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[NC State Extension](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/convallaria-majalis/)", "Trace leaves to their bases: typically paired basal, elliptic leaves with parallel veins support identification; document their attachment when comparing with Solomon's-seal or false lily-of-the-valley. [NC State Extension](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/convallaria-majalis/)", "Where examination is justified, establish that shoots arise from rhizomes; use underground structure alongside foliage when resolving confusion with bulb-bearing plants. [RHS plant profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4327/convallaria-majalis/details)", "When red berries are present, verify their attachment to the same plant and combine them with leaf and inflorescence evidence; berry colour alone is insufficient. [RHS plant profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4327/convallaria-majalis/details)", "For leaves suspected to be wild garlic or ramps, require a regional botanical key covering basal anatomy and reproductive characters; neither apparent resemblance nor an odour observation establishes edibility." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | corroborated | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-specific actions are justified, particularly for detached leaves or dormant planting stock." }, { "name": "Taxonomic and horticultural attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Registry identity linked to an identified taxonomic authority, determination and cultivar claim", "why_it_matters": "Preserves the meaning of the name when authorities or supplier labels differ." }, { "name": "Observed plant unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "shoot | connected rhizome segment | mapped patch | detached material | planting-stock lot", "why_it_matters": "Prevents shoot counts from being interpreted as counts of genetically distinct plants." }, { "name": "Phenological state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "dormant | emerging | vegetative | budding | flowering | fruiting | senescing | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification evidence and interventions are available." }, { "name": "Leaf and flowering-stalk dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "cm, with organ, observation date and sample size", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and comparison without treating one horticultural size range as universal." }, { "name": "Flower and fruit expression", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed colour, flower form, arrangement and fruit presence; absent and unobserved recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Separates diagnostic evidence, cultivar variation and reproductive outcome." }, { "name": "Patch extent and change", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m² occupied area and cm boundary displacement over a stated interval", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of persistence and spread beyond an intended planting." }, { "name": "Rhizome and bud condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact | damaged | desiccated | decay-suspected | emerging | unexamined", "why_it_matters": "Supports viability and propagation decisions when foliage is absent." }, { "name": "Root-zone moisture and light exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Moisture by stated method; direct-light hours/day or measured PAR", "why_it_matters": "Allows site conditions to be related to observed growth and decline." }, { "name": "Damage distribution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percentage of sampled shoots or leaf area affected, with symptom description", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes isolated damage from colony-wide deterioration." }, { "name": "Exposure opportunity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Plant material linked to accessible people, animals, food-growing areas or harvested material", "why_it_matters": "Turns the toxic-plant hazard into a specific access or handling decision." }, { "name": "Local occurrence and management status", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Origin: planted | spontaneous | unknown; regional status and restrictions: authority-defined", "why_it_matters": "Prevents garden presence from being mistaken for native occurrence or universal permission to spread it." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic organs and seek a qualified determination when lookalikes remain unresolved", "Map a colony and revisit fixed observations to assess emergence, flowering, decline and boundary movement", "Adjust cultivation using recorded site conditions and locally applicable guidance", "Divide or relocate identified rhizome stock when plant condition, site suitability and local rules support it", "Restrict access to toxic material and route suspected ingestion to an appropriate poison or veterinary service", "Contain or remove unwanted growth and monitor for recurrence from remaining underground material" ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "linnaeus-1753", "title": "Species Plantarum, vol. 1, p. 314 - Laurentius Salvius (C. Linnaeus, 1753)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Original valid publication of the binomial Convallaria majalis L. and the type concept of the species." }, { "id": "powo-kew", "title": "Convallaria majalis L. - Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:535792-1", "what_it_supports": "Accepted name, family placement in Asparagaceae, native range in temperate Eurasia, and IPNI LSID.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikipedia-lotv", "title": "Lily of the valley - Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_of_the_valley", "what_it_supports": "Common names, garden cultivars, toxicity, cultural uses (including French 1 May muguet), and look-alike confusion with ramsons.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fna-convallaria", "title": "Convallaria - Flora of North America, vol. 26, Oxford University Press / FNA Editorial Committee", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "North American status as a garden escape versus the distinct Appalachian taxon, and vegetative/floral characters used in floras." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-lookalikes", "name": "Identity and lookalikes", "description": "Establish what material can defensibly be attributed to Convallaria majalis.", "rationale": "Vegetative resemblance and inconsistent naming can undermine every subsequent decision.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-attribution", "name": "Taxonomic attribution", "description": "Connect the registry identity to a traceable determination.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-determination", "name": "Name and determination", "description": "Record the authority, evidence and limits behind the species and any cultivar attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic treatment defines Convallaria majalis for this determination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "name-and-determination-q01" }, { "text": "Who identified the material, using which voucher, photographs, key or supplier record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-and-determination-q02" }, { "text": "Does a cultivar or alternative taxon label require qualification without creating another registry thing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "name-and-determination-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-comparison", "name": "Diagnostic comparison", "description": "Test visible characters against plausible alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "organ-level-identification", "name": "Organ-level identification", "description": "Require a combination of characters and explicitly preserve unresolved alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "What leaf attachment, venation, flower arrangement and underground structure were actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "organ-level-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which characters distinguish this material from locally plausible Allium, Polygonatum, Maianthemum or other Convallaria candidates?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "organ-level-identification-q02" }, { "text": "What additional observation or expert determination is needed before identification-dependent action?", "kind": "action", "id": "organ-level-identification-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rhizomes-and-colony-boundaries", "name": "Rhizomes and colony boundaries", "description": "Represent the plant as observable shoots and underground connections within a changing patch.", "rationale": "Rhizomatous colony formation makes a single visible shoot an unreliable boundary for the managed plant. [RHS plant profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4327/convallaria-majalis/details)", "layers": [ { "id": "shoot-and-clone-units", "name": "Shoot and clone units", "description": "Separate directly observed plant units from inferred genetic individuality.", "findings": [ { "id": "unit-and-connectivity", "name": "Unit and connectivity", "description": "Record what was counted or sampled and the evidence for connections among shoots.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record concern one shoot, a rhizome segment, a patch or a stock lot?", "kind": "definition", "id": "unit-and-connectivity-q01" }, { "text": "Are shared rhizomes directly observed, inferred from proximity or unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "unit-and-connectivity-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence, if any, supports treating multiple shoots as one genetic individual?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unit-and-connectivity-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "patch-movement", "name": "Patch movement", "description": "Track occupation of the intended planting area and neighbouring ground.", "findings": [ { "id": "extent-and-recurrence", "name": "Extent and recurrence", "description": "Use comparable observations to distinguish stable occupancy, expansion and regrowth after intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "What area and boundary does the patch occupy relative to fixed reference points?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "extent-and-recurrence-q01" }, { "text": "Where have new shoots appeared since the previous comparable seasonal survey?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "extent-and-recurrence-q02" }, { "text": "Which boundary crossings or recurrent shoots trigger containment or follow-up?", "kind": "action", "id": "extent-and-recurrence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-and-reproductive-state", "name": "Seasonal and reproductive state", "description": "Interpret emergence, flowering, fruiting and foliage loss using dated local observations.", "rationale": "Deciduous foliage and seasonal flowering make absence of visible growth ambiguous. [RHS plant profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4327/convallaria-majalis/details)", "layers": [ { "id": "seasonal-viability", "name": "Seasonal viability", "description": "Distinguish expected seasonal change from uncertain survival.", "findings": [ { "id": "dormancy-versus-decline", "name": "Dormancy versus decline", "description": "Assess foliage loss and lack of emergence against the plant's observed history and underground evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which developmental stage is present, on what date and at which location?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dormancy-versus-decline-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes expected senescence or dormancy from damage or death in this case?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dormancy-versus-decline-q02" }, { "text": "When should the plant be revisited before declaring it lost or replacing it?", "kind": "action", "id": "dormancy-versus-decline-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-fruiting", "name": "Flowering and fruiting", "description": "Record reproductive expression without assuming that every established patch produces fruit.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-output", "name": "Reproductive output", "description": "Separate flowering performance, fruit formation and demonstrated seed viability.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many sampled shoots flowered, and how many flowering stalks subsequently carried fruit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-output-q01" }, { "text": "What is known about planting-stock origins and potential genetic differences among nearby plants?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-output-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes failed fruit set, lost fruit and observations made outside the fruiting period?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reproductive-output-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "site-fit-and-plant-condition", "name": "Site fit and plant condition", "description": "Relate observed performance to growing conditions and damage.", "rationale": "Shade and moist, humus-rich soil are cultivation reference conditions; local measurements are needed before attributing decline to site mismatch. [RHS plant profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4327/convallaria-majalis/details)", "layers": [ { "id": "growing-environment", "name": "Growing environment", "description": "Capture conditions experienced by foliage and rhizomes.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-performance-fit", "name": "Site-performance fit", "description": "Compare measured conditions with observed emergence, leaf condition and flowering.", "questions": [ { "text": "What light exposure, root-zone moisture and drainage conditions occur during active growth?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-performance-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes in canopy, irrigation, soil disturbance or weather preceded altered performance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "site-performance-fit-q02" }, { "text": "What cultivation adjustment is justified, and which observation will indicate whether it helped?", "kind": "action", "id": "site-performance-fit-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-diagnosis", "name": "Damage and diagnosis", "description": "Separate observed injury from a proposed cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptom-pattern-and-confidence", "name": "Symptom pattern and confidence", "description": "Locate damage by organ and across the patch before selecting an intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaves, stalks, buds or rhizomes are affected, and what proportion of the sample shows each symptom?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptom-pattern-and-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes seasonal yellowing, environmental stress, feeding damage and disease?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "symptom-pattern-and-confidence-q02" }, { "text": "Is monitoring sufficient, or is a diagnostic sample needed before treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptom-pattern-and-confidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "safe-cultivation-and-containment", "name": "Safe cultivation and containment", "description": "Translate identification, condition, exposure and location into permissible next actions.", "rationale": "The plant is toxic if eaten, while colony spread can affect neighbouring plantings; management must account for both. [RHS plant profile](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/4327/convallaria-majalis/details)", "layers": [ { "id": "toxic-material-access", "name": "Toxic material access", "description": "Record routes by which plant material could be ingested or confused with food.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-prevention-and-routing", "name": "Exposure prevention and routing", "description": "Identify accessible material and route suspected exposure without attempting clinical assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can children, pets or foragers access leaves, berries, cut stems or discarded plant material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exposure-prevention-and-routing-q01" }, { "text": "What labelling, separation or access change would address the observed exposure opportunity?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-prevention-and-routing-q02" }, { "text": "If ingestion is suspected, which local poison or veterinary service should receive the plant identification, material, timing and exposure details?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-prevention-and-routing-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-removal-decisions", "name": "Propagation and removal decisions", "description": "Assess whether to retain, multiply, relocate or suppress the patch.", "findings": [ { "id": "locally-justified-intervention", "name": "Locally justified intervention", "description": "Connect the intended outcome to stock identity, local status and a verifiable follow-up.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated local authority or land-management record establishes restrictions or conservation concerns at this site?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locally-justified-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "Do identity, rhizome condition, destination and local seasonal guidance support division or relocation?", "kind": "action", "id": "locally-justified-intervention-q02" }, { "text": "If removal is chosen, how will rhizomes and contaminated soil be handled, and when will recurrence be checked?", "kind": "action", "id": "locally-justified-intervention-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Typical white-flowered European wild type (C. majalis var. majalis)", "Pink-flowered garden forms (var./f. rosea, cv. Rosea)", "Variegated-leaf cultivars (e.g. Albostriata, Aureovariegata, Vic Pawlowski's Gold)", "Double or proliferous cultivars (Prolificans, Flore Pleno)", "Large-flowered garden selections (e.g. Fortin's Giant)", "East Asian lily-of-the-valley, often split as C. keiskei (or C. majalis var. keiskei)", "Appalachian American lily-of-the-valley, usually treated as C. majuscula (formerly C. montana)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Convallaria majalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q101818", "note": "Item for the species Convallaria majalis (lily of the valley)." }, { "scheme": "IPNI / LSID", "value_or_pattern": "urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:535792-1", "note": "Linnaean name Convallaria majalis L., Sp. Pl. 1: 314 (1753)." }, { "scheme": "Botanical binomial", "value_or_pattern": "Convallaria majalis L.", "note": "Accepted species name; genus often treated as one species or as two-three geographic segregates." }, { "scheme": "USDA PLANTS symbol", "value_or_pattern": "COMA3", "note": "Symbol used in the USDA PLANTS database for Convallaria majalis." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Convallaria majalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "German Commission E monograph on Convallariae herba as a cardenolide cardiac drug (historical; narrow therapeutic index) - Commission E / BfArM", "Treated as a poisonous plant containing digitalis-like glycosides, not a food - national poisons centres and FDA poisonous-plant listings", "French customary exemption allowing unlicensed street sale of muguet bunches on 1 May - French public-vending rules", "Not CITES-listed; garden escapes listed as invasive in parts of northeastern North America - state invasive-plant councils" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Convallaria majalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Shade and woodland garden groundcover forming dense rhizome carpets", "Cut-flower and florist trade, especially French 1 May muguet bunches", "Bridal and wedding work as small white scented sprays", "Perfumery: the 'muguet' note is almost always a synthetic reconstitution, because the flowers yield virtually no essential oil", "Obsolete internal medicine for mild heart failure (convallatoxin), abandoned because safer standardised digitalis glycosides exist", "Cultural emblem (Finland's national flower; Christian 'Our Lady's tears'; May Day in France)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Convallaria majalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Aerial shoot height", "typical_range": "15-30", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Leaf blade length", "typical_range": "8-20", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Flowers per raceme", "typical_range": "5-15", "unit": "count" }, { "quantity": "Corolla length", "typical_range": "5-10", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Ripe berry diameter", "typical_range": "6-12", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Somatic chromosome number", "typical_range": "38", "unit": "2n" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Convallaria majalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Ingestion of any organ causes digitalis-like cardiotoxicity (vomiting, bradycardia, AV block, ventricular arrhythmias); orange-red berries are a paediatric hazard", "Foragers confuse the leaves with ramsons (Allium ursinum); a documented route to serious poisoning", "Toxic to dogs, cats and livestock; vase water can also be hazardous", "Aggressive rhizomatous spread that is hard to eradicate and can invade eastern North American woodland understorey", "Medicinal use is unsafe relative to standardised digitalis glycosides because of a very narrow therapeutic index" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Convallaria majalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Common names: lily of the valley (English), muguet (French), Maiglöckchen (German), kielo (Finnish, national flower), liljekonvalj (Swedish)", "East Asia: usually treated as a separate species, C. keiskei, not as C. majalis s.str.", "Southern Appalachians: native American lily-of-the-valley is C. majuscula, not the Eurasian garden plant", "France uniquely treats it as a 1 May street flower with a vending custom", "In much of Europe it is a native woodland herb; in most of North America it is a garden plant and local escape" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Convallaria majalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Allium ursinum (ramsons / wild garlic)", "difference": "Crush a leaf: garlic/onion odour is present in Allium and absent in Convallaria; flowers in an umbel versus a one-sided raceme of campanulate bells." }, { "name": "Maianthemum bifolium / M. canadense (false lily-of-the-valley)", "difference": "Flowers tetramerous (four tepals) versus hexamerous (six); fruit typically pale or speckled, not a glossy orange-red berry." }, { "name": "Polygonatum spp. (Solomon's seal)", "difference": "Flowers hang in axillary pairs along an arching leafy stem, not on a leafless scape beside two basal leaves." }, { "name": "Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop)", "difference": "Solitary nodding flower with green marks on the inner tepals, two linear leaves, and an earlier bloom." }, { "name": "Convallaria keiskei", "difference": "East Asian segregate with generally larger foliage and later anthesis; separated by provenance and by floras that split the genus, not by a single field character." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Convallaria majalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which taxonomic authority should govern the boundary between Convallaria majalis and related Convallaria taxa where published treatments disagree?", "Which regional identification key provides reliable distinctions from local edible lookalikes when flowers and fruit are absent?", "What local phenological baseline and nondestructive evidence are sufficient to distinguish dormancy from mortality?", "How strongly do clone identity, pollination conditions and cultivar affect fruit set and viable seed production in the population being modelled?", "Which location-specific cultivation, containment and plant-waste practices are supported by evidence and applicable rules?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 38 } }, "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. 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 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"condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Convallaria majalis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Convallaria majalis is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Convallaria majalis is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies 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"life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis 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 Convallaria majalis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis, 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 Convallaria majalis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", 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