README.md

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ addressee, and none for an above-status in-group addressee below intimacy 700 (`
 an in-group addressee at intimacy 700 or more, whatever the status). Two entries for the above-status
 cases were withdrawn: a paired measure found they made the lowerer match the reference register less
 often, and they stay out until a native reader attests them.
+ja-JP `:5` (hedging), `:7` (affection) and `:8` (restrained sadness) carry certainty and restraint conditions, through `AtMostOrUnset` bounds (an unrated certainty or restraint does not defeat them), so the hedging, certainty, affection, restraint and sadness entries never co-select on the pairs `:5`/`:6`, `:4`/`:7`, `:6`/`:7` and `:6`/`:8`; the store has no retire, so that was a rebuild of `data/ontology/ontology.cc` with the ja-JP text unchanged.
 
 For the first AquaSynth speech-training handoff, see
 [Tiny PanPhon v0.1 Speech Curriculum](./examples/speech-training/tiny-panphon-v0.1/README.md).

crates/weksa/src/ontology.rs

@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ pub enum Test {
     AtLeast(Grade),
     AtMost(Grade),
     Is(FeatValue),
+    /// Holds when the feature is absent or a grade at most `g`: a bound that
+    /// costs nothing where the feature is unrated. `AtMost` still fails on an
+    /// absent feature.
+    AtMostOrUnset(Grade),
 }
 
 /// One feature of one slot of the view, tested. `Stance`, `Discourse` and
@@ -61,13 +65,15 @@ pub struct Condition {
 }
 
 impl Condition {
-    fn holds(&self, features: &[FeatureValue]) -> bool {
+    /// Whether this condition holds over a slot's feature values: the one
+    /// evaluator `select` and the corpus tests share.
+    pub fn holds(&self, features: &[FeatureValue]) -> bool {
         let Some(found) = features.iter().find(|f| f.feature == self.feature) else {
-            return false;
+            return matches!(self.test, Test::AtMostOrUnset(_));
         };
         match (&self.test, &found.value) {
             (Test::AtLeast(g), FeatValue::Grade(v)) => v >= g,
-            (Test::AtMost(g), FeatValue::Grade(v)) => v <= g,
+            (Test::AtMost(g) | Test::AtMostOrUnset(g), FeatValue::Grade(v)) => v <= g,
             (Test::Is(want), v) => want == v,
             _ => false,
         }
@@ -78,7 +84,7 @@ impl Condition {
         FeatureValue {
             feature: self.feature,
             value: match &self.test {
-                Test::AtLeast(g) | Test::AtMost(g) => FeatValue::Grade(*g),
+                Test::AtLeast(g) | Test::AtMost(g) | Test::AtMostOrUnset(g) => FeatValue::Grade(*g),
                 Test::Is(v) => v.clone(),
             },
         }
@@ -153,7 +159,7 @@ impl Ontology {
 /// The entries of exactly `language` whose every condition holds against the
 /// view's stance, discourse and scene-relation features (the scene's only when
 /// `with_scene` selected a relation), in `n` order. An absent feature meets no
-/// condition. Nothing else of the view is read.
+/// condition except `AtMostOrUnset`. Nothing else of the view is read.
 pub fn select<'a>(
     o: &'a Ontology,
     language: &str,
@@ -172,3 +178,30 @@ pub fn select<'a>(
         })
         .collect()
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn cond(test: Test) -> Condition {
+        Condition { slot: Slot::Discourse, feature: InvId::parse("feature:7").unwrap(), test }
+    }
+    fn has(v: FeatValue) -> Vec<FeatureValue> {
+        vec![FeatureValue { feature: InvId::parse("feature:7").unwrap(), value: v }]
+    }
+    fn grade(g: u16) -> Grade {
+        Grade::new(g).unwrap()
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn at_most_or_unset_holds_when_absent_or_at_most_and_nothing_else() {
+        let c = cond(Test::AtMostOrUnset(grade(799)));
+        assert!(c.holds(&[]));
+        assert!(c.holds(&has(FeatValue::Grade(grade(799)))));
+        assert!(c.holds(&has(FeatValue::Grade(grade(0)))));
+        assert!(!c.holds(&has(FeatValue::Grade(grade(800)))));
+        assert!(!c.holds(&has(FeatValue::Flag(true))));
+        // AtMost keeps its meaning: an absent feature fails it.
+        assert!(!cond(Test::AtMost(grade(799))).holds(&[]));
+    }
+}

crates/weksa/src/store.rs

@@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ impl OntologyStore {
 /// The rules of one ontology entry against an inventory: the annotator, the
 /// bounded and normalized text of the choice and examples, the condition count
 /// and each condition's feature (slot `Stance`, `Discourse` or `Scene`, a grade
-/// feature for `AtLeast` and `AtMost`, an option or flag value for `Is`) read at
+/// feature for `AtLeast`, `AtMost` and `AtMostOrUnset`, an option or flag value for `Is`) read at
 /// `rev`. The store passes the entry's own `inventory_rev` on admission; a run
 /// passes its inventory's head, because beds number revisions independently.
 pub(crate) fn check_ontology_entry(

crates/weksa/tests/original_corpus.rs

@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ fn committed_ontology_is_model_drafted_and_reads_every_inventory() {
                         "claude-sonnet-5-5 (Weksa Hands, model-drafted seed ontology)",
                         "claude-sonnet-5-5 (Weksa Hands, model-drafted scene ontology)",
                         "claude-sonnet-5-5 (Weksa Hands, reworded seed entry)",
+                        "claude-sonnet-5-5 (Weksa Hands, conditioned seed entry)",
                     ]
                     .contains(&generator.as_str()),
                     "{}",
@@ -960,6 +961,94 @@ fn committed_scenes_cover_original_groups() {
     }
 }
 
+/// ja-JP seed entries :4 to :8 over the stance and discourse grades that bear on
+/// them (hedge, certainty, sadness, affection, restraint, each also ABSENT):
+/// the pairs that gave opposed instructions (hedge against certainty,
+/// particles, final force) never hold together; and each of :5, :7, :8 still
+/// fires where it should (hedged at certainty 700-799, affection with certainty
+/// or restraint unrated), so a tightened bound does not pass as a disjoint one.
+#[test]
+fn ja_seed_pairs_never_co_select() {
+    use weksa::inventory::Slot;
+    use weksa::ontology::{Condition, Test};
+    use weksa::OntologyStore;
+    let data = Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../data");
+    let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+    let onto = tmp.path().join("ontology.cc");
+    std::fs::copy(data.join("ontology/ontology.cc"), &onto).unwrap();
+    let inv = InventoryStore::open(&data.join("original/inventory.cc")).unwrap().inventory().unwrap();
+    let id = |gloss: &str| inv.entries().find(|e| e.gloss == gloss).unwrap().id;
+    let feats = [id("hedge"), id("certainty"), id("sadness"), id("affection"), id("restraint")];
+    let entries = OntologyStore::open(&onto).unwrap().all().unwrap();
+    let ja = |n: u32| {
+        entries
+            .iter()
+            .find(|e| e.language == "ja-JP" && e.n == n)
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("onto:ja-JP:{n} is absent"))
+    };
+    type Point = [Option<u16>; 5];
+    // The production evaluator over the slot's feature values: absent features
+    // are left out of the list, as a view leaves them out.
+    let holds = |e: &weksa::OntologyEntry, point: &Point| {
+        use weksa::packet::{FeatValue, FeatureValue, Grade};
+        e.when.iter().all(|c: &Condition| {
+            assert!(matches!(c.slot, Slot::Stance | Slot::Discourse), "{}", e.key());
+            assert!(
+                matches!(c.test, Test::AtLeast(_) | Test::AtMost(_) | Test::AtMostOrUnset(_)),
+                "{}",
+                e.key()
+            );
+            let values: Vec<FeatureValue> = feats
+                .iter()
+                .zip(point)
+                .filter_map(|(f, v)| {
+                    v.map(|v| FeatureValue { feature: *f, value: FeatValue::Grade(Grade::new(v).unwrap()) })
+                })
+                .collect();
+            assert!(feats.contains(&c.feature), "{} reads a feature this test does not sweep", e.key());
+            c.holds(&values)
+        })
+    };
+    let grid = [None, Some(0u16), Some(300), Some(500), Some(599), Some(600), Some(700), Some(799), Some(800), Some(1000)];
+    let pairs = [(5, 6), (4, 7), (6, 7), (6, 8)];
+    for p in 0..grid.len().pow(5) {
+        let point: Point = std::array::from_fn(|i| grid[p / grid.len().pow(i as u32) % grid.len()]);
+        for (a, b) in pairs {
+            assert!(
+                !(holds(ja(a), &point) && holds(ja(b), &point)),
+                "onto:ja-JP:{a} and :{b} co-select at (hedge, certainty, sadness, affection, restraint) = {point:?}"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+    // Reach: each entry fires at its witnesses and not just outside its core.
+    let (n, s) = (None, Some);
+    let fires: [(u32, Point); 9] = [
+        (5, [s(600), n, n, n, n]),
+        (5, [s(700), s(799), n, n, n]),
+        (5, [s(700), n, n, n, n]),
+        (7, [n, s(799), n, s(700), s(599)]),
+        (7, [n, n, n, s(700), n]),
+        (7, [s(1000), s(0), s(1000), s(600), s(0)]),
+        (8, [n, s(799), s(700), n, s(700)]),
+        (8, [n, n, s(600), n, s(600)]),
+        (6, [n, s(800), n, n, n]),
+    ];
+    for (e, point) in fires {
+        assert!(holds(ja(e), &point), "onto:ja-JP:{e} does not fire at {point:?}");
+    }
+    let silent: [(u32, Point); 6] = [
+        (8, [n, n, s(599), n, s(700)]),
+        (8, [n, n, n, n, s(700)]),
+        (5, [s(599), n, n, n, n]),
+        (7, [n, n, n, s(599), n]),
+        (7, [n, n, n, s(700), s(600)]),
+        (8, [n, n, s(600), n, s(599)]),
+    ];
+    for (e, point) in silent {
+        assert!(!holds(ja(e), &point), "onto:ja-JP:{e} fires at {point:?}");
+    }
+}
+
 /// The committed ontology's Scene-conditioned entries, over every scene relation
 /// (relative_status x in_group x intimacy in steps of 50): two entries of one
 /// language and layer are never selected by the same relation, so the ontology

docs/targets/interlingua-lowering-map.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ means no store holds it and nothing writes it.
 | Inventory entry | Key `<family>:<n>`, `n` canonical decimal >= 1 (families: concept, frame, role, relation, speech_act, feature, referent_kind, extension); type `weksa.inventory_entry`, with a bounded gloss, value kind (option labels bounded), the slots a feature may sit in (`Discourse`, `Referent`, `Predication`, `Relation`; `Stance` from cut `speaker-state`, `Speaker` and `Scene` from cut `speaker-scene`), `introduced_rev` and optional `retired_rev`. Speaker axes, scene relations and affects are features of those slots, so the loop grows them like any closed-class family and convergence covers them | Added or retired by an inventory revision; never edited in place (a changed meaning is a retire plus an add); a retired id still resolves for packets of earlier revisions | The loop's accepted rounds, whose minting call the context builder assembles from Train items only; `weksa inventory admit` for one model-drafted `EditDraft` outside a run (cap 256, reviewed whole in its cut; same numbering and admission check as the loop); Self on merge to main. `data/original` revs 5 (233 concepts and frames) and 6 (five concepts closing named gaps) were drafted by claude-sonnet-5-5 (Weksa Hands, model-drafted original-bed lexicon from Train and Validation passages); Validation-informed: numbers on this bed measure lowering, never generalization or convergence. Residue after rev 6, not amended (each fresh coverage reader names new gaps; the loop's growth path owns them): simultaneity (ながら), distal deixis (あの), 'first' (まず), counterfactual mood, 'at least', emphatic question; heaven versus sky for the visible 天 stays weak. Admission checks form, not text |
 | Inventory revision | Key `rev:<n>`, type `weksa.inventory_revision`, with parent, change list and `frozen` | Appended per accepted round; exactly one revision is ever marked frozen, by the convergence test | The loop's accept rule appends; the convergence test freezes; Self records the freeze as a ruling |
 | Target profile | Locale or language-project id (`en-US`, `ja-JP`, a conlang's slug). Until entries grow in rounds there is no profile revision document: a run names the profile it lowered with by the ontology store's path and digest in its `RunRecord` (cut `language-ontology`); `profile:<language>:<n>` revision documents arrive with follow-up `language-ontology-growth` | The ontology store is revised by commit; a run pins it and refuses drift; it likewise pins the speaker-state store (`RunRecord` keys 17 and 18, `Drift(SpeakerState)`, cut `language-ontology-scene`) | Profile authors and accepted rounds; never the lowerer's defaults (`persona-drives-register`) |
-| Language ontology entry (cut `language-ontology`) | Key `onto:<language>:<n>`, `n` from 1 per language; type `weksa.ontology_entry` in `data/ontology/ontology.cc`: the language, the revision of the inventory it was admitted through (provenance: beds number revisions independently and a run reads each condition's feature at its own head), a layer (lexicon, grammar, discourse, phonology, orthography), at most four conditions (a feature id of slot `Stance`, `Discourse` or `Scene` with `AtLeast`/`AtMost` a grade or `Is` an option or flag; a `Scene` condition reads the relation of the item's speaker to its addressee that `with_scene` selected; slot `Speaker` and community ids wait on follow-up `language-ontology-communities`), a choice of 1 to 200 bytes, at most three examples of 1 to 120 bytes, and an `Annotator`. Whether an entry's text keeps politeness on the scene is a model reader's judgment, owed per change (a mint owes it under `language-ontology-growth`), not a test | Admitted in all-or-nothing batches through `OntologyStore::admit`, immutable, never edited; retire arrives with `language-ontology-growth`. The run pins the store like the entity store (path and digest, `Drift(Ontology)`), never copies it, because no loop step writes it yet. Cut `language-ontology-seed` converts by drafting, not by parse: a fresh model drafts each language's seed from that language's YAML and the inventory's feature lines with no corpus text, then deletes `data/target-language-ontology/` and `.weksa/cultural-ontology/` in the same cut | Seed: a labelled model (`Annotator::Model`), no operator gate, never Test evidence (`ja-ontology-owner-answer`); attestation (operator, native reader) appends later. Accepted rounds later, through a mint call from Train items only. Selection is `ontology::select(ontology, language, view)`, called only inside `Prompt::lower`, so no caller picks entries; the prompt prints each selected entry's id, layer, choice and examples. Its text is minted text for the leak diagnostic, which today has no runtime caller (follow-up `leak-diagnostic-in-round`). The store was rebuilt without ja-JP `:14` and `:15` (above-status Scene entries; a paired measure found them net-negative on register, follow-up `ja-scene-entries-lower-register-agreement`), so ja-JP ends at `:13`: an above-status out-group addressee, and an above-status in-group addressee below intimacy 700, select no ja-JP Scene entry (`:12` still selects in-group at intimacy 700 or more regardless of status) until a native reader attests a replacement (`ja-native-reader-scenes`) |
+| Language ontology entry (cut `language-ontology`) | Key `onto:<language>:<n>`, `n` from 1 per language; type `weksa.ontology_entry` in `data/ontology/ontology.cc`: the language, the revision of the inventory it was admitted through (provenance: beds number revisions independently and a run reads each condition's feature at its own head), a layer (lexicon, grammar, discourse, phonology, orthography), at most four conditions (a feature id of slot `Stance`, `Discourse` or `Scene` with `AtLeast`/`AtMost`/`AtMostOrUnset` a grade or `Is` an option or flag; a `Scene` condition reads the relation of the item's speaker to its addressee that `with_scene` selected; slot `Speaker` and community ids wait on follow-up `language-ontology-communities`), a choice of 1 to 200 bytes, at most three examples of 1 to 120 bytes, and an `Annotator`. Whether an entry's text keeps politeness on the scene is a model reader's judgment, owed per change (a mint owes it under `language-ontology-growth`), not a test | Admitted in all-or-nothing batches through `OntologyStore::admit`, immutable, never edited; retire arrives with `language-ontology-growth`. The run pins the store like the entity store (path and digest, `Drift(Ontology)`), never copies it, because no loop step writes it yet. Cut `language-ontology-seed` converts by drafting, not by parse: a fresh model drafts each language's seed from that language's YAML and the inventory's feature lines with no corpus text, then deletes `data/target-language-ontology/` and `.weksa/cultural-ontology/` in the same cut | Seed: a labelled model (`Annotator::Model`), no operator gate, never Test evidence (`ja-ontology-owner-answer`); attestation (operator, native reader) appends later. Accepted rounds later, through a mint call from Train items only. Selection is `ontology::select(ontology, language, view)`, called only inside `Prompt::lower`, so no caller picks entries; the prompt prints each selected entry's id, layer, choice and examples. Its text is minted text for the leak diagnostic, which today has no runtime caller (follow-up `leak-diagnostic-in-round`). The store was rebuilt without ja-JP `:14` and `:15` (above-status Scene entries; a paired measure found them net-negative on register, follow-up `ja-scene-entries-lower-register-agreement`), so ja-JP ends at `:13`: an above-status out-group addressee, and an above-status in-group addressee below intimacy 700, select no ja-JP Scene entry (`:12` still selects in-group at intimacy 700 or more regardless of status) until a native reader attests a replacement (`ja-native-reader-scenes`). ja-JP `:5`, `:7` and `:8` were revised by certainty and restraint `AtMostOrUnset` conditions (holds when the feature is unrated or at most the grade; `AtMost` still fails on an unrated feature) in a store rebuild (the store has no retire, so a conditions change is a rebuild), which makes ja-JP's hedging, certainty, affection, restraint and sadness entries disjoint on `:5`/`:6`, `:4`/`:7`, `:6`/`:7`, `:6`/`:8` |
 | Community (cut `language-ontology`, follow-up `language-ontology-communities`) | Key `community:<slug>`; type `weksa.community`, converted from `data/cultural-ontology/cultures/` and `referents/` (YAML deleted in the same cut) | Revised by commit; a speaker names the communities it belongs to by id | The cultural ontology's author (owner-attested evidence only; Discord-only content stays deleted, `discord-only-content-deleted`) |
 | Speaker (cut `speaker-scene`) | Key `speaker:<slug>@<n>`; type `weksa.speaker`: stable axes as feature values of slot `Speaker` (origin, socioeconomic standing, age cohort, education and whatever the loop adds), at an inventory revision, and an `Annotator` | A new revision appends, never edits; a corpus item and every prior turn name a speaker slug, and a round records the speaker revisions it read | The annotator it names: `PersonaSnapshot` (a projection of a `gamecult.persona_state.v0` document, naming its source document and `updatedAt`), `Operator`, `WorkMetadata` (a public-domain work's own cast list and narration), or `Model { family, generator }` (the 2b `ModelFamily`) |
 | Scene (cut `speaker-scene`) | Key `scene:<group>@<n>`, the item's split group; type `weksa.scene`: participants (speaker slugs) and, per ordered pair, relation features of slot `Scene` (relative status, intimacy, in-group, audience and whatever the loop adds), at an inventory revision (provenance; a run reads the features at its own head), and an `Annotator` | As Speaker. Keyed by the group, so a scene never straddles the split. `data/original/speaker-state.cc` holds Model-annotated keeper scenes, one per Train or Validation group of both languages (`weksa scene put|dump`); a Test group has none and reads `NoScene` | As Speaker; a model-annotated scene is never Test evidence |

schemas/cultnet/weksa.ontology_entry.schema.json

@@ -257,6 +257,19 @@
           "required": [
             "Is"
           ]
+        },
+        {
+          "description": "Holds when the feature is absent or a grade at most `g`: a bound that\ncosts nothing where the feature is unrated. `AtMost` still fails on an\nabsent feature.",
+          "type": "object",
+          "properties": {
+            "AtMostOrUnset": {
+              "$ref": "#/$defs/Grade"
+            }
+          },
+          "additionalProperties": false,
+          "required": [
+            "AtMostOrUnset"
+          ]
         }
       ]
     }