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    "model": {
        "rank": 8836,
        "code": "thing-conifer",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.conifer",
        "name": "conifer",
        "purpose": "any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Physical world and living systems",
        "status": "research-draft",
        "kind": "thing",
        "plane": "PHY",
        "domain": "PHY.LIV",
        "industry": "",
        "version": "",
        "url": "/models/thing/conifer/",
        "tier": 2,
        "score": 49,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wordnet",
            "aliases": [
                "larch",
                "larch tree",
                "western larch",
                "western tamarack",
                "Oregon larch",
                "Larix occidentalis",
                "subalpine larch",
                "Larix lyallii",
                "golden larch",
                "Pseudolarix amabilis",
                "spruce",
                "weeping spruce",
                "Brewer's spruce",
                "Picea breweriana",
                "white spruce",
                "Picea glauca",
                "black spruce",
                "Picea mariana",
                "spruce pine",
                "oriental spruce",
                "Picea orientalis",
                "red spruce",
                "eastern spruce",
                "yellow spruce",
                "Picea rubens",
                "douglas fir",
                "green douglas fir",
                "douglas spruce",
                "douglas pine",
                "douglas hemlock",
                "Oregon fir",
                "Oregon pine",
                "Pseudotsuga menziesii",
                "big-cone spruce",
                "big-cone douglas fir",
                "Pseudotsuga macrocarpa",
                "metasequoia",
                "dawn redwood",
                "Metasequoia glyptostrodoides",
                "arborvitae"
            ],
            "aliasCount": 131,
            "merged": 49,
            "knownIn": 0,
            "facets": {
                "substance": "living",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "inert",
                "mobility": "not-applicable",
                "scale": "not-applicable",
                "affordances": [
                    "observable"
                ]
            },
            "markers": [
                "plant"
            ],
            "lexicalClass": "noun.plant",
            "senseRank": 0,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "oewn:2024",
                "synset": "oewn-13129600-n",
                "ili": "i105579",
                "license": "CC BY 4.0"
            }
        },
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            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T00:43:31Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 2,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
            "metaModel": {
                "id": "THING-CONIFER",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.conifer",
                "name": "conifer",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.2",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "PHY.LIV"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
            "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/conifer/",
            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.conifer",
                "name": "conifer",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain conifers and their families, support identifying and growing conifers, describe their ecological and economic roles, and support learning.",
                "definition": "Any gymnosperm tree or shrub bearing cones, comprising pines, spruces, firs, larches such as the western larch, cedars, cypresses, junipers, yews and redwoods, mostly evergreen with needle or scale leaves though larches are deciduous; conifers dominate boreal and mountain forests, supply most of the world softwood timber and are planted as ornamentals and windbreaks, and they are studied in botany, forestry and ecology.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Cone-bearing trees and shrubs.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain families and traits",
                    "support identification and growing",
                    "describe ecological and economic roles",
                    "support learning"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Gymnosperm",
                    "Cones",
                    "Needle leaves",
                    "Softwood timber"
                ],
                "appearance": "Trees and shrubs with needles or scales and woody cones.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Cones and needle or scale leaves",
                    "Mostly evergreen",
                    "Broadleaf trees are angiosperms; larches are deciduous conifers"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "pines, spruces and firs",
                    "larches",
                    "cedars and true cedars",
                    "cypresses, junipers and redwoods",
                    "yews and southern conifers"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "gymnosperm",
                        "why": "category"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is related to",
                        "target": "vegetation",
                        "why": "coniferous forests"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is related to",
                        "target": "plant disease",
                        "why": "conifer diseases"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is related to",
                        "target": "temperate climate",
                        "why": "conifer forest zones"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Forestry and timber standards",
                    "Plant health rules on conifer pests",
                    "Protected species listings"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Pests such as bark beetles",
                    "Wildfire in conifer forests",
                    "Toxicity of yew"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What conifers are.",
                        "rationale": "Botany.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "traits",
                                "name": "Traits",
                                "description": "Traits and families.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "traits-finding",
                                        "name": "Traits",
                                        "description": "Traits.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What defines conifers, and how do the main families and genera differ?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits a specific species such as the western larch?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "identify",
                                "name": "Identify",
                                "description": "Identifying conifers.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "identify-finding",
                                        "name": "Identify",
                                        "description": "Identification.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How can conifers be identified by needles, cones and bark?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits a tree identification key?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "grow",
                        "name": "Grow",
                        "description": "Growing and managing.",
                        "rationale": "Practice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "garden",
                                "name": "Garden",
                                "description": "Conifers in gardens.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "garden-finding",
                                        "name": "Garden",
                                        "description": "Gardens.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are conifers chosen, planted and cared for in gardens and windbreaks?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which are toxic to people or animals?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "forestry",
                                "name": "Forestry",
                                "description": "Forestry.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "forestry-finding",
                                        "name": "Forestry",
                                        "description": "Forestry.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are conifers managed in forestry for timber, and which pests and diseases threaten them?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits forestry?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "ecology",
                        "name": "Ecology",
                        "description": "Ecology and climate.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "forests",
                                "name": "Forests",
                                "description": "Conifer forests.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "forests-finding",
                                        "name": "Forests",
                                        "description": "Forests.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What roles do conifer forests play in boreal and mountain ecosystems and the carbon cycle?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits boreal forest?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "threats",
                                "name": "Threats",
                                "description": "Threats.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "threats-finding",
                                        "name": "Threats",
                                        "description": "Threats.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do wildfire, climate change and pests affect conifers, according to research?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which findings are uncertain?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "learn",
                        "name": "Learn",
                        "description": "Evolution and teaching.",
                        "rationale": "Education.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "evolution",
                                "name": "Evolution",
                                "description": "Evolution.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evolution-finding",
                                        "name": "Evolution",
                                        "description": "Evolution.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did conifers evolve, and which are living fossils?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "teach",
                                "name": "Teach",
                                "description": "Teaching.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "teach-finding",
                                        "name": "Teach",
                                        "description": "Teaching.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How can conifers be taught in botany and field studies?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which misconceptions arise?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should each family be a separate entry?",
                "How should identification keys be linked?",
                "How should forestry data be linked?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "organism",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.",
            "facetsInferred": false,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a conifer, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "living",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: larch, larch tree, western larch, western tamarack, Oregon larch, Larix occidentalis, subalpine larch, Larix lyallii, golden larch, Pseudolarix amabilis, spruce, weeping spruce.",
                "49 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a conifer, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [
                {
                    "relation": "covers",
                    "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.",
                    "targets": [
                        "larch",
                        "larch tree",
                        "western larch",
                        "western tamarack",
                        "Oregon larch",
                        "Larix occidentalis",
                        "subalpine larch",
                        "Larix lyallii",
                        "golden larch",
                        "Pseudolarix amabilis",
                        "spruce",
                        "weeping spruce"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "49 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one conifer from another, and a conifer from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naming-and-identifiers",
                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a conifer sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a conifer from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "form-and-composition",
                        "name": "Form, composition and condition",
                        "description": "What a conifer is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.",
                        "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "form-and-dimensions",
                                "name": "Form and dimensions",
                                "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "measurable-dimensions",
                                        "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units",
                                        "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "material-and-composition",
                                "name": "Material and composition",
                                "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "parts-and-materials",
                                        "name": "Parts and life stages",
                                        "description": "The parts of a conifer and the stages it passes through.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "condition-and-integrity",
                                "name": "Condition and integrity",
                                "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition, damage and health",
                                        "description": "How the condition of a conifer is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a conifer passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
                                "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a conifer between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a conifer, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a conifer is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "taxonomic-placement",
                        "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification",
                        "description": "What conifer is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.",
                        "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "accepted-name",
                                "name": "Accepted name and synonymy",
                                "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "name-and-authority",
                                        "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms",
                                        "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "name-and-authority-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of conifer, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "name-and-authority-q02",
                                                "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "field-identification",
                                "name": "Field identification",
                                "description": "The characters that separate conifer from what it is confused with.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "diagnostic-characters",
                                        "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds",
                                        "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01",
                                                "text": "Which observable characters distinguish conifer from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "life-cycle-and-condition",
                        "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour",
                        "description": "What conifer does over its life and how its state is judged.",
                        "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "stages-and-reproduction",
                                "name": "Stages and reproduction",
                                "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "life-stages",
                                        "name": "Life stages and their marks",
                                        "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "life-stages-q01",
                                                "text": "What stages does conifer pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "life-stages-q02",
                                                "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "health-and-condition",
                                "name": "Health and condition",
                                "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition assessment",
                                        "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "How is the condition of conifer judged, on what scale, and by whom?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "range-and-status",
                        "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status",
                        "description": "Where conifer lives and how threatened it is.",
                        "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "habitat-and-range",
                                "name": "Habitat and range",
                                "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "range-record",
                                        "name": "Range, introductions and habitat",
                                        "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "range-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the native range of conifer, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "range-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "protection-status",
                                "name": "Protection and legal status",
                                "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "status-and-rules",
                                        "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence",
                                        "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "status-and-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What conservation status does conifer hold, under which assessment and year?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "status-and-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a conifer came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a conifer and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a conifer is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a conifer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a conifer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a conifer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 7,
                "layers": 15,
                "findings": 17,
                "questions": 45
            }
        }
    }
}