Understanding a narrative requires reading between the lines and reasoning about the unspoken but obvious implications about events and people's mental states -a capability that is trivial for humans but remarkably hard for machines. To facilitate research addressing this challenge, we introduce a new annotation framework to explain naive psychology of story characters as fully-specified chains of mental states with respect to motivations and emotional reactions. Our work presents a new largescale dataset with rich low-level annotations and establishes baseline performance on several new tasks, suggesting avenues for future research.
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Rashkin et al. (2018) studied this question.