The story · The retelling test · Element
The losses
What disappeared, and what was distorted.
The part
What it is
Things that consistently disappear should be cut from the told version, since they are being cut anyway and their presence crowds out what survives.
Distortions are more interesting than omissions: they show what people expected the story to say.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
The other elements in the retelling test
The test
How the retelling was collected.
LearnThe survivals
What appeared in most of the retellings.
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