Quantitative companion — four-way comparison, Effingers Ch. 25 ("Frühling")

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  "meta": {
    "work": "Gabriele Tergit, Effingers, Chapter 25 (\"Frühling\"), German → English",
    "columns": {
      "A": "AI · persona inherited from the human translator's writing about the author",
      "B": "AI · persona self-built from a 46-doc corpus (excludes the translator's writing); revised after the full read",
      "C": "AI · control (no persona, no research)",
      "H": "human · the translator's own published version (no notes; values read from the finished text)"
    },
    "sources_used": ["German source", "A translation", "B translation", "C translation", "H translation"],
    "stance": "observational, not a ranking; co-equal columns; quality/aesthetic judgment reserved for human reviewers",
    "coding_rule": "agreement = same salient lexical choice; partitions are coder judgment (one defensible coding); H read from text only",
    "n_loci": 40
  },
  "loci": [
    {"id":"refrain-wording","cue_de":"Was für eine Süße … des Jahres 1887","A":"What sweetness … of the year","B":"What sweetness … of the year","C":"What sweetness … o'clock","H":"How sweet the air was … beautiful","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"refrain-layout","cue_de":"refrain on its own line","A":"own line","B":"own line","C":"own line","H":"fused into paragraph","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"suesse","cue_de":"Süße","A":"sweetness","B":"sweetness","C":"sweetness","H":"sweet the air","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"widerklee","cue_de":"die Widerklee","A":"The Widerklee","B":"The Widerklee","C":"The Widerklee","H":"Widerklee","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"privatdozent","cue_de":"Privatdozent","A":"Privatdozent","B":"Privatdozent","C":"Privatdozent","H":"lecturer","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"streets","cue_de":"street names (-straße)","A":"-straße","B":"-straße","C":"-straße","H":"-strasse","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"bruecke","cue_de":"Weidendammer Brücke","A":"Weidendammer Brücke","B":"Weidendamm Bridge","C":"Weidendamm Bridge","H":"Weidendamm Bridge","groups":[["A"],["B","C","H"]]},
    {"id":"kloster","cue_de":"Graues Kloster","A":"Graues Kloster","B":"Grey Cloister","C":"Grey Cloister","H":"Gray Cloister","groups":[["A"],["B","C","H"]]},
    {"id":"schloss","cue_de":"Schloss (Königstr.)","A":"Schloss","B":"Schloss","C":"the Palace","H":"Berliner Schloss","groups":[["A","B","H"],["C"]]},
    {"id":"annettchen","cue_de":"Annettchen","A":"Annettchen","B":"dear little Annette","C":"Annettchen","H":"Annettchen","groups":[["A","C","H"],["B"]]},
    {"id":"einverstanden","cue_de":"Einverstanden?","A":"Agreed?","B":"Agreed?","C":"Agreed?","H":"D'accord?","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"coupe","cue_de":"Coupé","A":"carriage","B":"coupé","C":"coupé","H":"carriage","groups":[["A","H"],["B","C"]]},
    {"id":"frauenliebe","cue_de":"Frauenlieb und -leben","A":"A Woman's Love and Life","B":"A Woman's Love and Life","C":"A Woman's Love and Life","H":"Frauenliebe und Leben","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"feuerzauber","cue_de":"Feuerzauber","A":"Magic Fire","B":"Magic Fire Music","C":"Magic Fire Music","H":"Wagner's 'Feuerzauber'","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"lyric-rhyme","cue_de":"Schumann lyric in English","A":"unrhymed","B":"unrhymed","C":"unrhymed","H":"rhymed (blind/mind)","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"du-letter","cue_de":"Du → 'You' capitalised","A":"you","B":"You","C":"you","H":"you","groups":[["A","C","H"],["B"]]},
    {"id":"das-recht","cue_de":"Das Recht?","A":"Justice?","B":"The law?","C":"The law?","H":"Justice?","groups":[["A","H"],["B","C"]]},
    {"id":"praemie","cue_de":"Prämie auf Charakterlosigkeit","A":"premium on want of character","B":"want of character","C":"want of character","H":"premium on men who lack principles","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"ochsen","cue_de":"Ochsen, im wahren Sinne","A":"Oxen, in the true sense","B":"Oxen, of the word","C":"Oxen, in the true sense","H":"What numbskulls","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"baerenhunger","cue_de":"Bärenhunger","A":"hungry as a bear","B":"hungry as a bear","C":"hungry as a bear","H":"famished","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"schaem-dich","cue_de":"Schäm dich, daß du dich schämst","A":"Be ashamed that you are ashamed","B":"Be ashamed that you are ashamed","C":"Be ashamed that you are ashamed","H":"Shame on you for being ashamed","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"dialect-register","cue_de":"Berlinisch register","A":"light (diction)","B":"light (diction)","C":"light + some elision","H":"heavy eye-dialect","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"pub","cue_de":"Frischen Hammel","A":"Frischer Hammel","B":"Fresh Mutton","C":"Fresh Mutton","H":"Young Ram","groups":[["A"],["B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"molle","cue_de":"Molle","A":"beer","B":"beer","C":"Molle","H":"beer","groups":[["A","B","H"],["C"]]},
    {"id":"hammelbeine","cue_de":"Hammelbeine langziehen","A":"box your ears","B":"mutton-legs…haul","C":"mutton-legs…stretch","H":"good slap","groups":[["B","C"],["A"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"spelling","cue_de":"honor/theater","A":"American","B":"British","C":"American","H":"American","groups":[["A","C","H"],["B"]]},
    {"id":"syntax","cue_de":"verbless / inverted order","A":"kept","B":"kept","C":"kept","H":"regularized SVO","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"kasinotoilette","cue_de":"Kasinotoilette","A":"dinner gown","B":"casino gown","C":"casino gown","H":"casino toilette","groups":[["B","C"],["A"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"volksbegeisterung","cue_de":"Volksbegeisterung","A":"rapture","B":"enthusiasm","C":"enthusiasm","H":"fever pitch","groups":[["B","C"],["A"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"wache","cue_de":"Die Wache zog auf!","A":"guard was changing","B":"guard was mounting","C":"guard was changing","H":"time for the changing of the guard","groups":[["A","C"],["B"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"querpfeifer","cue_de":"kriegerischer Klang","A":"warlike sound","B":"a martial sound","C":"a martial sound","H":"din of war","groups":[["B","C"],["A"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"maetresse","cue_de":"keine Mätresse","A":"kept woman","B":"kept woman","C":"kept woman","H":"mistress","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"geliebte","cue_de":"treue Geliebte","A":"faithful lover","B":"faithful mistress","C":"faithful lover","H":"faithful lover","groups":[["A","C","H"],["B"]]},
    {"id":"erfolg","cue_de":"Erfolg","A":"success","B":"conquest","C":"success","H":"triumph","groups":[["A","C"],["B"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"schlafbursche","cue_de":"Schlafbursche","A":"lodger","B":"lodger","C":"bed-lodger","H":"bed lodger","groups":[["A","B"],["C","H"]]},
    {"id":"ueberspannt","cue_de":"überspannt","A":"overwrought","B":"overwrought","C":"overstrung","H":"high-strung","groups":[["A","B"],["C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"feierabend","cue_de":"Feierabend","A":"Knocking-off time","B":"Knocking-off time","C":"Knocking-off time","H":"end of another workday","groups":[["A","B","C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"lied-davon","cue_de":"ein Lied davon zu singen","A":"sing you a song","B":"tell a tale","C":"thing or two","H":"thing or two","groups":[["C","H"],["A"],["B"]]},
    {"id":"daemel","cue_de":"Der Dämel!","A":"The chump","B":"great fool","C":"The ninny","H":"a sop","groups":[["A"],["B"],["C"],["H"]]},
    {"id":"reh","cue_de":"wie ein Reh","A":"fawn","B":"doe","C":"fawn","H":"doe","groups":[["A","C"],["B","H"]]}
  ],
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    "n_loci": 40,
    "counts": {"A-B": 22, "A-C": 25, "B-C": 27, "A-H": 8, "B-H": 5, "C-H": 8},
    "pct": {"A-B": 55.0, "A-C": 62.5, "B-C": 67.5, "A-H": 20.0, "B-H": 12.5, "C-H": 20.0},
    "matrix_counts": {
      "A": {"A": null, "B": 22, "C": 25, "H": 8},
      "B": {"A": 22, "B": null, "C": 27, "H": 5},
      "C": {"A": 25, "B": 27, "C": null, "H": 8},
      "H": {"A": 8, "B": 5, "C": 8, "H": null}
    },
    "matrix_pct": {
      "A": {"A": null, "B": 55.0, "C": 62.5, "H": 20.0},
      "B": {"A": 55.0, "B": null, "C": 67.5, "H": 12.5},
      "C": {"A": 62.5, "B": 67.5, "C": null, "H": 20.0},
      "H": {"A": 20.0, "B": 12.5, "C": 20.0, "H": null}
    },
    "summary": {
      "mean_AI_AI_pct": 61.7,
      "mean_AI_H_pct": 17.5,
      "tightest_pair": "B-C",
      "closest_to_H": ["A-H", "C-H"],
      "A_unique_with_H_loci": ["coupe", "das-recht"],
      "note": "AI-AI >> AI-H (~3.5x); B-C tightest; no AI arm meaningfully closer to H (A-H == C-H == 8)"
    }
  },
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    "scale": "0 = keeps the German (foreignising), 100 = naturalises into English (domesticating)",
    "method": "equal-weighted mean of five test fractions (domesticating count / items), x100",
    "tests": [
      {"id": "T1-proper-nouns", "items": 5, "counts": {"A": 0, "B": 2, "C": 3, "H": 4}, "fraction": {"A": 0.00, "B": 0.40, "C": 0.60, "H": 0.80}},
      {"id": "T2-loanwords-titles", "items": 6, "counts": {"A": 4, "B": 3, "C": 2, "H": 4}, "fraction": {"A": 0.67, "B": 0.50, "C": 0.33, "H": 0.67}},
      {"id": "T3-dialect-eye", "items": 10, "counts": {"A": 0, "B": 0, "C": 3, "H": 10}, "fraction": {"A": 0.00, "B": 0.00, "C": 0.30, "H": 1.00}, "note": "raw eye-dialect token counts; normalised to highest observed (H=10)"},
      {"id": "T4-refrain-fused", "items": 1, "counts": {"A": 0, "B": 0, "C": 0, "H": 1}, "fraction": {"A": 0.00, "B": 0.00, "C": 0.00, "H": 1.00}},
      {"id": "T5-idioms", "items": 4, "counts": {"A": 1, "B": 1, "C": 1, "H": 4}, "fraction": {"A": 0.25, "B": 0.25, "C": 0.25, "H": 1.00}}
    ],
    "composite": {"A": 18, "B": 23, "C": 30, "H": 89},
    "order": ["A", "B", "C", "H"]
  },
  "clusters": [
    {"id": "C1", "name": "The source-tracking trio", "members": ["A", "B", "C"], "basis": "AI-AI agreement 55-67.5%; foreignisation 18-30; montage beat kept (T4=0)", "evidence_loci": ["refrain-wording","refrain-layout","suesse","widerklee","privatdozent","streets","einverstanden","frauenliebe","feuerzauber","lyric-rhyme","praemie","ochsen","baerenhunger","schaem-dich","dialect-register","maetresse","feierabend","syntax"]},
    {"id": "C2", "name": "The B-C twins", "members": ["B", "C"], "basis": "tightest pair, 67.5%, frequently verbatim", "evidence_loci": ["kasinotoilette","querpfeifer","feuerzauber","hammelbeine","pub","coupe","kloster","volksbegeisterung"]},
    {"id": "C3", "name": "The A-C secondary pair", "members": ["A", "C"], "basis": "2nd-tightest, 62.5%", "evidence_loci": ["reh","erfolg","annettchen","wache","spelling","du-letter"]},
    {"id": "C4", "name": "A, the foreignising edge", "members": ["A"], "basis": "lowest foreignisation (18); T1=0 (keeps most German proper nouns) but T2=4 (naturalises loanwords like H)", "evidence_loci": ["pub","bruecke","kloster","schloss","annettchen","coupe"]},
    {"id": "C5", "name": "H, the domesticating pole", "members": ["H"], "basis": "foreignisation 89; agreement with each AI arm 12.5-20%", "evidence_loci": ["refrain-layout","dialect-register","frauenliebe","feuerzauber","lyric-rhyme","privatdozent","einverstanden","baerenhunger"]},
    {"id": "C6", "name": "A-H thin thread (does not lift A above C)", "members": ["A", "H"], "basis": "A-H=8/40 tied with C-H=8/40; only 2 loci are A-with-H against both others", "evidence_loci": ["coupe","das-recht"]}
  ]
}