Weksa/data/target-language-ontology/en-US.yaml
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profile_id: weksa.target_cultural_ontology.en-US.v0
language:
code: en
locale: en-US
script: Latn
scope: >
Bounded English dialogue lowering profile for current Weksa fixtures. This is
not a claim about all English-speaking cultures.
authority:
owns:
- address directness choices
- casual versus formal register
- technical metaphor legibility
- understatement or sarcasm risk
does_not_own:
- source meaning
- speaker identity
- whole-culture description
salience_axes:
address:
relevant_distinctions:
- direct second person is acceptable when scene context names the addressee
- imperative force can be softened or sharpened through wording
lowering_questions:
- Does direct address preserve the speech act?
- Does softening erase urgency?
register:
relevant_distinctions:
- casual
- technical
- formal
- intimate
- institutional
lowering_questions:
- Is technical language character pressure or exposition sludge?
- Does sarcasm obscure the actual warning?
agency:
relevant_distinctions:
- explicit agent responsibility is usually available
- passive phrasing can hide authority or blame
lowering_questions:
- Should the speaker own the intervention directly?
- Does the line preserve who is at risk?
linguistic_affordances:
grammar_features:
- feature_id: en_us_direct_imperative_warning
label: Direct imperative warning
status: draft
domain:
layer: grammar
category: clause_mood
subcategory: imperative
description: >
Broad en-US allows direct imperatives for urgent safety warnings when
the speaker has standing to intervene and the scene rewards clarity
over mitigation.
formal_conditions:
syntactic_environment:
- main_clause
- direct_address_optional
semantic_inputs:
- warning
- addressee_action_to_stop_or_avoid
- consequence_or_risk_available
required_interlingua_fields:
- speech_act
- addressee
- prohibited_action
realization:
function: stop_or_prevent_action
surface_strategy: bare_imperative_or_do_not_imperative
examples:
- "Don't touch the damaged control."
activation:
allowed_when:
- scene_has_immediate_risk
- speaker_has_contextual_authority_or_care_relation
forbidden_when:
- politeness_softening_is_required_by_target_profile
- imperative_would_falsely_imply_hierarchy
requires_profile_authority: false
minimum_density: light
maximum_density: normal
constraints:
grammar_contexts:
- avoid_if_source_requires_indirect_request
register_contexts:
- casual
- technical
- emergency
speaker_contexts:
- known_addressee
- operator_warning
incompatibilities:
- generic_assistant_over_politeness
indexicality:
social_meanings:
- urgency
- clarity
- responsibility
in_group_meanings: []
out_group_risks:
- may sound abrupt if the scene is not urgent
stereotypes_to_avoid: []
evidence:
source_refs:
- schemas/cultural-ontology-profile.md
qdrant_source_ids: []
cached_source_refs: []
source_hashes: []
reviewer_refs: []
confidence: medium
uncertainty:
open_questions:
- Should a later en-US regional overlay override imperative force?
known_limits:
- Base en-US does not model regional, racialized, or contact-language
dialect grammar.
trace:
trace_label: direct_imperative_warning
must_report_when_used: true
must_report_when_rejected: true
phonology_features: []
lexicon_features: []
discourse_patterns: []
orthography_features: []
code_switching:
allowed: false
constraints:
- Base en-US profile does not authorize contact-language switching.
patterns: []
forbidden_flattenings:
- Do not treat English as the neutral source for other target languages.
- Do not use generic assistant politeness when a character voice is required.
- Do not let sarcasm replace the actual predicate being lowered.