The Objective Projection Corpus: A Bilingual Turkish-English Resource for Six-Feature Craft Annotation in Narrative Text, with a Published Reliability Audit

<p dir="ltr">We describe the Objective Projection Corpus, a bilingual Turkish–English resource built to support research on a specific narrative-craft distinction: whether an emotional or informational state is declared on the surface of a text (told) or must be reconstructed by the reader from physical, non-evaluative detail (shown). The corpus centers on 500 annotated scene pairs (300 Turkish, 200 English) in which each scene is scored against six craft features by a deterministic, bilingual,rule-based detector with no external dependencies alongside the data.

Two of the six features are prohibitions (no explicit emotion naming, no simile); four are positive techniques (materialized metaphor, micro-focus, temporal anchor, atmosphere contradiction). Beyond the annotated core, the corpus includes a 60-scene single-variable ablation set, a 30-scene compliance benchmark, a hard-negatives collection targeting five specific ways a text can appear compliant while violating the scheme, and an evaluation directory containing every file needed to independently reproduce the corpus's own reliability statistics: a blind in-sample study (n=120) and an out-of-sample study (n=100) scoring the detector and four large language models against two independent human references.