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Moderate findings
10 findings
State continuity audit
MODERATE
Chapter 2, line 19
✓ evidence verified
Past-tense narrative passage shows a present-tense verb without interior-marker bridge. Possible tense slip (TP) or intentional shift (FP — gate may suppress if inside declared register).
“In the study she found the charts. Her grandmother had marked the harbor approaches in three colors of ink, and where the shoal ran out past the light there was a hatched region labeled in her small, upright hand: NOT AS DRAWN. Maren traced”
Editorial adjudication: SIMULATED verdict (demo mode) — no model was consulted; do not deliver to a client.
MS-Q13-tense-ch2-19
Thematic class variance audit
MODERATE
Chapter 3, line 35
no checkable excerpt
Prose names faction 'Ilse' 2x across chapters [3, 6] via 1 distinct attribution patterns, but no Ledger entity (character/location/object/event/conflict) carries this canonical name or alias. Possible Ledger-coverage gap (TP) or in-prose-only common noun (FP).
Editorial adjudication: SIMULATED verdict (demo mode) — no model was consulted; do not deliver to a client.
MS-Q18-faction-Ilse
Promise delivery audit
MODERATE
Chapter 3
✓ evidence verified
Promise kind=riddle-with-decode has only a proper-noun cross-chapter match ('Ilse Marie'); the puzzle phrase itself does not resolve cross-chapter. Likely authorship-mention or incidental location echo rather than puzzle decode.
“"My grandmother's charts say the shoal isn't where the Admiralty drew it," she said. "Her exact words were NOT AS DRAWN. If the published chart is wrong, then the Ilse Marie was steering true the night she struck. She was exactly where the light told her to be."”
Editorial adjudication: SIMULATED verdict (demo mode) — no model was consulted; do not deliver to a client.
MS-Q02-prom_prose_ch3_L35_my_grandmother_s_charts
State continuity audit
MODERATE
Chapter 4, line 45
✓ evidence verified
Past-tense narrative passage shows a present-tense verb without interior-marker bridge. Possible tense slip (TP) or intentional shift (FP — gate may suppress if inside declared register).
“The minutes for the autumn of 1987 were missing — not the whole volume, just the eight weeks around the wreck, excised with the same patience as the logbook pages. Someone had been thorough twice. But thoroughness leaves its own record: the”
Editorial adjudication: SIMULATED verdict (demo mode) — no model was consulted; do not deliver to a client.
MS-Q13-tense-ch4-45
State continuity audit
MODERATE
Chapter 5, line 53
✓ evidence verified
Past-tense narrative passage shows a present-tense verb without interior-marker bridge. Possible tense slip (TP) or intentional shift (FP — gate may suppress if inside declared register).
“The unmarked envelope had been in the woodstove, unburned. Whoever left it either wanted it found or was interrupted — the stove laid but never lit, kindling still bone dry. Inside: a single page in her grandmother's hand, dated the night b”
Editorial adjudication: SIMULATED verdict (demo mode) — no model was consulted; do not deliver to a client.
MS-Q13-tense-ch5-53
Intra-chapter verbatim repetition
MODERATE
Chapter 5
✓ evidence verified
10-token sequence repeats 2 times within Chapter 5.
“It is where the water cannot reach and the family cannot look.”— Chapter 5
“Where the water cannot reach and the family cannot look.”— Chapter 5
MS-Q04-ch5-32444
Temporal consistency
MODERATE
Chapters 5–7
no checkable excerpt
Ch 5 day-counter reaches Day 4 but Ch 7 starts at Day 2, an apparent backward jump.
MS-Q07-day-regression-ch5-ch7
Formulaic repetition
MODERATE
Chapters 5, 6
no checkable excerpt
Formulaic phrase 'fourteen degrees' appears 3 times in the last 30% of the manuscript vs 0 earlier. Possible formula drift (TP) or motif (FP).
“fourteen degrees”
Editorial adjudication: SIMULATED verdict (demo mode) — no model was consulted; do not deliver to a client.
MS-Q08-72708
State continuity audit
MODERATE
Chapter 6, line 63
✓ evidence verified
Past-tense narrative passage shows a present-tense verb without interior-marker bridge. Possible tense slip (TP) or intentional shift (FP — gate may suppress if inside declared register).
“One hundred and eighty steps. At the top, the lamp room stood cold, decommissioned”
Editorial adjudication: SIMULATED verdict (demo mode) — no model was consulted; do not deliver to a client.
MS-Q13-tense-ch6-63
State continuity audit
MODERATE
Chapter 7, line 79
✓ evidence verified
Past-tense narrative passage shows a present-tense verb without interior-marker bridge. Possible tense slip (TP) or intentional shift (FP — gate may suppress if inside declared register).
“The island held its shape a long time on the water, the way places do when they know you'll be back. The bell was silent”
Editorial adjudication: SIMULATED verdict (demo mode) — no model was consulted; do not deliver to a client.
MS-Q13-tense-ch7-79
Methodology & guarantee
State-first extraction. Before any judgment is made, the manuscript is
compiled into a structured substrate: chapters, passages, repeated n-grams, formulaic
phrases, assertions, promises, and object states, each pinned to a chapter and line.
Findings are generated by typed queries over that substrate — not by impressionistic
reading — so every claim traces back to specific text.
Adjudication with evidence anchoring. Candidate findings that require
craft judgment (motif versus redundancy, callback versus drift) are adjudicated by a
language-model editorial judge, and every quoted excerpt is then mechanically re-verified
against the manuscript through a multi-tier anchor gate. Excerpts that cannot be located
are demoted out of the main report; nothing above the appendix rests on an unverifiable
quotation.
Our guarantee. Any top-severity finding shown to be factually wrong
makes this report free. Every claim in this report cites chapter and line, so you can
check any of them against your own manuscript in seconds.