Module 05 Activity

Scenario

Retrieval is understood well enough to design on. Now the answer has to stay inside what came back, and every claim has to point at a passage a reader can open.

What you produce

An answering specification: a citation format, a grounding instruction list, and a support check applied by hand to fifteen answers.

Steps

1. Fix a citation format that names the document, the section and the position. Show what a reader sees when they follow one.
2. Write the grounding instructions as a short list where every line names the failure it prevents.
3. For each of your fifteen questions, write the answer you would accept as correct, with its citation.
4. Apply the term check from Unit 03 by hand: underline any word in the answer that does not appear in the cited passage.
5. Take the three worst and classify each: it added a detail, it merged two things, it cited the wrong passage, or the check flagged something harmless.
6. Write one answer that is factually correct and not supported by its citation, to show the difference.

Evidence to hand in

• The citation format with one resolved example.
• The grounding instructions with the failure each addresses.
• Fifteen accepted answers with citations.
• The term-check results, with the three worst classified.
• One correct-but-unsupported answer.

Review checklist

• Citation ids belong to the passage, not to a particular response.
• Every instruction line names a failure.
• The term check was applied to all fifteen, not a sample.
• Harmless flags are identified as such rather than counted as failures.
• The correct-but-unsupported example makes the distinction clear.

Mark complete