CoLA Instructions

The New York University Center for Data Science is collecting your answers for use in research on computer understanding of English. Thank you for your help!

We will present you with a sentence someone spoke. Your job is to figure out, based on this sentence, if the speaker is a native speaker of English. You should ignore the general topic of the sentence and focus on the fluency of the sentence.

Choose correct if you think the sentence sounds fluent and you think it was spoken by a native-English speaker. Examples:

“A hundred men surrounded the fort.”

“Everybody who attended last week’s huge rally, whoever they were, signed the petition.”

“Where did you go and who ate what?”
Choose incorrect if you think the sentence does not sound completely fluent and may have been spoken by a non-native English speaker. Examples:

“Sue gave to Bill a book.”

“Mary came to be introduced by the bartender and I also came to be.”

“The problem perceives easily.”