year by year unspecified sense

George M. Rolph (author)

• sugar production has increased year by year from that time on ⟨Porto Rico⟩
  assertspositivesource: sugar-pg73616

  from that time on it has increased year by year

  judge verdicts (2)

  • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The exact phrase 'from that time on it has increased year by year' appears at the end of the passage, referring to Puerto Rico's sugar production after 1900, making this a fully supported claim without rewording or outside knowledge required.
  • qualifier_fidelity 0.90 pass — Qualifiers are largely faithful to the passage. The quote is verbatim and accurately captures the claim about sugar production increasing year by year from 1900 onward. Viewpoint, stance, and sentiment are appropriate. Time qualifiers are faithful: 'when' correctly references 'from that time on' (after 1900), and 'valid_from' is correctly normalized to 1901. Context appropriately identifies Porto Rico. Minor note: 'valid_to' is null, which is correct since the passage provides no end date. One small consideration: the sentiment could be debated as neutral rather than positive, but the passage's framing of recovery after a hurricane does carry a slightly positive connotation of improvement, so 'positive' is acceptable.