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progression and immediate conditions for continuing.", "in_scope": [ "The boundaries and current state of a dancing episode", "Steps, bodily movements and their sequence", "Timing relationships between movement and music", "Solo, partnered and group participation", "Immediate spatial, physical and interpersonal conditions affecting dancing" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Choreography as a reusable movement plan independent of its performance", "Music compositions, recordings and musical performances", "Dancers as people with enduring identities, skills and histories", "Dance genres and traditions as cultural systems", "Classes, competitions and social events that contain dancing", "Clinical assessment or treatment of movement impairments" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Record whether participants intentionally organise steps and movements as dancing; rhythmic exercise or walking to music alone does not settle the classification.", "Identify a relationship between movement timing and the music; music merely playing nearby is insufficient evidence.", "Distinguish enacted movement from a choreography description, demonstration instructions or an intention to dance later.", "Record whether speech, acting or gesture includes a sustained rhythmical movement sequence that warrants identifying a dancing episode within the larger performance.", "Flag movement without music for boundary review rather than silently treating it as covered by the registry definition." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Episode state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "preparing | dancing | paused | completed | interrupted | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates readiness, active execution and cessation so an agent can choose a relevant next action." }, { "name": "Participation arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "solo | partnered | group | mixed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines which coordination and interaction relationships need to be recorded." }, { "name": "Movement organisation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "set sequence | improvisation | mixed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a variation should be compared with a plan or understood as an available choice." }, { "name": "Musical reference", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to the music or musical passage used for timing, including how participants receive it", "why_it_matters": "Establishes what the movement is intended to be in time with." }, { "name": "Movement-to-music timing", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Movement event positions in musical counts or timestamps; timing offsets in milliseconds when a target is specified", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of rhythmic alignment without assuming every movement must coincide with a beat." }, { "name": "Dance-floor footprint", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Observed or anticipated movement envelope in metres, with uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about travel, spacing and possible collisions." }, { "name": "Participant continuation preference", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "wants to continue | requests adaptation | requests pause | wants to stop | unknown; recorded per participant", "why_it_matters": "Prevents activity-level goals from overriding individual participation choices." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and segment a dancing episode within a rehearsal, performance or social event.", "Annotate steps and movement phrases against the music used by the participants.", "Compare execution with an explicitly selected choreography or timing target.", "Suggest changes to pace, movement range or travel based on participant requests and available space.", "Coordinate entry, transitions, spacing and pauses among dancers.", "Record a pause or stop request and propose a suitable way to resume when participants are ready." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dance-episode", "name": "Dance episode", "description": "Identifies the enacted dancing and distinguishes it from surrounding preparation, instruction and other movement.", "rationale": "An agent must establish what counts as this dancing episode before assessing its execution or proposing changes.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognition-and-boundaries", "name": "Recognition and boundaries", "description": "Records the evidence for recognising dancing and delimiting the episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "enacted-rhythmical-movement", "name": "Enacted rhythmical movement", "description": "Record the observed steps and movements, their musical relationship and participants' description of the activity, keeping uncertain classifications explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed movement and participant account support recognising this activity as dancing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "enacted-rhythmical-movement-q01" }, { "text": "Where does the dancing begin and end relative to instruction, waiting, walking or other activity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "enacted-rhythmical-movement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "progression-and-interruption", "name": "Progression and interruption", "description": "Tracks the episode through movement phrases, pauses and endings.", "findings": [ { "id": "current-dance-phase", "name": "Current dance phase", "description": "Record whether dancers are entering, executing a phrase, transitioning, pausing or finishing, and identify any cue governing the next change.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which phrase or phase is currently being danced, and what indicates its beginning or completion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "current-dance-phase-q01" }, { "text": "What musical, choreographic or participant cue permits the next transition or resumption?", "kind": "action", "id": "current-dance-phase-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-musical-timing", "name": "Movement and musical timing", "description": "Connects the performed movement sequence to the music and any chosen movement plan.", "rationale": "Dancing cannot be assessed through movement or musical tempo alone; an agent needs their intended relationship.", "layers": [ { "id": "performed-movement", "name": "Performed movement", "description": "Records steps, weight transfers, gestures, turns and travel at the detail needed for the task.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-phrase-and-variation", "name": "Movement phrase and variation", "description": "Record the performed sequence and whether it follows a specified plan, is improvised or combines both, without treating every variation as an error.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which steps, weight transfers, gestures and changes of direction define the phrase being assessed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "movement-phrase-and-variation-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied the movement plan or comparison example, and which variations does it allow?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "movement-phrase-and-variation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "musical-alignment", "name": "Musical 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dancer's movements in isolation.", "layers": [ { "id": "formation-and-cues", "name": "Formation and cues", "description": "Records dancer positions, movement relationships and the cues used to coordinate them.", "findings": [ { "id": "shared-movement-organisation", "name": "Shared movement organisation", "description": "Record formations and intended relationships such as unison, mirroring, alternating phrases or independent movement, including how changes are signalled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dancers are intended to move together, mirror one another, alternate or remain independent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "shared-movement-organisation-q01" }, { "text": "What cue should coordinate the next entry, formation change or shared ending?", "kind": "action", "id": "shared-movement-organisation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-and-participation", "name": "Contact and participation", "description": "Records participant choices concerning partnering, touch and supported movements.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-dance-interaction", "name": "Agreed dance interaction", "description": "Record whether proposed contact or support is accepted by the affected participants and how they can request a change or stop.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which partnering, touch or weight-support interactions have the affected participants agreed to?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "agreed-dance-interaction-q01" }, { "text": "How can a dancer decline, modify or stop an interaction during the dancing?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-dance-interaction-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conditions-and-adaptation", "name": "Conditions and adaptation", "description": "Records immediate constraints on performing and continuing the dancing.", "rationale": "A movement phrase that fits the music may still need adaptation to the floor, nearby dancers or participants' current condition.", "layers": [ { "id": "floor-and-travel", "name": "Floor and travel", "description": "Relates movement 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a dancing 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 dancing, 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 dancing, 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 dancing 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 dancing 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 dancing, 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 dancing, 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 dancing 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 dancing from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a dancing, 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 dancing, 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 dancing 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 dancing 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 dancing between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies 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"steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a dancing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a dancing consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a dancing takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a dancing, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a dancing, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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dancing operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of dancing and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of dancing?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as dancing?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a dancing 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 dancing and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a dancing, 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 dancing, 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 dancing 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 dancing is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a dancing, 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 dancing, 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 dancing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }