NSTD.6:4 - Solution
Construct and use one narrative rendering quality evaluation characteristic space for one declared use. Reuse a sufficient current specification and result when their object, question and conditions still match.
For the structural-amount question, NarrativeRenderingEpiplexity specializes C.2.8 U.ExtractableStructuralInformation: the structure this reader or observer can extract. Its three bearers are the receiving narrative episteme, the publication form expressing it, and the specified reader or observer. The selected source structure, correctness criterion, usable prior knowledge, operations, help, access and budget qualify this tuple. An unambiguous rendering reference can identify the account and expression. Use the existing epiplexity basis, scale and evidence fields below to retain the qualifications needed for the comparison; they do not create another bearer or record kind.
Begin with named additional and missing relations when a qualitative comparison answers the question. If a number is useful, count correctly recovered selected semantic relations at a declared grain, optionally as n/N for a fixed nonempty selected set. Each unit preserves participants, predicate, polarity, modality and action-changing conditions. Repeated words, headings or arrows do not add units. Retain which relations were recovered: equal counts can differ in suitability for the next use. A different ordinal or nonnegative structural weighting needs its own explicit structural meaning; a utility weighting is another score. A formal bit estimate needs the mapping in C.2.8, not merely the name epiplexity.
State whether the basis is a conditional design walkthrough, an actual reading or a mapped formal estimate. One response establishes the recovery observed in that trial and can ground an extractability estimate; it does not establish a maximum, impossibility after failure, or reliability across a reader class. An exact computational amount requires the corresponding method and model. Keep the first response, actual help and source returns. Familiar structure can be recovered from an expression; an expert’s independent correction of false or absent instruction earns that expression no credit. Recovery of what a source asserts and recovery of warranted subject structure use different correctness questions.
Compare forms with claims and relevant conditions held constant. Added or changed substantive claims can identify another episteme through C.2.1; changed access, preparation or help qualifies another comparison. A transfer or perturbation result belongs to its tested condition or robustness question and adds nothing to the original amount by itself. Compare effort and usefulness separately through C.11.CRC and C.11; keeping the sufficient rendering is an available result.
NarrativeRenderingQualityEvaluationCharacteristicSpace@Context:
evaluatedObjectKindRef: NarrativeRenderingVersion@Context
declaredUseScope:
objectKindFitRule:
discriminatingCaseSet:
characteristicSlotSet:
epiplexityBasisRule:
scaleBindingSet:
valueMeaningSet:
evidenceBasisRule:
missingnessAndLoweringRule:
resultRowShape:
floorAndExceptionalMeaning:
protectedTradeoffSet:
stopOrReopenCondition:
neighboringGoverningPatternRefs:
Object-kind fit:
| Object-kind case | Handling |
|---|---|
| Narrative account, whether candidate or accepted | Evaluate every characteristic whose failure would defeat the intended use. |
| Below-floor narrative rendering | Evaluate and return low-value repair actions. |
| A different object is being evaluated | Select an evaluation for that object; for example, a generator’s reliability or a source archive’s authenticity is not the quality of one resulting narrative. |
| Wrong-kind object after invocation | Record explicit object-kind-fit defect and stop; do not silently assign values to unrelated coordinates. |
Default value meanings for the other ordinal content-quality characteristics follow. NarrativeRenderingEpiplexity uses its own structural scale above; the following 0–5 labels do not assign its amount, missingness or use threshold:
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
0 | The characteristic has no usable basis or the evaluation stops before a quality value can be used. Record the cause; this code is not a structural amount. |
1 | Object is a narrative rendering but unusable for the declared use. |
2 | Orientation only; source return is needed before reliance. |
3 | Locally usable with named limitations and repair obligations. |
4 | Good for declared use with bounded losses and source return. |
5 | Strong for declared use; the current source relation, response to a meaningful change, and consequential boundary cases are replayable. Actual construction or repair history is additionally replayable when a historical claim is part of the declared use. |
For reliance-bearing or teaching use, the default for structural recovery is that every relation declared necessary for that use must be recoverable under the specified support and evidence conditions. State those necessary relations at the grain the decision needs; a short account of the required distinction and stop can suffice. There is no generic structural-amount floor of 4. Keep the amount and satisfaction of the use condition separate: unrelated extra relations cannot compensate for a missing necessary relation.
The other load-bearing quality characteristics retain default floor 4 on their own scales, including OrderingRecoverability and SourceReturnReadiness. When the selected source structure is a constraint-governed unfolding structure, DemonstrativeSliceRecoverability is load-bearing and may not be below 4. A local low-risk orientation use may set those quality floors to 3 only if non-admissible downstream use is explicit. Neither numeral translates into a structural amount. A narrower use fixes its structure selection before evaluation; removing a difficult relation after observing the answer changes the basis rather than improving the original amount.
Result-row shape:
NarrativeRenderingQualityResultRow@Context:
narrativeRenderingVersionRef:
declaredUseScopeRef:
characteristicId:
characteristicName:
scaleRef:
value:
evidenceBasisRefs:
missingnessClass:
loweringReason:
repairAction:
directOwnerRefs:
reopenCondition:
Package the rows before feeding an improvement loop:
NarrativeRenderingQualityEvaluationResult@Context:
evaluatedNarrativeRenderingVersionRef:
declaredUseScopeRef:
evaluationCharacteristicSpaceRef: NarrativeRenderingQualityEvaluationCharacteristicSpace@Context
evaluationPurpose:
evidenceBasisRefs:
resultRows:
protectedTradeoffSet:
belowFloorRows:
candidateImprovementProposalRows?:
nonUseBoundary:
stopOrReopenCondition:
When repeated improvement is wanted, open E.22 first if the quality question is not already framed. Then use E.23 with NSTD.6 as the object-under-improvement evaluation. This DPF does not mint a local loop kind.
NarrativeRenderingImprovementLoopInput@Context:
e22QuestionFrameRef?:
objectUnderImprovementRef: NarrativeRenderingVersion@Context
objectVersionBeforeRef:
objectUnderImprovementEvaluationRef: NSTD.6
improvementAim:
protectedTradeoffSet:
costAndRiskAccount:
allowedChangeSlice:
narrativeRenderingVersion | NSTD.1-intake | NSTD.2-ordering |
NSTD.3-event-model | NSTD.4-viewpoint | NSTD.5-engagement |
NSTD.7-generation-and-inspection | NSTD.8-learning-route |
evaluationCharacteristicSpace
returnedFindingOrProposalRows:
expectedReEvaluationResultForm: NarrativeRenderingQualityEvaluationResult@Context
neighboringGoverningPatternRefs:
stopContinueSwitchOrHoldCondition:
E.23 may claim improvement only after the changed object version is re-evaluated through NSTD.6 or through a declared stronger evaluation. If the loop changes the source pack, source-currentness, generated-carrier admission, learning publication carrier, publication face, ethics claim, evidence claim, assurance claim, or evaluation characteristic space, the loop must name the neighboring governing pattern and either keep it as the allowed change slice or open separate work. Style edits, prompt retries, or additional drama are admissible loop operations only when their expected movement under NSTD.6 is stated and protected trade-offs are checked. B.4 is relevant only when the narrative episteme or learning route is claimed to evolve across use and renewed operation; G.11 handles refresh when source currentness, reader telemetry, teaching-test evidence, generated-narrative practice, or FPF edition changes.
Before assigning values, recover the source and use basis for the question being answered.
For current-product evaluation, name the selected subject structures, intended reader work and necessary prerequisites, then trace what the present rendering preserves, hides or loses. Use the task and qualified subject sources to establish the needed structure; the rendering can help refine that basis but cannot excuse its own omissions. Recover its ordering rationale, source-return condition, and the event or mechanism, viewpoint, agency, engagement and learning-route relations that matter to this use through NSTD.1 through NSTD.5 and NSTD.8. Point to actual source and rendering passages. If this account is reconstructed now, identify it as an evaluation of the current product, with its uncertainties, not a record of what the author did. Missing manufacturing notes do not by themselves lower current-product values; missing subject basis, inaccessible return or unsupported relation still does.
For a promised transformation, compare the named source and result versions against the promised preservation or change. This can establish their present fidelity relation without establishing the actual sequence of manufacturing actions. For a claim about actual construction or repair, obtain records or other admissible evidence of those actions and distinguish them from a plausible reconstruction. Trace the applicable NSTD.1 selection, NSTD.2 ordering, NSTD.3 mechanism, NSTD.4 viewpoint, NSTD.5 engagement and NSTD.8 learning-route decisions. If their history cannot be established, leave that historical or assurance claim unsupported and return it to its owner. A good product does not supply the missing history.
A candidate can be evaluated before acceptance; the result can inform acceptance, repair or rejection. Additional requirements follow from the proposed use and claims. When generated or discovered content is intended to inform architecture work, C.35 supplies that assessment. Reuse as evidence follows A.10; assurance, publication authority and actual human learning-effect claims require their own grounds. None of those conclusions follows merely from a favourable narrative-quality result.
Use this evaluation sequence:
- Object-kind fit: which narrative account and version is being assessed? Identify it in its text, slide sequence or other form. A question about the source collection, generator or whole teaching programme returns to the evaluation for that different object.
- Evidence fit for the question: for current-product quality, recover selected source structures, ordering, source return and relevant relations from the subject/use basis and present rendering; for promised fidelity, compare the named source and result; for actual construction or repair, recover evidence of the claimed actions. Keep these conclusions distinct.
- Declared-use fit: is the reader or listener use narrow enough to evaluate, and are non-admissible downstream uses stated?
- Load-bearing characteristics: assign values only to the characteristics needed for the declared use, but include every characteristic whose failure would make the use unsafe or useless.
- Low-value repair: for every value below floor, name the smallest repair route before proposing style, drama, or generation retries.
- Re-evaluation route: if any repair changes the object version or selected source basis, plan a new
NSTD.6evaluation before claiming improvement.
Missingness and lowering rules:
| Missing or defect condition | Lowering rule |
|---|---|
| Selected source structures cannot be identified from the subject/use basis | Leave the structural amount unassigned and return the exact selection gap to NSTD.1. A missing basis is not a small amount; apply any actual object-kind defect separately. |
| Reader, correctness criterion or other action-changing structural-comparison condition cannot be recovered | Leave the amount unassigned at that scope; retain any narrower supported result and continue independently answerable diagnosis. An absent observation is not a zero. |
| Ordering rule absent | OrderingRecoverability no higher than 2. |
| A missing time, viewpoint, participant or mediation distinction changes the reader’s interpretation | TemporalPostureAndRoleFit no higher than 2 for that use; return the specific ambiguity to NSTD.1 or NSTD.4. A missing optional record field alone is not a defect. |
| A relevant source-selection rationale or reader-use hypothesis cannot be recovered | SourceStructureSelectionFit no higher than 2 for that use; return the selection question to NSTD.1. Lower TemporalPostureAndRoleFit only if its time or participant distinctions are also missing. Leave structural amount unassigned only when its own selection, correctness or observer basis is unavailable; a missing optional field alone does not erase a recoverable basis. |
| Source-return condition absent | SourceReturnReadiness no higher than 2. |
| Constraint-governed unfolding structure is selected but the rendering declares only a sequence, route card, story line, or lesson chain | DemonstrativeSliceRecoverability no higher than 2; return to NSTD.1, NSTD.2, and A.22.CGUS or the local governing pattern before treating the narrative as a rendering of the wider structure. |
| Literary, simplified or dramatic wording hides or distorts a source relation, precision distinction or coarsening limit needed for the declared use | LanguageStatePrecisionAndCoarseningFit no higher than 2 for that use. Identify the missing relation or limit and repair it directly when its meaning is determined. Use C.2.LS, A.6.3.CSC, E.17.EFP, E.10, A.6.P or C.16.Q for the particular unresolved language-state, coarsening, explanation or precision question; then re-evaluate the present rendering. |
| Only an intended effect or seed is available, without an identifiable narrative account | No narrative version is yet available for this evaluation. Develop the cue through A.16.1, NSTD.1 or NSTD.2, or evaluate the cue for its own use. |
| An intended persuasive use conceals a material uncertainty, risk or alternative needed for the reader’s choice | EngagementBoundedness no higher than 3; restore that condition or alternative through NSTD.5. If a consequential value or harm question remains, identify the affected party and question and use the applicable D.1–D.5 contribution. An ordinary curiosity device alone requires no additional ethics work. |
| Generated account has not yet been accepted for use | Evaluate the available candidate and retain the grounds and limits of each result. Use NSTD.7 for generation repair; use C.35 only when the result is intended to inform architecture work. |
| Evidence or assurance claim made without owner | Qualify the unsupported claim and route it to A.10 or B.3; lower a relevant quality value only under its own meaning. An unsupported structural amount is unassigned rather than numerically penalized. |
| Manufacturing or repair history absent while the current-product basis is available | Do not lower a product characteristic for this absence alone. Leave any historical claim unsupported and return the evidence or assurance question to its owner; apply every relevant source, use, admission and missingness rule independently. |
A defined trial that recovers none of the selected relations supports observed recovery 0 on that scale, not impossible extraction. An empty denominator supports no fraction. Wrong-kind handling precedes amount assignment. A qualified design estimate can remain available without an actual trial; obtain a trial when its possible outcomes can change the receiving decision.
Default narrative rendering quality characteristics:
| Characteristic | Evaluation question | Low-value repair action |
|---|---|---|
SourceStructureSelectionFit | Are the selected source structures and reader-interest or use hypothesis explicit, non-magical, and well matched to the declared use? | Reopen NSTD.1; reconstruct or revise the source-structure selection rationale before changing style, drama, or prompt wording. |
NarrativeRenderingEpiplexity | What selected structure can this observer correctly extract from the narrative episteme through this expression under the declared conditions, and how does that compare with the alternative? | Use C.2.8 for the common characteristic. Return a selection gap to NSTD.1; repair the missing or false relation, its expression or its usable source return through the relevant NSTD method. A better basis declaration alone does not increase amount. C.33 separately governs architecture-description adequacy when that question is live. |
OrderingRecoverability | Can the reader say why this sequence was chosen and what it hides? | Reopen NSTD.2; state ordering rule, preserved relations, and lost relations. |
DemonstrativeSliceRecoverability | When a constraint-governed unfolding structure is selected, can the reader recover the wider structure, the demonstrative slice, and the hidden branches, loops, alternatives, direct exits, or stop conditions? | Reopen NSTD.1 and NSTD.2; name the selected CGUS or local block, the demonstrative slice, preserved constraints, lost structure, and return to A.22.CGUS or the local governing pattern. |
TemporalPostureAndRoleFit | Are time stance, mediation and the relevant participant or viewpoint distinctions clear enough for the declared use? Work-role, performer/assignment or architecture-admission information is needed only for the corresponding claim. | Reopen NSTD.1 or NSTD.4; clarify observed, live, proposed or fictional material and distinguish the narrative voice from any actual participant. Examine a further Work or admission basis when that claim is made. |
EventMechanismSupport | Can the reader reconstruct events, mechanisms, dependencies, or state changes when required? | Reopen NSTD.3; add mechanism support or lower causal language. |
ViewpointAgencyDiscipline | Does viewpoint reveal source structure without false agency, capability, responsibility, or permission? | Reopen NSTD.4; split protagonist, actant, role, agency, and ethics owners. |
EngagementBoundedness | Does engagement serve the intended effect while preserving source relations and the conditions needed for the reader’s choice? | Reopen NSTD.5; restore the missing condition, revise the device or keep a sufficient simpler account. |
LanguageStatePrecisionAndCoarseningFit | Does the chosen plain, technical, literary, compressed, didactic, or cue-like language state fit the declared use without hiding relation precision, quality sense, source loss, or route authority? | Repair the missing relation or limit. Use the relevant pattern for a remaining question: C.2.LS for a threshold-bearing language-state profile, A.6.3.CSC for narrowed-use coarsening, E.17.EFP for explanation-facing retelling, A.16.1/A.16.2 for cue or backoff, and E.10, A.6.P or C.16.Q for precision restoration. |
EthicsEvidenceAssuranceRouting | When a consequential value, harm, evidence, assurance or policy claim is made, are its grounds and limits available for the intended use? | Identify the unresolved question, then use the corresponding D.1–D.5, A.10, B.3 or professional contribution. A generic owner name does not answer the question. |
MediumAndPublicationFit | Does the carrier fit the reader and use without changing the claim? | Route publication or audience-unit questions to E.17, E.17.AUD, or NSTD.8. |
SourceReturnReadiness | Does the narrative tell readers when and where to return to the source basis or relevant method? | Add the missing return condition or destination, or narrow the supported use. |
LearningRouteReconstructionFit | For a learning route, do the responses meet the declared reconstruction task and source-return condition under the specified support? | Use NSTD.8 to repair the source contribution, support or next task. Distinguish a supplied design response from an actual learner response. |
LearningRouteReconstructionFit is an additional characteristic for teaching uses. It uses the ordinal quality meanings above and the adjacent calibration below; it is not a structural-amount scale.