Natural sentences that contain *any*

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We scraped the Gutenberg Project and a subset of English Wikipedia to obtain the list of sentences that contain *any*. Next, using a combination of heuristics, we filtered the result with regular expressions to produce two sets of sentences (the second set underwent additional manual filtration): * 3844 sentences with sentential negation and a plural object with *any* to the right to the verb; * 330 sentences with *nobody* / *no one* as subject and a plural object with *any* to the right. The first set was modified to substitute the negated verb by its non-negated version, so we contrast 3844 sentences with negation and 3844 affirmative ones (*neg* vs. *aff*). In the second dataset, we substituted *nobody* for *somebody* and *no one* for *someone*, to check the *some* vs. *no* contrast. You can use our script to find sentences with negation and *any* in any given English corpus: ``python dataset_preparation/select_sentences_from_real_text.py <corpus.txt>``