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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4758172d story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3 
Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes,
keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy,
wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written
groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters
gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00

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{
"groups": [
{
"id": "G01",
"name": "Spending ahead of what you earn",
"predicament": "You are spending more than you earn, often to keep up with free-spending company, and the bills are coming due.",
"sentence": "A young earner wants to live well now from their own pay packet, and the company they keep.",
"actor": "young earner",
"wants": "to live well now",
"counterpart": "their own pay packet, and the company they keep",
"stories": [
1,
3,
8
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 2: Mr. Pierrepont's expense account has just passed under his father's eye, and has furnished him with a text for some plain particularities.",
"Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.",
"Letter 9: Mr. Pierrepont has been investing more heavily in roses than his father thinks his means warrant, and he tries to turn his thoughts to staple groceries."
],
"standing": {
"low": 6
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 8,
"story": 1,
"predicament": "A young person spending freely on someone else's money is warned that the habit will break them once the support stops."
},
{
"chunk": 10,
"story": 1,
"predicament": "Someone given a start must decide whether to build on it by thrift or to spend ahead of what they earn."
},
{
"chunk": 11,
"story": 1,
"predicament": "Among free-spending companions, someone fears that being careful with money will get them thought mean."
},
{
"chunk": 25,
"story": 3,
"predicament": "Someone who has never earned anything wants a long holiday before starting work, just as their support is being cut off."
},
{
"chunk": 63,
"story": 8,
"predicament": "Someone on small pay is spending far beyond it courting a person who cares mainly about money."
},
{
"chunk": 64,
"story": 8,
"predicament": "Someone barely earning is drifting toward marriage without a clear look at who, and whose family, they are taking on."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Bring your spending down to what you actually earn.",
"source": "advice:8",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"relationships.peers": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep saving, and keep expenses down.",
"source": "advice:10",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"flags.buying_in": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Spend freely, so nobody thinks you mean.",
"source": "advice:11",
"moves": {
"relationships.peers": "+",
"money": "-",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Ask for an advance on your pay.",
"source": "scene:13",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"relationships.boss": "-"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Spend it as fast as it comes.",
"source": "advice:10",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"relationships.peers": "+"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G02",
"name": "Starting at the bottom",
"predicament": "You are starting at the bottom on low pay and dull work, and must decide whether it is a first step or a resting place.",
"sentence": "A new hand wants to rise from the boss who put them there.",
"actor": "new hand",
"wants": "to rise",
"counterpart": "the boss who put them there",
"stories": [
1,
2,
3,
4
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 2: Mr. Pierrepont's expense account has just passed under his father's eye, and has furnished him with a text for some plain particularities.",
"Letter 3: Mr. Pierrepont finds Cambridge to his liking, and has suggested that he take a post-graduate course to fill up some gaps which he has found in his education.",
"Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.",
"Letter 5: Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion."
],
"standing": {
"low": 7
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 9,
"story": 1,
"predicament": "Someone with a family tie to the owner learns they must start at the bottom like everyone else and earn each step up."
},
{
"chunk": 19,
"story": 2,
"predicament": "Someone begging for work is offered only the hardest, lowest labour, by someone who expects them to turn it down."
},
{
"chunk": 20,
"story": 2,
"predicament": "Someone stuck at heavy, tedious work finds a way to make it unnecessary, and so talks themselves out of the job."
},
{
"chunk": 26,
"story": 3,
"predicament": "Someone out of work, or about to start, must decide whether to take the first job offered or hold out for better."
},
{
"chunk": 33,
"story": 4,
"predicament": "In their first weeks at a new job, someone learns either how little they can get away with or how to reach higher."
},
{
"chunk": 34,
"story": 4,
"predicament": "Someone starting their first year of work must pace themselves to finish strong when promotions are decided."
},
{
"chunk": 35,
"story": 4,
"predicament": "Someone new at work wants quick recognition, though nothing there is won without long, steady showing up."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Take the first job offered and use it as bait for a better one.",
"source": "advice:26",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Find a way to do the work cheaper, even if it abolishes your job.",
"source": "advice:20",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"money": "+",
"relationships.boss": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Learn how little you can do and still keep the job.",
"source": "scene:33",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Hold your own job firmly and reach for the next one.",
"source": "advice:33",
"moves": {
"hustle": "+",
"relationships.boss": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Come early, stay late and keep at it.",
"source": "advice:35",
"moves": {
"hustle": "+",
"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G03",
"name": "Doing just enough",
"predicament": "You could keep your place with half your effort, and must decide whether the other half is worth giving.",
"sentence": "A settled employee wants to keep the job without killing themselves from the boss deciding who rises.",
"actor": "settled employee",
"wants": "to keep the job without killing themselves",
"counterpart": "the boss deciding who rises",
"stories": [
5,
10,
14
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 6: Mr. Pierrepont has, entirely without intention, caused a little confusion in the mails, and it has come to his father's notice in the course of business.",
"Letter 11: Mr. Pierrepont's orders are small and his expenses are large, so his father feels pessimistic over his prospects.",
"Letter 15: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted again, and the old man sends him a little advice with his appointment."
],
"standing": {
"low": 3,
"middle": 3,
"high": 1
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 40,
"story": 5,
"predicament": "Someone who can work well when they choose lets their mind wander at a dull task, and the mistakes surface later."
},
{
"chunk": 41,
"story": 5,
"predicament": "Someone arrives at work sluggishly and leaves on the stroke, not seeing that this decides whether they are ever trusted with more."
},
{
"chunk": 44,
"story": 5,
"predicament": "Someone in line for the next opening does not see that small habits of punctuality and full effort decide who fills it."
},
{
"chunk": 80,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "Someone doing just enough to avoid being dismissed must decide whether to put in the effort that actually brings results."
},
{
"chunk": 81,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "Someone who knows just enough of the business to hold their job must decide whether to learn the parts beyond it."
},
{
"chunk": 87,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "Someone managing adequately must decide whether to take on more than is asked and grow into a bigger role."
},
{
"chunk": 119,
"story": 14,
"predicament": "Someone newly made second in command must become indispensable to their chief and ready to run things without them."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Do just enough to keep from being dismissed.",
"source": "advice:80",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Put in the second half of the effort.",
"source": "advice:80",
"moves": {
"hustle": "+",
"relationships.boss": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Learn more of the business than your job needs.",
"source": "advice:81",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"flags.promoted": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Come in late, leave early, and do your own business in between.",
"source": "advice:44",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"flags.passed_over": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take on every extra job going, and cheerfully.",
"source": "advice:87",
"moves": {
"hustle": "+",
"flags.promoted": "set"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G04",
"name": "A hard boss",
"predicament": "Your superior is gruff, demanding and unimpressed with you, and you are tempted to complain, sulk or go over their head.",
"sentence": "A subordinate wants fair treatment and a chance from a gruff superior.",
"actor": "subordinate",
"wants": "fair treatment and a chance",
"counterpart": "a gruff superior",
"stories": [
4,
6,
11
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 5: Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion.",
"Letter 7: Mr. Pierrepont hasn't found the methods of the worthy Milligan altogether to his liking, and he has commented rather freely on them.",
"Letter 12: Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most reprehensible, resignation."
],
"standing": {
"low": 3,
"middle": 2
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 38,
"story": 4,
"predicament": "Someone is being placed under a superior who resents having a newcomer imposed on them without being asked."
},
{
"chunk": 45,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone declares they cannot work under their gruff superior, not seeing that there will always be someone over them."
},
{
"chunk": 46,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone has to get along with a difficult superior whose manner is rough but whose intentions may be good."
},
{
"chunk": 88,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone under criticism answers with meek, wounded resignation instead of kicking back or doing better."
},
{
"chunk": 89,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone who was passed over blames a rival's connections and a jealous superior for holding them back."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Say you cannot work under them.",
"source": "advice:45",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Give way to them, and approach them with respect.",
"source": "advice:46",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Go over their head and report what is wrong with them.",
"source": "advice:46",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"relationships.owner": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take the criticism in wounded silence.",
"source": "advice:88",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Complain that you are being held down.",
"source": "advice:89",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G05",
"name": "Talking yourself up",
"predicament": "You are doing well, or want to seem to, and are tempted to make sure everyone knows it.",
"sentence": "A rising employee wants to be noticed from superiors and colleagues.",
"actor": "rising employee",
"wants": "to be noticed",
"counterpart": "superiors and colleagues",
"stories": [
6,
11,
16
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 7: Mr. Pierrepont hasn't found the methods of the worthy Milligan altogether to his liking, and he has commented rather freely on them.",
"Letter 12: Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most reprehensible, resignation.",
"Letter 17: Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is getting along famously in his new place."
],
"standing": {
"low": 1,
"middle": 2,
"high": 3
},
"stage": "high",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 50,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone newly placed puts on airs among their colleagues and lets everyone know what they think of the people there."
},
{
"chunk": 90,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone knocked about by setbacks must decide whether to bounce back quietly or tell everyone how good they really are."
},
{
"chunk": 91,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone who has taken in a great deal of knowledge, or a little success, begins to think too well of themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 138,
"story": 16,
"predicament": "Someone doing well in a new post keeps telling their superiors how well they are doing."
},
{
"chunk": 139,
"story": 16,
"predicament": "Someone watches others rise fast on talk and show, and is tempted to take the same shortcut."
},
{
"chunk": 140,
"story": 16,
"predicament": "Someone rushes at each new undertaking with a great deal of noise, then loses interest before it is done."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Tell your superiors how well you are doing.",
"source": "advice:138",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Say nothing, and let the results speak.",
"source": "advice:140",
"moves": {
"standing": "+",
"hustle": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Put on airs around the office.",
"source": "advice:50",
"moves": {
"standing": "-",
"relationships.peers": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Rise on talk and show while it works.",
"source": "advice:139",
"moves": {
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Give more than you are paid for.",
"source": "advice:138",
"moves": {
"hustle": "+",
"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G06",
"name": "Saying too much",
"predicament": "You are tempted to say more than you need to: a joke, a retort, an opinion, or a complaint about someone.",
"sentence": "A talker wants to be heard from whoever is listening.",
"actor": "talker",
"wants": "to be heard",
"counterpart": "whoever is listening",
"stories": [
4,
6,
9
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 5: Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion.",
"Letter 7: Mr. Pierrepont hasn't found the methods of the worthy Milligan altogether to his liking, and he has commented rather freely on them.",
"Letter 10: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road."
],
"standing": {
"low": 3,
"middle": 2
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 32,
"story": 4,
"predicament": "Someone doing business must decide how much to say, knowing that every word past the point can be turned against them."
},
{
"chunk": 47,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone too busy telling others what they know ignores every warning about the risky new thing they have taken on."
},
{
"chunk": 49,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone looking for a new place is tempted to win sympathy by running down the employer they are leaving."
},
{
"chunk": 71,
"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone newly put in front of customers is tempted to answer their complaints with a smart retort."
},
{
"chunk": 72,
"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone makes a flippant remark while bargaining and hands the other side an opening to mock them."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Say what you came to say, and stop.",
"source": "advice:32",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"money": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Listen more than you talk.",
"source": "advice:33",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"relationships.counterpart": "+"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Crack the joke.",
"source": "advice:72",
"moves": {
"standing": "-",
"relationships.counterpart": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Run down the people you used to work for.",
"source": "advice:49",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"flags.not_hired": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Answer back with a smart retort.",
"source": "advice:71",
"moves": {
"relationships.counterpart": "-",
"money": "-"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G07",
"name": "A customer tries you",
"predicament": "A customer complains, needles you or sets a trap, and how you answer decides whether you keep their trade.",
"sentence": "A seller wants to keep the trade from a difficult customer.",
"actor": "seller",
"wants": "to keep the trade",
"counterpart": "a difficult customer",
"stories": [
9,
10,
11
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 10: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road.",
"Letter 11: Mr. Pierrepont's orders are small and his expenses are large, so his father feels pessimistic over his prospects.",
"Letter 12: Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most reprehensible, resignation."
],
"standing": {
"middle": 4
},
"stage": "middle",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 74,
"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone courting buyers must decide how far to flatter them, beg them, or run down the rival's goods to win an order."
},
{
"chunk": 75,
"story": 9,
"predicament": "A customer is complaining about the goods, and someone must judge whether the complaint is a lie, an exaggeration or the truth."
},
{
"chunk": 82,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "A customer sets a trap to make an ill-informed seller look foolish in front of an audience."
},
{
"chunk": 93,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone is sure a person they must deal with is a liar, and must decide whether and how to say so."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Settle a fair complaint on the spot, bargaining down from the first figure.",
"source": "advice:75",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"relationships.customer": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Know your goods well enough to turn their trap round.",
"source": "advice:82",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"money": "+",
"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Say something about them that they will take as praise.",
"source": "advice:93",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"relationships.customer": "+",
"money": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Flatter them.",
"source": "advice:74",
"moves": {
"relationships.customer": "+",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Tell them to their face that they are a liar.",
"source": "advice:93",
"moves": {
"relationships.customer": "-",
"flags.fought": "set"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G08",
"name": "Goods nobody wants",
"predicament": "You have goods to sell and buyers who feel no need of them.",
"sentence": "A seller wants to move the goods from buyers who are not hungry.",
"actor": "seller",
"wants": "to move the goods",
"counterpart": "buyers who are not hungry",
"stories": [
7,
9,
11
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 8: Mr. Pierrepont has just been promoted from the mailing to the billing desk and, in consequence, his father is feeling rather \"mellow\" toward him.",
"Letter 10: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road.",
"Letter 12: Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most reprehensible, resignation."
],
"standing": {
"low": 2,
"middle": 4
},
"stage": "middle",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 51,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "Someone with more stock than buyers tries dressing the same goods up as something new, and the disguise fools nobody."
},
{
"chunk": 52,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "Someone with goods that will not move tries giving them a grander label and a higher price instead of a lower one."
},
{
"chunk": 77,
"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone new to a place offends the very people they hoped to sell to by hinting that they badly need it."
},
{
"chunk": 95,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone with goods to sell draws a large, friendly crowd and still sells nothing, because nobody feels any need."
},
{
"chunk": 98,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone stages a convincing demonstration so that an uneasy crowd rushes to buy what it had just refused."
},
{
"chunk": 99,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone selling to people who feel no need must decide whether to wait for demand or to create it."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Give them a grander label and a higher price.",
"source": "advice:52",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Tell the buyers plainly that they need it.",
"source": "scene:77",
"moves": {
"relationships.customer": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Stage a show that makes the need feel real.",
"source": "advice:98",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"flags.sharp_practice": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Dress the same goods up as something new.",
"source": "advice:51",
"moves": {
"money": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take them where the money already is.",
"source": "advice:78",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"hustle": "+"
},
"in_group": false
}
]
},
{
"id": "G09",
"name": "Easy money",
"predicament": "Someone offers, or the market seems to offer, money for nothing, and you have a little you could stake.",
"sentence": "A person of small means wants to get rich quicker from a schemer, a tipster, or the market.",
"actor": "person of small means",
"wants": "to get rich quicker",
"counterpart": "a schemer, a tipster, or the market",
"stories": [
3,
4,
13
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.",
"Letter 5: Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion.",
"Letter 14: Mr. Pierrepont has taken a little flyer in short ribs on 'Change, and has accidentally come into the line of his father's vision."
],
"standing": {
"low": 3,
"middle": 3
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 30,
"story": 3,
"predicament": "A newly prosperous person abroad is marked as an easy target by everyone with something to sell them."
},
{
"chunk": 36,
"story": 4,
"predicament": "A friend full of get-rich-quick schemes offers to let you in on the ground floor if you will stake them."
},
{
"chunk": 37,
"story": 4,
"predicament": "Someone spends their nights scheming at private ventures while drawing wages for the work they are paid to think about."
},
{
"chunk": 109,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "Someone on modest pay is tempted to gamble on prices, sure that their inside view of the trade gives them an edge."
},
{
"chunk": 111,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "Someone is offered a return on their money so high that it ought to make them ask what is wrong with it."
},
{
"chunk": 117,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "Someone who talks themselves out of their principles to take easy money finds it already gone."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Stay clear: take the elevator to the roof garden.",
"source": "advice:36",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"relationships.schemer": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take a little flyer on it.",
"source": "scene:108",
"moves": {
"money": "risk",
"relationships.boss": "-",
"flags.speculated": "set"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Lend them a little rather than join in.",
"source": "advice:37",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"relationships.schemer": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Ask why the return is so high before you trust it.",
"source": "advice:111",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Talk yourself into it, principles and all.",
"source": "scene:117",
"moves": {
"money": "risk",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G10",
"name": "Taking someone on",
"predicament": "You are about to hire or trust someone on the strength of how they look, how they talk, or who vouches for them.",
"sentence": "A employer wants a good hand from the candidate and whoever vouches for them.",
"actor": "employer",
"wants": "a good hand",
"counterpart": "the candidate and whoever vouches for them",
"stories": [
6,
7,
12
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 7: Mr. Pierrepont hasn't found the methods of the worthy Milligan altogether to his liking, and he has commented rather freely on them.",
"Letter 8: Mr. Pierrepont has just been promoted from the mailing to the billing desk and, in consequence, his father is feeling rather \"mellow\" toward him.",
"Letter 13: Mr. Pierrepont's orders have been looking up, so the old man gives him a pat on the back--but not too hard a one."
],
"standing": {
"low": 4,
"middle": 3
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 48,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone confidently approaches a quiet-looking danger and is badly hurt, learning that the smooth ones are the ones to fear."
},
{
"chunk": 53,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "Someone is asked to take on a newcomer on the strength of a doting parent's glowing account of them."
},
{
"chunk": 56,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "Someone must judge the worth of something or someone they are fond of, and fondness is clouding their judgement."
},
{
"chunk": 59,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "Someone has taken on a friend's child as a favour, and the placement is failing in a way that will cost the friendship."
},
{
"chunk": 105,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone is about to take on a person who looks exactly right, without having tried them out first."
},
{
"chunk": 106,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone trusted and rewarded for their polish turns out to have been quietly stealing all along."
},
{
"chunk": 107,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone who trusted an employee for their manners learns, too late, that they paid for the getaway."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Take them on the word of whoever vouches for them.",
"source": "scene:53",
"moves": {
"relationships.friend": "+",
"money": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Try them out in the work before committing.",
"source": "advice:105",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Get an outsider's valuation, in figures.",
"source": "advice:56",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"relationships.friend": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Trust the one with the polished manners.",
"source": "advice:107",
"moves": {
"relationships.hire": "+",
"money": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Be on your guard against anyone too smooth.",
"source": "advice:48",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"relationships.hire": "-"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G11",
"name": "Looking the part",
"predicament": "You want to be taken for more than you yet are, and must decide how much to spend on looking the part.",
"sentence": "A person on the way up wants to be taken seriously from the people who judge by appearances.",
"actor": "person on the way up",
"wants": "to be taken seriously",
"counterpart": "the people who judge by appearances",
"stories": [
3,
12,
15,
16
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.",
"Letter 13: Mr. Pierrepont's orders have been looking up, so the old man gives him a pat on the back--but not too hard a one.",
"Letter 16: Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies.",
"Letter 17: Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is getting along famously in his new place."
],
"standing": {
"low": 1,
"middle": 4,
"high": 3
},
"stage": "middle",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 31,
"story": 3,
"predicament": "Someone who has built a name by their work is tempted to buy the trappings of inherited rank instead."
},
{
"chunk": 100,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone whose work has begun to pay off is told their way of dressing is costing them the trust of people who matter."
},
{
"chunk": 101,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone whose position rests on others' confidence is seen doing something that looks like a sign of trouble."
},
{
"chunk": 102,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone rising in the world finds that habits nobody minded before now count against them."
},
{
"chunk": 104,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone who is not yet anything in particular must decide how much to invest in looking the part."
},
{
"chunk": 134,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "A newcomer keeps calling on neighbours who are always out, never guessing that they are refusing to know them."
},
{
"chunk": 135,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "Someone snubbed by their neighbours throws a lavish public show to win them all over at once."
},
{
"chunk": 144,
"story": 16,
"predicament": "Someone is ruled by fear of looking foolish, and it pushes them to pose and spend beyond their means."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Get a sober, well-made suit and look the part.",
"source": "scene:100",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Look like someone of consequence before you are one.",
"source": "advice:104",
"moves": {
"standing": "+",
"money": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Build your name on your work, not on borrowed rank.",
"source": "advice:31",
"moves": {
"standing": "+",
"hustle": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Throw a lavish show to win acceptance.",
"source": "advice:135",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"standing": "-",
"flags.public_scandal": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep up appearances beyond your means.",
"source": "advice:144",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G12",
"name": "Someone under you falls short",
"predicament": "Someone under you is slack, wrong for the post, or in a bad habit, and it falls to you to act.",
"sentence": "A manager wants the work done well from a subordinate falling short.",
"actor": "manager",
"wants": "the work done well",
"counterpart": "a subordinate falling short",
"stories": [
3,
5,
12,
14
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.",
"Letter 6: Mr. Pierrepont has, entirely without intention, caused a little confusion in the mails, and it has come to his father's notice in the course of business.",
"Letter 13: Mr. Pierrepont's orders have been looking up, so the old man gives him a pat on the back--but not too hard a one.",
"Letter 15: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted again, and the old man sends him a little advice with his appointment."
],
"standing": {
"low": 2,
"middle": 1,
"high": 2
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 28,
"story": 3,
"predicament": "Someone in charge keeps putting off hard decisions about people and bills until the consequences arrive on their own."
},
{
"chunk": 43,
"story": 5,
"predicament": "Someone who keeps needing to be rescued finds that the people in charge have finally stopped spending time on them."
},
{
"chunk": 103,
"story": 12,
"predicament": "Someone in a conspicuous place catches a junior in the very habit they indulge in themselves."
},
{
"chunk": 121,
"story": 14,
"predicament": "Someone newly in charge of others must decide whether to drive them, shame them, or lead them by example and praise."
},
{
"chunk": 122,
"story": 14,
"predicament": "Someone in charge has found that a person they hired is wrong for the place and is reluctant to let them go."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Let a wrong hire go at once, with a month's pay.",
"source": "advice:122",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"relationships.staff": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Put it off a little longer.",
"source": "advice:28",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"flags.lost_good_hand": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Set the example yourself, starting with your own habits.",
"source": "advice:103",
"moves": {
"hustle": "+",
"relationships.staff": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Tell them bluntly what is wrong with them.",
"source": "advice:121",
"moves": {
"relationships.staff": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Threaten them.",
"source": "advice:122",
"moves": {
"relationships.staff": "-",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G13",
"name": "Caught between two sides",
"predicament": "You stand between two sides who each want your loyalty, and favouring either openly will cost you with the other.",
"sentence": "A go-between wants to keep both sides from those above and those below, or the firm and the customer.",
"actor": "go-between",
"wants": "to keep both sides",
"counterpart": "those above and those below, or the firm and the customer",
"stories": [
11,
15,
17
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 12: Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most reprehensible, resignation.",
"Letter 16: Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies.",
"Letter 18: Mr. Pierrepont is worried over rumors that the old man is a bear on lard and that the longs are about to make him climb a tree."
],
"standing": {
"middle": 2,
"high": 3
},
"stage": "high",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 92,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone must keep two parties content who each resent any favour shown to the other."
},
{
"chunk": 94,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone standing between their employer and the customers must keep the trust of both, when cheating either would be easy."
},
{
"chunk": 128,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "Someone newly placed between a manager and the staff finds each side blaming them for the other's faults."
},
{
"chunk": 129,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "Someone serving as a superior's deputy must win the goodwill of both the one above and those below."
},
{
"chunk": 149,
"story": 17,
"predicament": "Someone is praised by one side and reviled by the other for the same act, and must decide whom to heed."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Try openly to please both sides.",
"source": "advice:92",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"relationships.other_side": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep them apart, and let each think they have slightly the better of it.",
"source": "advice:92",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"relationships.boss": "+",
"relationships.other_side": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Please your own side and let the other grumble.",
"source": "advice:149",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "+",
"relationships.other_side": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Cut a corner on one side to keep the other sweet.",
"source": "advice:94",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "+",
"relationships.other_side": "-",
"flags.skinned_someone": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Explain yourself to both.",
"source": "advice:128",
"moves": {
"relationships.other_side": "+",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G14",
"name": "Sizing up a match",
"predicament": "You are drifting toward marrying someone and have not yet taken a clear look at them, their family, or what it will cost.",
"sentence": "A suitor wants to marry well from the person they are courting, and that person's family.",
"actor": "suitor",
"wants": "to marry well",
"counterpart": "the person they are courting, and that person's family",
"stories": [
8,
18,
19
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 9: Mr. Pierrepont has been investing more heavily in roses than his father thinks his means warrant, and he tries to turn his thoughts to staple groceries.",
"Letter 19: The old man, on the voyage home, has met a girl who interests him and who in turn seems to be interested in Mr. Pierrepont.",
"Letter 20: Mr. Pierrepont has told the old man \"what's what\" and received a limited blessing."
],
"standing": {
"low": 2,
"high": 4
},
"stage": "high",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 65,
"story": 8,
"predicament": "Someone of modest pay is choosing whom to marry, and money on either side threatens to spoil the match."
},
{
"chunk": 70,
"story": 8,
"predicament": "Someone who made one bad match tries to balance it with the opposite mistake, and is mocked for both."
},
{
"chunk": 158,
"story": 18,
"predicament": "Someone on a modest salary seems serious about a sensible partner, and must weigh whether their means will carry a marriage."
},
{
"chunk": 159,
"story": 18,
"predicament": "Someone is tempted to marry a charming heir whose inherited money covers a weak character underneath."
},
{
"chunk": 172,
"story": 19,
"predicament": "Someone about to be engaged must learn how their partner behaves in ordinary daily life, not only at their best."
},
{
"chunk": 173,
"story": 19,
"predicament": "Someone about to marry needs to know how their partner behaves when angry or crossed over money."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Size them up before you are engaged, at breakfast as well as at the theatre.",
"source": "advice:172",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+",
"relationships.partner": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Marry someone raised above the means you can give them.",
"source": "advice:65",
"moves": {
"relationships.partner": "+",
"money": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Tell them exactly what you earn.",
"source": "advice:63",
"moves": {
"relationships.partner": "risk",
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Marry a sensible partner, even on modest pay.",
"source": "advice:158",
"moves": {
"relationships.partner": "+",
"money": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Propose first and find out later.",
"source": "advice:172",
"moves": {
"relationships.partner": "+",
"flags.married_in_haste": "set"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G15",
"name": "The wrong line of work",
"predicament": "You are in, or headed for, work that does not suit you, and must decide whether to push on, switch, or wait for something better.",
"sentence": "A misfit wants work that suits them from a parent or an employer with other plans.",
"actor": "misfit",
"wants": "work that suits them",
"counterpart": "a parent or an employer with other plans",
"stories": [
0,
2,
7,
16
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 1: Mr. Pierrepont has just become a member, in good and regular standing, of the Freshman class.",
"Letter 3: Mr. Pierrepont finds Cambridge to his liking, and has suggested that he take a post-graduate course to fill up some gaps which he has found in his education.",
"Letter 8: Mr. Pierrepont has just been promoted from the mailing to the billing desk and, in consequence, his father is feeling rather \"mellow\" toward him.",
"Letter 17: Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is getting along famously in his new place."
],
"standing": {
"low": 7,
"high": 1
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 5,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "A parent who has toiled all their life resolves that their child will be handed a living rather than earn one."
},
{
"chunk": 6,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "A highly educated person thrown on their own finds that none of their learning turns into work anyone will pay for."
},
{
"chunk": 7,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "Someone who knows a great deal has to learn that only the knowledge they can put to use will count for anything."
},
{
"chunk": 18,
"story": 2,
"predicament": "Someone whose family fortune has collapsed asks for any work at all and is put off with polite excuses."
},
{
"chunk": 57,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "A young person is set on work their family thinks wrong for them, and the family must decide whether to forbid it."
},
{
"chunk": 58,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "A young person placed in the family trade tells everyone plainly that it is not the work they want to do."
},
{
"chunk": 62,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "A misfit in the family trade, once left to find their own way, prospers in work that suits their gifts."
},
{
"chunk": 141,
"story": 16,
"predicament": "Someone fallen from comfortable circumstances refuses any work beneath their old position and lives on a relative meanwhile."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Try the work you are set on, whatever your family says.",
"source": "advice:57",
"moves": {
"relationships.family": "-",
"money": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Leave the family trade for one that suits your gifts.",
"source": "advice:62",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"relationships.family": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Hold out for work worthy of your old position.",
"source": "advice:141",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take whatever work is going, however heavy.",
"source": "scene:19",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"hustle": "+",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Tell your new superior how it ought to be done.",
"source": "advice:6",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"flags.dismissed": "set"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G16",
"name": "The fast set",
"predicament": "The people around you are spending their time and money on amusement, and you must decide how far to go along.",
"sentence": "A young person wants to belong from free-spending companions.",
"actor": "young person",
"wants": "to belong",
"counterpart": "free-spending companions",
"stories": [
0,
1,
15
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 1: Mr. Pierrepont has just become a member, in good and regular standing, of the Freshman class.",
"Letter 2: Mr. Pierrepont's expense account has just passed under his father's eye, and has furnished him with a text for some plain particularities.",
"Letter 16: Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies."
],
"standing": {
"low": 3,
"high": 3
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 3,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "Someone with new freedom must decide how far to indulge in amusements, which do more harm than the hard work ever will."
},
{
"chunk": 14,
"story": 1,
"predicament": "Someone is pressed to do as everyone around them does and must decide whether to think and act for themselves instead."
},
{
"chunk": 15,
"story": 1,
"predicament": "A group of companions is following a charming leader who will slip away when trouble comes and leave them to pay for it."
},
{
"chunk": 130,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "Someone rising at work has begun spending working afternoons at play among an idle, fashionable set."
},
{
"chunk": 131,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "Someone is being drawn toward a fashionable set that looks down on anyone who works for a living."
},
{
"chunk": 137,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "Someone rising in the world must choose between congenial company and a fashionable set whose only business is play."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Do as everyone else does.",
"source": "advice:14",
"moves": {
"relationships.peers": "+",
"money": "-",
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep away, even if it leaves you on your own.",
"source": "advice:15",
"moves": {
"relationships.peers": "-",
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Go slow, and pick your amusements.",
"source": "advice:3",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take working afternoons off to play.",
"source": "advice:130",
"moves": {
"relationships.peers": "+",
"relationships.boss": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Cultivate the fashionable set.",
"source": "advice:131",
"moves": {
"relationships.peers": "+",
"money": "-",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G17",
"name": "Rivals are taking the trade",
"predicament": "Rivals are getting the better of you in the trade, and you must decide whether to explain it, shrug it off or go after them.",
"sentence": "A seller or manager wants the business from rival firms.",
"actor": "seller or manager",
"wants": "the business",
"counterpart": "rival firms",
"stories": [
9,
15,
17
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 10: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road.",
"Letter 16: Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies.",
"Letter 18: Mr. Pierrepont is worried over rumors that the old man is a bear on lard and that the longs are about to make him climb a tree."
],
"standing": {
"middle": 2,
"high": 2
},
"stage": "middle",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 76,
"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone losing sales to competitors must decide whether to explain the setbacks at length or simply bring in business."
},
{
"chunk": 78,
"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone whose sales are failing sends home long explanations about the competition instead of results."
},
{
"chunk": 127,
"story": 15,
"predicament": "Someone discovers rivals profiting from a line of trade that their firm has left alone as not its business."
},
{
"chunk": 148,
"story": 17,
"predicament": "Rumours are spreading that rivals have caught someone overextended in the market and mean to break them."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Send in a full account of what the competition is doing.",
"source": "advice:78",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-",
"flags.resigned": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Go for all of the trade, not a share of it.",
"source": "advice:128",
"moves": {
"hustle": "+",
"money": "+",
"relationships.rival": "-"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Take up the line you left to them.",
"source": "advice:127",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"hustle": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Stand and fight: you never sold what you could not deliver.",
"source": "advice:148",
"moves": {
"standing": "+",
"relationships.rival": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Go where the money already is.",
"source": "advice:78",
"moves": {
"money": "+",
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
{
"id": "G18",
"name": "Your mistake has come to light",
"predicament": "A mistake of yours has come to light, and you can own up, joke it off, cover it, or let it pass.",
"sentence": "A person at fault wants to come out of it well from the one who found out.",
"actor": "person at fault",
"wants": "to come out of it well",
"counterpart": "the one who found out",
"stories": [
3,
5,
13,
16
],
"story_titles": [
"Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.",
"Letter 6: Mr. Pierrepont has, entirely without intention, caused a little confusion in the mails, and it has come to his father's notice in the course of business.",
"Letter 14: Mr. Pierrepont has taken a little flyer in short ribs on 'Change, and has accidentally come into the line of his father's vision.",
"Letter 17: Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is getting along famously in his new place."
],
"standing": {
"low": 2,
"middle": 1,
"high": 2
},
"stage": "low",
"members": [
{
"chunk": 29,
"story": 3,
"predicament": "Someone hopes a spell of travel and leisure will give them the polish they feel they lack before starting work."
},
{
"chunk": 39,
"story": 5,
"predicament": "Someone's careless personal slip at work has embarrassed their superiors before a customer, and they answered the rebuke with a joke."
},
{
"chunk": 108,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "Someone has quietly made a profit gambling on prices, and it has come to the notice of the one they work for."
},
{
"chunk": 146,
"story": 16,
"predicament": "Someone is being publicly praised for an accomplishment that was really a punishment, while the one who knows looks on."
},
{
"chunk": 147,
"story": 16,
"predicament": "Someone enjoying praise they did not earn is made to confess before everyone how they really came by it."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Own up at once.",
"source": "advice:93",
"moves": {
"standing": "-",
"relationships.boss": "+"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Make a joke of it.",
"source": "scene:39",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep quiet and hope it passes.",
"source": "advice:93",
"moves": {
"relationships.boss": "risk",
"flags.covered_up": "set"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Take the public humbling.",
"source": "advice:147",
"moves": {
"standing": "-",
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Make sure it never happens twice.",
"source": "advice:29",
"moves": {
"judgment": "+"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
}
],
"unassigned": [
0,
1,
2,
4,
12,
13,
16,
17,
21,
22,
23,
24,
27,
42,
54,
55,
60,
61,
66,
67,
68,
69,
73,
79,
83,
84,
85,
86,
96,
97,
110,
112,
113,
114,
115,
116,
118,
120,
123,
124,
125,
126,
132,
133,
136,
142,
143,
145,
150,
151,
152,
153,
154,
155,
156,
157,
160,
161,
162,
163,
164,
165,
166,
167,
168,
169,
170,
171,
174,
175,
176,
177,
178,
179,
180,
181,
182,
183,
184,
185
]
}
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