Entailed Polarity

A BIG-bench yes/no task that asks what polarity an English implicative verb entails for a simple follow-up question.

Also known as: BIG-bench entailed_polarity

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Categoryreasoning
SubcategoryBIG-bench yes/no implicative-verb polarity (149 JSON items)
Page statusunknown
Metricmultiple_choice_grade
Directionhigher_is_better
Unit%
Dataset size149
Dataset licenceApache-2.0
PublisherGoogle (BIG-bench collaboration)

What it measures

entailed_polarity gives an English fact that uses a one-way or two-way implicative verb, then a yes/no question about the entailed event. Kaustubh Dhole built the items from Lauri Karttunen's 2012 inventory of simple and phrasal implicatives (*SEM S12-1020). One-way implicatives license a polarity in only one direction; two-way implicatives license a polarity under both positive and negative embedding. The README claims 114 verbs and 149 examples. The skill is computing that lexical entailment, not general NLI such as [anli](anli.md) and not [analytic_entailment](analytic_entailment.md).

Task format

Two-option multiple choice (yes / no), preferred metric multiple_choice_grade. task_prefix: "Given a fact, answer the following question with a yes or a no." append_choices_to_input is false. Canary GUID embedded.

Models reporting this benchmark

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Data

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