                 unreachable!()
             };
-            assert_eq!(r, vec![Refusal::V1SchemaVersion { found: 5 }]);
+            assert_eq!(r, vec![Refusal::V1SchemaVersion { found: 6 }]);
         }
         other => panic!("{other:?}"),
     }

crates/weksa/tests/validate.rs

@@ -683,3 +683,62 @@ fn v11_role_repeat_in_one_predication_refused() {
     ok.predications.push(second);
     assert_eq!(refusals(&ok), vec![]);
 }
+
+// The addressee's consent: which predication the addressee asked for, set only
+// by a source that saw the request.
+
+fn consenting() -> Packet {
+    let mut p = good();
+    p.discourse.addressee_consent = Some(nd("n2"));
+    p
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn consent_to_a_predication_by_an_authored_or_telemetry_source_passes() {
+    assert_eq!(refusals(&consenting()), vec![]);
+    let mut p = consenting();
+    p.provenance.source = ProvenanceSource::GameTelemetry;
+    assert_eq!(refusals(&p), vec![]);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn consent_needs_an_addressee() {
+    let mut p = consenting();
+    p.discourse.addressee = None;
+    assert_eq!(refusals(&p), vec![Refusal::V14ConsentWithoutAddressee]);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn consent_names_a_predication_not_a_referent() {
+    let mut p = consenting();
+    p.discourse.addressee_consent = Some(nd("n1"));
+    assert_eq!(
+        refusals(&p),
+        vec![Refusal::V14ConsentNotAPredication { id: nd("n1") }]
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn consent_to_nothing_is_dangling_only() {
+    let mut p = consenting();
+    p.discourse.addressee_consent = Some(nd("n99"));
+    assert_eq!(
+        refusals(&p),
+        vec![Refusal::V4DanglingRef {
+            id: nd("n99"),
+            at: "addressee consent"
+        }]
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_source_that_only_read_wording_cannot_set_consent() {
+    for source in [
+        ProvenanceSource::ModelDecomposition,
+        ProvenanceSource::ImportedCorpus,
+    ] {
+        let mut p = consenting();
+        p.provenance.source = source;
+        assert_eq!(refusals(&p), vec![Refusal::V15ConsentSource { source }]);
+    }
+}

docs/interlingua-standard.md

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Packet
   id, schema_version, inventory_rev, kind
   provenance   { source, corpus_item, encoder, confidence }
   context      { setting, medium, participants, audience }
-  discourse    { speech_act, addressee, features }
+  discourse    { speech_act, addressee, addressee_consent, features }
   referents    [ { id, kind, concept, entity, features } ]
   predications [ { id, concept, frame, roles: [ { role, filler } ], features } ]
   relations    [ { relation, from, to, features } ]
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ names the rule.
 - V1: `schema_version` is the version these types define.
 - V2: at least one of `referents`, `predications`, `relations` is present.
 - V3: a node id appears once across referents and predications.
-- V4: every role filler, relation end, addressee, participant, audience member
-  and preserved node names a node.
+- V4: every role filler, relation end, addressee, addressee consent,
+  participant, audience member and preserved node names a node.
 - V5: every inventory id resolves at the packet's `inventory_rev`: introduced
   at or before it, and not retired at or before it.
 - V6: an inventory id is of the family its slot takes.
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ names the rule.
   predication's roles.
 - V12: a packet has at most 64 referents, predications and relations together
   (a calibration constant, capacity and not meaning).
+- V14: an `addressee_consent` needs an `addressee` and names a predication.
+- V15: an `addressee_consent` is set only by provenance `Authored` or
+  `GameTelemetry`; a decomposition of text or imported corpus text cannot mint
+  it.
 
 V9 is retired and not renumbered: the form of a key or a grade is its type, and
 an extension key's family is V6. `PacketStore::admit` returns the lowering view of a
@@ -189,7 +193,11 @@ ids.
 Why the packet is said: `speech_act` is a speech-act id, `addressee` a node id,
 and `features` carry source-side nuance on content (hedge, certainty, irony and
 whatever the inventory grows). This is source-side communicative pressure, not
-target-language register.
+target-language register. `addressee_consent` is no feature: it names the
+predication the addressee asked for or agreed to, a fact about what the
+addressee did. The English lowerer renders no consent and refuses a packet that
+carries one; a row that speaks for the request ("you asked her to") reads it
+and refuses without it.
 
 ### `stance`
 

schemas/cultnet/weksa.interlingua_packet.schema.json

@@ -164,6 +164,17 @@
             }
           ]
         },
+        "addressee_consent": {
+          "description": "The predication the addressee asked for or agreed to. A fact about what\nthe addressee did, never about how the line sounds, so it is no feature:\nonly a source that saw the request may set it (V15), it needs an\naddressee (V14) and names a predication (V14), and a lowering that\nspeaks for the addressee's request (\"you asked her to\") reads it here\nand refuses without it.",
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "$ref": "#/$defs/NodeId"
+            },
+            {
+              "type": "null"
+            }
+          ]
+        },
         "features": {
           "type": "array",
           "items": {