NSTD.Reference:11 - Working meanings and direct source returns

These terms help distinguish questions that occur in narrative work. A local field name does not create a new Core kind. Use the cited definition when the particular claim needs its precision.

Term	Meaning in this DPF	When a related method is needed
source basis; admitted source basis	Material used for the account: a formal text, event record, story premise, canon, architecture description or another relevant source. “Admitted” adds a receiving-use condition only when one is specified.	Compare ordinary sources directly. Use `G.2` for SoTA synthesis, `A.10` for an evidence claim or `E.17.EFP` for a source-based explanation.
selected source structure	The relations or distinctions selected for the narrative.	`A.6.3.NAR` relates the source to the account; `A.22` helps describe structure, `C.2.8` its recovery by a reader, and `C.33` architecture-description adequacy.
source-structure selection rationale	Why those relations matter for the reader’s use.	`NSTD.1` revises selection and purpose together.
source temporal posture	Whether the account concerns past events, a live situation, a plan, prospective fiction or a combination.	`NSTD.1` keeps observation, inference and invention distinguishable when their difference matters.
rendering mediation mode	Whether the narrative draws directly on source structure, through an architecture description, or both.	Use architecture methods only for the architecture contribution actually involved.
architecture-mediated narrativization route	Narrative construction that uses an architecture description, view, decision or account of actual structure as a source.	`C.30`/`C.32` govern the relevant architecture work; `NSTD.1/.2` govern selection and presentation.
rendering Work role	The writing, teaching, commentary or other contribution sought in the task.	A precise actual-Work claim separately identifies the System, applicable role assignment and occurrence through `A.13` and `A.15.1`. The task description alone asserts no occurrence.
reader or listener role	The receiver’s working position and intended use.	`NSTD.1/.6` use it to select material and judge the account; it does not establish actual comprehension.
reader-interest or use hypothesis	A tentative account of what the reader wants to understand, remember or do.	A comparison or reader response through `NSTD.5/.6` may change that hypothesis.
narrative rendering	The resulting narrative account; where relevant, distinguish it from the construction relation and the file or other publication form.	`A.6.3.NAR` defines the construction; `E.17` addresses publication form.
narrative purpose	The intended contribution to the reader’s use, including an expressive aim.	`NSTD.1` relates it to the selected material.
ordering rule	The way selected material is presented in sequence.	`NSTD.2` distinguishes presentation order from event time, proof dependency and required work order.
event model	A reader’s account of events, states and their connections.	`NSTD.3` repairs those connections; use `C.28` when a causal claim itself requires causal analysis.
viewpoint	The position from which the account presents its material.	`NSTD.4` compares what this reveals and hides.
focalized object	The person, object, relation or situation made salient by the chosen viewpoint.	`NSTD.4` separates salience from an attribution of action or responsibility.
voice	How the narrator speaks: stance, distance, confidence and relation to the events.	`NSTD.4` checks a consequential mismatch between voice and what is known.
protagonist	A central participant or focus of the narrative.	Real responsibility or capability, when claimed, requires its own grounds.
actant	A function in a narrative relation or plot.	Distinguish it from a real System’s local system-role kind or assignment under `A.2`/`A.2.1`.
agency; personification	Agency concerns action; personification presents something through humanlike properties.	Use `A.13` for a precise agency claim and `NSTD.4` to repair misleading attribution.
engagement effect	A change in attention, motivation, immersion, memorability or willingness to continue.	`NSTD.5/.6` distinguish these effects from understanding and source fidelity.
persuasion boundary	A condition on the intended influence or choice the account supports.	`D.1`–`D.5` help resolve actual value, affected-party or harm conflicts.
generated source plan	A plan of selected material, relations and constraints supplied to a generator.	`NSTD.7` compares it with the source and draft. `G.2` concerns SoTA synthesis; `C.35` concerns results entering architecture work.
plot or event plan	A proposed arrangement of fictional or narrated events.	`NSTD.2/.7` compare the plan and draft; a plan is not evidence that events occurred.
schema constraint	A formal or informal rule imposed on generated output.	`NSTD.7` distinguishes compliance with that rule from semantic adequacy or successful execution.
generation method	The procedure used to produce a draft.	`NSTD.7` guides its use; a product can be inspected even when its production history is unknown.
repair loop	Repeated changes evaluated against the intended improvement.	`E.22` frames an unresolved improvement question; `E.23` uses results such as `NSTD.6` to choose and reassess changes.
learning narrative route	An arrangement of material and learner activities intended to develop a capability.	`NSTD.8` supplies needed support at each use; `E.17` and `E.17.AUD` address the teaching publication.
learner reconstruction task	A task asking a learner to recover or use selected relations.	`NSTD.8/.6` distinguish task performance, assistance and the wider learning claim.
narrative rendering epiplexity	In `NSTD.6`, the reader-relative recovery of selected structure, using `C.2.8`.	Qualify the observer, form, conditions and evidence. A qualitative comparison does not supply a bit estimate, general learning result or architecture-quality result.
narrative quality characteristic	One question about a narrative version for a declared use.	`A.19.ECS`, `C.16` and `NSTD.6` distinguish the characteristic, scale, observation and result.
narrative language-state facet profile	A description of articulation, closure, anchoring, representation and their relevant thresholds.	Use `C.2.LS` and `C.2.4`–`C.2.7` when one of those distinctions changes the work.
pre-articulation narrative cue	An image, tension, mismatch or hint worth retaining before a clear narrative claim or route exists.	`A.16.1` supports exploration without prematurely fixing a route.
preconceptual narrative fit signal	Felt rightness or artistic pull before a defined quality comparison.	`C.16.Q` distinguishes this signal from a characteristic value; `A.16.1` can preserve it as a cue.
coarsened narrative rendering	A simplified or restricted account that omits distinctions from its source.	`A.6.3.CSC` identifies the consequences for use and needed source returns.
explanation-facing narrative rendering	A narrative used to help a reader understand a source.	`E.17.EFP` distinguishes its explanatory relation; `A.6.3.NAR` applies when narrative order is part of the construction.
narrative precision restoration	Resolving wording whose ambiguity changes the claim or action.	Use `E.10`, `A.6.P`, `C.16.Q` or `C.2.P` for the specific unresolved meaning.
artistic or literary rendering mode	A choice of voice, tone, genre, scene or technique for an expressive or other reader aim.	`NSTD.4/.5` guide the choice; `NSTD.6` assesses it for that aim without treating artistic effect as factual support.