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by its cultivated leaf chemistry and harvest of unexpanded buds and first leaves.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, living condition, growth requirements, propagation potential and harvest readiness of Camellia sinensis plants and explicitly identified plant groups, with traceability to their source material.", "in_scope": [ "Species identification, accession provenance and uncertainty about cultivar, variety or hybrid status", "Developmental stage, shoot growth, canopy structure and root condition", "Root-zone and microclimate conditions experienced by the plant", "Plant stress, injury, pests and disease evidence", "Suitability of particular shoots for a specified tea-leaf harvest", "Propagation material, method and establishment outcomes" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Manufacture, grading, storage and brewing of harvested tea", "Chemical composition and safety certification of finished beverages", "Human health effects of tea consumption", "Farm business management, labour allocation and commodity trading", "Regional ecosystems and soil bodies except through their relationship to the plant" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Test a claimed tea-plant identity against an authenticated Camellia sinensis reference; a common name or nursery label alone does not resolve confusion with ornamental camellias.", "Compare mature leaves for arrangement, margin serration, shape, venation and surface characters using a botanical identification key; record when a vegetative specimen cannot support a confident determination.", "When flowers or fruit are available, compare their diagnostic characters with the key to separate Camellia sinensis from other Camellia species.", "Separate species identification from cultivar, botanical variety and hybrid identification; test the latter against documented accession provenance and suitable reference evidence rather than leaf size alone." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Camellia sinensis confirmed; provisionally identified; unresolved Camellia; conflicting identification", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether tea-plant care, propagation and harvest decisions apply to the specimen." }, { "name": "Accession and planting-material provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to source plant, seed lot, nursery record, accession record and identification evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports identity checking and interpretation of inherited or claimed cultivation traits." }, { "name": "Cultivar or botanical variety assignment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded name with evidence and confidence; unknown; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents unsupported assumptions about growth behaviour, adaptation and harvest characteristics." }, { "name": "Shoot development", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Bud inactive; bud swelling; shoot extending; leaves expanding; shoot hardened; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes current growth from inactivity and helps assess harvesting or pruning timing." }, { "name": "Harvestable shoot density", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Shoots per square metre of plucking surface meeting an explicitly stated bud-and-leaf standard", "why_it_matters": "Makes harvest readiness specific to an intended picking standard." }, { "name": "Canopy and pruning history", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Canopy dimensions in centimetres; training form; dated pruning severity; recovery observations", "why_it_matters": "Explains shoot distribution and whether further cutting or picking would compromise recovery." }, { "name": "Root-zone acidity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "pH with sampling depth, date, medium and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports investigation of root-zone suitability and nutrient-related symptoms without assuming a universal target." }, { "name": "Root-zone water condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Volumetric water content in percent or matric potential in kilopascals, with method and duration of saturation", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish water shortage, drainage problems and other explanations for poor growth." }, { "name": "Temperature and light exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees Celsius and photosynthetic photon flux density in micromoles per square metre per second, with location and observation period", "why_it_matters": "Connects shoot activity and damage to the plant's actual exposure." }, { "name": "Damage and symptom distribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Affected organ, leaf age, symptom type, proportion affected, onset and progression", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed injury from an unverified diagnosis and supports proportionate intervention." }, { "name": "Harvest restrictions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to treatment records, applicable product instructions, contamination evidence and release conditions", "why_it_matters": "Prevents botanical identity and healthy appearance from being treated as sufficient permission to harvest for consumption." }, { "name": "Propagation establishment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Seed or cutting collected; germinating or rooting; established; failed; outcome unknown", "why_it_matters": "Tracks whether propagation produced an independently viable plant with traceable identity." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic plant characters and seek a stronger identification when evidence conflicts.", "Adjust irrigation, drainage, shading or root-zone management using measured conditions and locally supported guidance.", "Select shoots for a declared tea-leaf picking standard when plant recovery and harvest restrictions permit.", "Train or prune the canopy according to its intended form and observed capacity to recover.", "Collect traceable seed or cuttings and assess propagation success without assuming offspring retain a cultivar identity.", "Inspect, sample or isolate affected plants while distinguishing suspected causes from confirmed diagnoses." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tea-plant-identity", "name": "Tea-plant identity", "description": "Evidence that the specimen belongs to Camellia sinensis and the limits of any finer identification.", "rationale": "Cultivation and harvest decisions require a defensible identification rather than reliance on the name tea plant.", "layers": [ { "id": "species-determination", "name": "Species determination", "description": "Diagnostic observations and comparison with authenticated botanical references.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-character-evidence", "name": "Diagnostic character evidence", "description": "Record the leaf and available reproductive characters supporting or contradicting the proposed identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed leaf, flower or fruit characters distinguish this specimen from the other Camellia species considered in the identification key?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-character-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which authenticated reference or expert determination supports the identification, and what characters were unavailable?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnostic-character-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accession-and-lineage", "name": "Accession and lineage", "description": "Source history and evidence for cultivar, botanical variety or hybrid assignments.", "findings": [ { "id": "assignment-confidence", "name": "Assignment confidence", "description": "Keep documented lineage separate from labels or appearance-based guesses.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source plant, seed lot or nursery accession does this plant descend from?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assignment-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence justify a cultivar or botanical variety assignment, or only identification at species level?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "assignment-confidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shoot-growth-and-canopy", "name": "Shoot growth and canopy", "description": "The plant's shoot cycle, retained foliage and response to canopy management.", "rationale": "A tea plant's actionable state depends on which shoots are developing and how previous picking or pruning shaped the canopy.", "layers": [ { "id": "bud-and-shoot-cycle", "name": "Bud and shoot cycle", "description": "Observed transitions between inactive buds, expanding shoots and hardened growth.", "findings": [ { "id": "current-shoot-activity", "name": "Current shoot activity", "description": "Establish the extent and timing of active growth without mistaking every pause for stress.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of sampled shoots have inactive buds, expanding leaves or hardened growth?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "current-shoot-activity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the current growth pause match this accession's recorded seasonal pattern, or require investigation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "current-shoot-activity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "canopy-management-response", "name": "Canopy management response", "description": "Training form, cutting history and subsequent regrowth.", "findings": [ { "id": "retained-canopy-and-recovery", "name": "Retained canopy and recovery", "description": "Relate proposed pruning or picking to remaining foliage and observed recovery.", "questions": [ { "text": "When and how severely was this plant last pruned or picked, and what regrowth followed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "retained-canopy-and-recovery-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports further cutting now, and what recovery condition would justify postponement?", "kind": "action", "id": "retained-canopy-and-recovery-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-conditions-and-health", "name": "Growing conditions and health", "description": "Root-zone and exposure conditions interpreted alongside symptoms and plant performance.", "rationale": "Weak shoot growth or discoloured foliage can have competing causes that imply different interventions.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-and-exposure", "name": "Root zone and exposure", "description": "Measured growing conditions and their relationship to shoot activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-growing-condition-fit", "name": "Local growing-condition fit", "description": "Assess acidity, moisture, drainage, temperature and light against evidence applicable to the accession and setting.", "questions": [ { "text": "What root-zone pH, water condition and temperature or light extremes occurred during the period of altered shoot growth?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-growing-condition-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally supported adjustment is justified, and what plant response would show whether it helped?", "kind": "action", "id": "local-growing-condition-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "symptoms-and-causal-evidence", "name": "Symptoms and causal evidence", "description": "Location, progression and diagnostic support for damage affecting the tea plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "cause-discrimination", "name": "Cause discrimination", "description": "Separate symptoms from conclusions about nutrient problems, environmental injury, pests or pathogens.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are symptoms concentrated on young harvest shoots, older leaves, stems or roots, and how quickly are they spreading?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cause-discrimination-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection, sample or diagnostic result would distinguish the leading explanations before treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "cause-discrimination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tea-leaf-harvest-readiness", "name": "Tea-leaf harvest readiness", "description": "Suitability of attached shoots for a specified picking purpose and permission to harvest them.", "rationale": "Harvest readiness combines shoot selection, the plant's ability to recover and restrictions arising from its history.", "layers": [ { "id": "picking-standard", "name": "Picking standard", "description": "The intended bud-and-leaf selection and the shoots that presently meet it.", "findings": [ { "id": "eligible-shoots", "name": "Eligible shoots", "description": "Judge harvestable material against an explicit standard rather than a generic ready state.", "questions": [ { "text": "What bud-and-leaf combination, leaf maturity and damage tolerance does the intended picking standard require?", "kind": "definition", "id": "eligible-shoots-q01" }, { "text": "How many shoots meet that standard, and what sampling area and date support the estimate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "eligible-shoots-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvest-release", "name": "Harvest release", "description": "Conditions that permit, limit or defer picking from the living plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "picking-permission", "name": "Picking permission", "description": "Combine plant recovery evidence with treatment and contamination restrictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which treatment or contamination records constrain harvesting these shoots for the intended use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "picking-permission-q01" }, { "text": "Should picking proceed, be reduced or be deferred, given shoot availability, retained foliage and unresolved restrictions?", "kind": "action", "id": "picking-permission-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-continuity", "name": "Propagation and continuity", "description": "Selection, origin and establishment of new tea plants.", "rationale": "Propagation must preserve traceability and distinguish continuation of a selected lineage from production of variable offspring.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagation-source", "name": "Propagation source", "description": "Source-plant suitability and the identity claim intended for resulting plants.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-and-identity-intent", "name": "Material and identity intent", "description": "Record why seed or vegetative material was 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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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 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"Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Camellia sinensis and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Camellia sinensis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Camellia sinensis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Camellia sinensis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Camellia sinensis moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Camellia sinensis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Camellia sinensis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis 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 Camellia sinensis is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis, 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 Camellia sinensis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }