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                "registry_id": "vr.tr.deciduous-plant",
                "name": "deciduous plant",
                "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a deciduous plant, assess its condition against its normal leaf-loss and renewal cycle, and choose actions appropriate to its identity, life stage and growing conditions.",
                "definition": "A deciduous plant is a perennial that sheds its entire foliage canopy in a coordinated seasonal pulse of abscission, remaining leafless for part of the year, then replaces that canopy from persistent meristems; the pulse is typically cued by winter cold and shortening days in temperate and polar climates, and by the dry season in tropical, subtropical, and arid climates.",
                "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, seasonal foliage behaviour, living structures, condition and care constraints of an individual plant understood to be deciduous, while keeping the basis and uncertainty of that classification explicit.",
                "in_scope": [
                    "Evidence that periodic foliage loss and renewal are normal for this plant",
                    "Observed leaf, bud, shoot and reproductive stages across successive seasons",
                    "Condition of persistent tissues during leafy and leafless periods",
                    "Relationships between foliage transitions and local growing conditions",
                    "Plant-specific care, intervention timing and recovery monitoring"
                ],
                "out_of_scope": [
                    "Taxonomic classification and species-wide descriptions maintained by a taxon model",
                    "Forest, woodland or plant-community dynamics",
                    "Soil, weather and irrigation-system models beyond their effects on this plant",
                    "Independent models of pests, pathogens and their transmission",
                    "Detached leaves, harvested timber and other plant-derived materials",
                    "Ownership, conservation rules and land-management plans beyond linked constraints on action"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Check whether evidence across an appropriate seasonal cycle supports a recurring largely leafless phase followed by renewed foliage, rather than continuous foliage retention with individual leaves turning over.",
                    "Distinguish expected seasonal shedding from unusual defoliation by comparing timing, distribution and subsequent recovery with the plant's identified habit and local history.",
                    "Distinguish a living leafless plant from a dead plant using appropriate evidence from buds, stems, crowns or other persistent tissues; absence of leaves alone is insufficient.",
                    "Record whether leaves alone are shed or entire above-ground shoots die back, so seasonal shoot loss is not silently treated as the same phenomenon.",
                    "Assess the habit under the observed growing conditions, keeping semi-deciduous or condition-dependent behaviour distinct from an unqualified deciduous classification."
                ],
                "characteristics": [
                    {
                        "name": "Plant identity and identification confidence",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Linked taxon or provisional identification; confidence and evidence",
                        "why_it_matters": "Seasonal expectations and tolerable interventions depend on which plant is present."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Observed foliage-retention habit",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "Deciduous | semi-deciduous | evergreen | unresolved; observation context required",
                        "why_it_matters": "Prevents a temporary leafless state from determining the classification by itself."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Growth form and persistent structures",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "Tree | shrub | climber | herbaceous | other | unresolved; persistent structures described",
                        "why_it_matters": "Identifies which structures should remain viable between foliage cycles."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Foliage-cycle stage",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Leaf emergence | expansion | mature foliage | senescence | shedding | leafless | mixed | unresolved",
                        "why_it_matters": "Makes condition assessments and action timing relative to the current cycle."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Retained foliage",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Estimated percentage of a stated full-foliage reference, with date and method",
                        "why_it_matters": "Makes partial shedding, uneven loss and recovery comparable over time."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Seasonal transition dates",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Observed dates or date intervals for bud opening, leaf expansion, senescence and leaf loss",
                        "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison with prior cycles without assuming a fixed calendar."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Bud and persistent-tissue viability",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Evidence of viability | evidence of injury | mixed | unresolved; assessed structure and method",
                        "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish normal leaflessness from failure to survive or regenerate."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Distribution of foliage loss or injury",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "Whole plant | scattered | branch-specific | exposure-specific | other; affected parts recorded",
                        "why_it_matters": "Separates broadly seasonal changes from localised problems requiring investigation."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Growing-condition exposure",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Dated links to temperature, moisture, light and site observations",
                        "why_it_matters": "Provides context for seasonal timing, stress and condition-dependent leaf retention."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Intervention and recovery history",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Dated care or disturbance events linked to affected structures and subsequent observations",
                        "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to assess whether changes followed treatment, damage or relocation."
                    }
                ],
                "affordances": [
                    "Identify or provisionally classify the plant's foliage habit using repeated observations and linked identification evidence.",
                    "Schedule observations around leaf emergence and shedding to establish its local seasonal pattern.",
                    "Investigate unexpected leaf loss or delayed renewal using foliage distribution, tissue viability and exposure history.",
                    "Select or defer watering, pruning and transplanting using plant-specific guidance, current condition and seasonal stage.",
                    "Monitor bud development, foliage recovery and persistent-tissue condition after stress or intervention."
                ]
            },
            "sources": [
                {
                    "id": "wikipedia-deciduous",
                    "title": "Deciduous - Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation)",
                    "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous",
                    "what_it_supports": "Botanical definition, abscission, winter versus dry-season timing, semi-deciduous and semi-evergreen intermediates, marcescence, function, woody examples including deciduous conifers, and temperate versus tropical deciduous forests.",
                    "url_status": "live"
                },
                {
                    "id": "wikidata-q1131316",
                    "title": "deciduous plant (Q1131316) - Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation)",
                    "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1131316",
                    "what_it_supports": "Canonical item identifier, opposition to evergreen plant, OpenStreetMap leaf_cycle tag, Getty AAT and Britannica identifiers.",
                    "url_status": "live"
                },
                {
                    "id": "wikidata-p10906",
                    "title": "Wikidata:Property proposal/foliage type - Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation)",
                    "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/foliage_type",
                    "what_it_supports": "Foliage-type property P10906 treating deciduous, evergreen, semi-deciduous and semi-evergreen as plant characteristics rather than taxa.",
                    "url_status": "live"
                },
                {
                    "id": "fao-lccs",
                    "title": "Land Cover Classification System: Classification concepts and user manual - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations",
                    "url": "http://www.fao.org/3/y7220e/y7220e09.htm",
                    "what_it_supports": "Operational land-cover classes Evergreen, Deciduous, Mixed, and Semi-Deciduous/Semi-Evergreen, including the 75 percent layer and 25 percent mix rules and the tropical difficulty of defining deciduousness.",
                    "url_status": "live"
                },
                {
                    "id": "usa-npn-phenophases",
                    "title": "Plant and Animal Phenophase Definitions, version 2.0 - USA National Phenology Network",
                    "url": "https://www.usanpn.org/files/reports/usa-npn_plant_and_animal_phenophase_definitions_v2.0.pdf",
                    "what_it_supports": "Practice split of plants by leaf retention (deciduous, drought-deciduous, semi-evergreen, evergreen, deciduous conifer) and scored phenophases such as falling leaves and canopy-cover bins.",
                    "url_status": "live"
                },
                {
                    "id": "budburst-deciduous",
                    "title": "Deciduous Trees and Shrubs - Budburst (Chicago Botanic Garden)",
                    "url": "https://budburst.org/deciduous-trees-and-shrubs",
                    "what_it_supports": "Horticultural and citizen-science grouping of deciduous trees and shrubs, winter versus dry-season leaf drop, and leaf-drop stages used in observation protocols.",
                    "url_status": "live"
                },
                {
                    "id": "aob-abscission-2025",
                    "title": "Making a clean break: contrasting leaf abscission dynamics across temperate leaf habits - Annals of Botany (Oxford University Press)",
                    "url": "https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/137/4/948/8383430",
                    "what_it_supports": "Abscission-zone physiology, nutrient resorption during senescence, and that temperate deciduous species can differ in whether chlorophyll is lost before the leaf detaches.",
                    "url_status": "blocked"
                }
            ],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "deciduous-identity",
                        "name": "Deciduous identity",
                        "description": "Establish what plant is present and why its foliage behaviour qualifies as deciduous.",
                        "rationale": "A single leafless observation cannot establish a recurring foliage habit or its boundaries.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "identity-and-growth-form",
                                "name": "Identity and growth form",
                                "description": "Connect identification evidence to the structures expected to persist between foliage cycles.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "identified-plant-and-persistent-body",
                                        "name": "Identified plant and persistent body",
                                        "description": "Record the provisional or confirmed identity, growth form and persistent structures of the individual.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What identification evidence links this individual to a taxon or cultivated variety?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "identified-plant-and-persistent-body-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which stems, buds, crowns or underground structures are expected to persist through its leafless phase?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "identified-plant-and-persistent-body-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "foliage-habit-boundary",
                                "name": "Foliage habit boundary",
                                "description": "Separate recurring deciduous behaviour from other reasons for sparse or absent foliage.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "basis-for-deciduous-classification",
                                        "name": "Basis for deciduous classification",
                                        "description": "Record the observations and references supporting the foliage-habit classification under stated conditions.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence shows repeated foliage loss followed by renewal rather than a single defoliation event?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "basis-for-deciduous-classification-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does this case require a semi-deciduous, condition-dependent or seasonal shoot-dieback qualification?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "basis-for-deciduous-classification-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "foliage-cycle",
                        "name": "Foliage cycle",
                        "description": "Track foliage transitions and the individual's observed seasonal pattern.",
                        "rationale": "The same leaf state can have different meanings at different points in the plant's cycle.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "current-foliage-stage",
                                "name": "Current foliage stage",
                                "description": "Describe the extent and distribution of leaf emergence, retention and shedding.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stage-and-foliage-extent",
                                        "name": "Stage and foliage extent",
                                        "description": "Record current foliage stages, including mixed stages across different parts of the plant.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which foliage stages are present, and on which parts of the plant?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "stage-and-foliage-extent-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How much foliage remains relative to a stated full-foliage reference, and how was this estimated?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "stage-and-foliage-extent-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "seasonal-pattern",
                                "name": "Seasonal pattern",
                                "description": "Compare dated transitions with the individual's history and relevant reference observations.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "transition-history-and-variation",
                                        "name": "Transition history and variation",
                                        "description": "Preserve observed transition intervals and uncertainty about whether a change is unusual.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "When were leaf emergence, senescence and leaf loss observed in this and previous cycles?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "transition-history-and-variation-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which local observations or references support the expected timing, and how comparable are their growing conditions?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "transition-history-and-variation-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "leafless-viability-and-injury",
                        "name": "Leafless viability and injury",
                        "description": "Assess survival and damage without treating foliage absence as a diagnosis.",
                        "rationale": "Normal leaflessness can obscure injury, while abnormal defoliation can resemble a normal seasonal phase.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "persistent-tissue-condition",
                                "name": "Persistent-tissue condition",
                                "description": "Assess structures that support survival and subsequent foliage renewal.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-of-survival-and-renewal",
                                        "name": "Evidence of survival and renewal",
                                        "description": "Record structure-specific evidence of living tissue, viable buds, injury or unresolved condition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What observations support viability or injury in the plant's persistent tissues and renewal buds?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "evidence-of-survival-and-renewal-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What minimally damaging observation or qualified assessment could resolve uncertain viability?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "evidence-of-survival-and-renewal-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "unexpected-foliage-change",
                                "name": "Unexpected foliage change",
                                "description": "Characterise departures from the expected foliage cycle before attributing a cause.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "defoliation-and-failed-renewal",
                                        "name": "Defoliation and failed renewal",
                                        "description": "Record unusual leaf loss, uneven bud opening or absent renewal together with competing explanations.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do the timing, distribution and associated symptoms differ from this plant's expected seasonal shedding or renewal?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "defoliation-and-failed-renewal-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which observations would distinguish seasonal variation from water stress, tissue injury, herbivory or disease?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "defoliation-and-failed-renewal-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "growing-conditions-and-seasonal-exposure",
                        "name": "Growing conditions and seasonal exposure",
                        "description": "Relate foliage behaviour and tissue condition to the plant's actual surroundings.",
                        "rationale": "Interpretation of deciduous behaviour requires local exposure history and cannot rely on calendar season alone.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "environmental-history",
                                "name": "Environmental history",
                                "description": "Connect observed foliage transitions with dated conditions while separating association from established cause.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "conditions-around-transitions",
                                        "name": "Conditions around transitions",
                                        "description": "Record relevant moisture, temperature and light conditions before and during foliage changes.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What temperature, root-zone moisture and light observations cover the period preceding this foliage transition?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "conditions-around-transitions-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence supports attributing this plant's leaf loss or renewal to particular conditions?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "conditions-around-transitions-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "site-and-cultivation-context",
                                "name": "Site and cultivation context",
                                "description": "Identify growing arrangements that affect how seasonal expectations should be applied.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "context-for-seasonal-expectations",
                                        "name": "Context for seasonal expectations",
                                        "description": "Record outdoor, indoor, container and managed-environment conditions relevant to foliage retention and renewal.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the plant exposed to local outdoor seasons, or are light, temperature or water availability substantially controlled?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "context-for-seasonal-expectations-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What recent relocation, sheltering or cultivation changes could make earlier foliage-cycle observations less comparable?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "context-for-seasonal-expectations-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "season-aware-care",
                        "name": "Season-aware care",
                        "description": "Choose and evaluate interventions using foliage stage, plant identity and evidence of condition.",
                        "rationale": "Leaflessness alone does not establish that pruning, transplanting or a change in watering is appropriate.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "intervention-selection",
                                "name": "Intervention selection",
                                "description": "Link proposed care to a specific need and a supported timing decision.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "justified-action-and-timing",
                                        "name": "Justified action and timing",
                                        "description": "Record the intended benefit, supporting guidance and relevant seasonal or condition constraints for an intervention.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What observed need justifies watering, pruning, transplanting or another intervention at the current foliage stage?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "justified-action-and-timing-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which plant-specific guidance and condition evidence support acting now or deferring the intervention?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "justified-action-and-timing-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "recovery-and-reassessment",
                                "name": "Recovery and reassessment",
                                "description": "Evaluate outcomes against expected foliage renewal and persistent-tissue condition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "post-action-renewal-monitoring",
                                        "name": "Post-action renewal monitoring",
                                        "description": "Define observations and reassessment points that can reveal improvement, deterioration or continuing uncertainty.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which changes in buds, new shoots, retained foliage or persistent tissues will be monitored after the action?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "post-action-renewal-monitoring-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What plant-specific observation window and findings should trigger reassessment or specialist help?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "post-action-renewal-monitoring-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "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": [
                                            "Winter-deciduous (summergreen) trees and shrubs, leafless in the cold season",
                                            "Drought-deciduous (raingreen / dry-season deciduous) trees and shrubs, leafless when rainfall fails",
                                            "Deciduous conifers (needle-leaved deciduous taxa such as Larix and Metasequoia)",
                                            "Semi-deciduous plants, which drop old leaves as new growth begins rather than standing fully leafless",
                                            "Semi-evergreen plants, which keep some foliage through winter or drought and become more deciduous in colder sites",
                                            "Marcescent deciduous plants, whose dead leaves remain attached until weather strips them",
                                            "Deciduous woody vines (most temperate lianas)",
                                            "Herbaceous deciduous perennials that lose all leaves for part of the year"
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-kinds-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of deciduous plant 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 item",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Q1131316",
                                                "note": "Item 'deciduous plant'; not a taxon, a foliage habit."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "Wikidata property foliage type",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "P10906 = Q1131316",
                                                "note": "Used on plant items; allowed values also include evergreen, semi-deciduous and semi-evergreen."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "OpenStreetMap tag",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "leaf_cycle=deciduous",
                                                "note": "Applied to individual trees, woodland and land-cover features."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "300132413",
                                                "note": "AAT concept for deciduous plants."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "Encyclopædia Britannica Online",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "plant/deciduous-plant",
                                                "note": "Encyclopedic identifier recorded on the Wikidata item."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "FAO LCCS leaf phenology class",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Deciduous | Semi-Deciduous | Semi-Evergreen | Mixed",
                                                "note": "Land-cover class, not a species code; there is no ISO or IPNI taxon code because this is a functional trait."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of deciduous plant 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": [
                                            "FAO Land Cover Classification System (LCCS): woody leaf phenology classes Evergreen, Deciduous, Mixed, Semi-Deciduous and Semi-Evergreen, with a >75 percent evergreen or deciduous layer rule and ≥25 percent mix thresholds (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, citing Ford-Robertson 1971).",
                                            "USA-NPN Plant and Animal Phenophase Definitions: functional groups Tree/Shrub (deciduous), Tree/Shrub (drought deciduous), Tree/Shrub (semi-evergreen), and Conifer (deciduous), with scored phenophases for leaves, colored leaves and falling leaves (USA National Phenology Network).",
                                            "Budburst observation protocol for deciduous trees and shrubs, including leaf-drop stages from none through 50 percent to all leaves dropped (Chicago Botanic Garden / Budburst).",
                                            "OpenStreetMap leaf_cycle tagging convention for mapping deciduous versus evergreen canopies (OpenStreetMap Foundation / OSM community)."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of deciduous plant 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": [
                                            "Mapped as temperate deciduous forest or tropical dry/monsoon deciduous forest in ecology and land-cover inventories.",
                                            "Planted as street and garden trees for summer shade, winter light, and autumn colour; widely introduced as ornamentals in temperate Australia.",
                                            "Monitored in phenology networks (USA-NPN, Budburst) as climate-sensitive dates of budburst, colouring and leaf fall.",
                                            "Used as an identification character where deciduous and evergreen oaks grow side by side (southern California, southeastern United States).",
                                            "Harvested as timber; North American forestry often treats 'hardwoods' as the deciduous broadleaf set, while larch is a deciduous conifer.",
                                            "Many taxa flower while leafless, which improves wind pollen travel or floral visibility to insects.",
                                            "Leaf litter and pre-abscission nutrient withdrawal feed soil organic matter and internal nitrogen stores used at spring flush."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of deciduous plant 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": "Leafless interval",
                                                "typical_range": "weeks to several months each year (temperate winter or tropical dry season; local streams and water tables can shorten it)",
                                                "unit": "days"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Autumn colour and leaf drop (temperate Northern Hemisphere)",
                                                "typical_range": "late September to early November in most temperate districts; from August in sub-Arctic Alaska; November-December in the subtropical southern United States",
                                                "unit": "calendar date / day of year"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Canopy fullness (USA-NPN observer bins)",
                                                "typical_range": "<5; 5-24; 25-49; 50-74; 75-94; ≥95",
                                                "unit": "percent of potential canopy"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "FAO deciduous-layer threshold",
                                                "typical_range": ">75 of a woody layer must show deciduous phenology to class the layer Deciduous; Mixed requires each component ≥25",
                                                "unit": "percent of layer"
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-measurements-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of deciduous plant 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": [
                                            "Frost killing flowers that open in the leafless season.",
                                            "Water stress when flowering coincides with the dry season in drought-deciduous taxa.",
                                            "Annual canopy replacement cost: the whole leaf area must be rebuilt each growing season.",
                                            "Incomplete abscission (marcescence), so dead leaves hang until wind or ice strips them.",
                                            "Climate mismatch: a late spring freeze after early leaf-out, or a canopy still in leaf during glaze ice, undoes the usual leafless-season protection against ice breakage.",
                                            "Drought or other stress triggering premature chlorophyll breakdown and leaf drop outside the normal window.",
                                            "Desynchronised leaf drop within one stand where water tables or slope aspect differ, which complicates phenology and land-cover labels."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of deciduous plant 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": [
                                            "Temperate and polar practice names the habit winter-deciduous or summergreen; tropical, subtropical and arid practice names it drought-deciduous, raingreen, dry-season deciduous or monsoon deciduous.",
                                            "FAO notes that tropical deciduousness is hard to define because the same species may be deciduous in one district and evergreen in another, so semi-deciduous/semi-evergreen classes are used.",
                                            "Native deciduous woody floras are concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere; Wikipedia notes distinct autumn colour mainly in southern South America, New Zealand's South Island, Tasmania and Victoria among Southern Hemisphere regions, and deciduous street trees in Australia are largely introduced.",
                                            "Autumn colour is typically strongest in New England and southeastern Canada; weaker in maritime Europe, the warm southern United States, and western North America where evergreens dominate.",
                                            "Spanish and other Romance usage prefers caducifolio/caduc; English horticulture and forestry say deciduous; Chinese uses 落葉植物.",
                                            "North American forestry 'hardwood' is often treated as synonymous with deciduous broadleaf, which mis-files deciduous conifers such as larch."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of deciduous plant 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": "Evergreen plant",
                                                "difference": "An evergreen is never entirely without green foliage because leaves are shed on a rolling schedule; a deciduous plant has a true leafless interval."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Semi-deciduous plant",
                                                "difference": "Semi-deciduous plants drop old leaves as new ones appear, so old and new canopies overlap; deciduous plants stand leafless for a period."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Semi-evergreen plant",
                                                "difference": "Semi-evergreens keep some live leaves through winter or drought and become more deciduous only in colder sites; test is residual live winter/dry-season foliage, not a bare crown."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Marcescent foliage",
                                                "difference": "Marcescent leaves are dead but still attached (oaks, beeches, especially juveniles); true abscission has occurred only when the petiole has separated and a leaf scar is exposed."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Caducous organs (petals, sepals, fruit)",
                                                "difference": "Botanical 'deciduous/caducous' can describe any part that falls at maturity; the plant-habit sense requires seasonal loss of the whole foliage canopy, not a single floral organ."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Annual plant",
                                                "difference": "An annual dies after one season; a deciduous perennial remains alive through the leafless interval via woody stems or other perennating organs."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Evergreen oak (and other evergreen broadleaves)",
                                                "difference": "Where deciduous and evergreen oaks co-occur, winter or dry-season inspection of the crown separates them; leaf habit is not implied by being an oak."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Hardwood (forestry class)",
                                                "difference": "Hardwood usually means dicot timber, not leaf habit; larch is deciduous but a conifer/softwood, so wood anatomy or gymnosperm versus angiosperm identity is the separating test."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of deciduous plant this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Does the registry intend deciduous plant to include herbaceous plants with seasonal shoot dieback, or only plants whose leaf shedding is distinct from loss of their supporting shoots?",
                "What operational boundary should separate deciduous, semi-deciduous and condition-dependent foliage retention, and what observation period is sufficient?",
                "Which researched sources provide reliable expectations for leaf loss and renewal across the taxa and climates this entry must cover?",
                "Which minimally damaging viability assessments are appropriate for different growth forms, and when is specialist assessment needed?",
                "What plant-specific evidence should govern pruning, transplanting and watering decisions during leafless periods and renewed growth?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 11,
                "findings": 18,
                "questions": 28
            }
        },
        "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. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "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 deciduous plant, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a deciduous plant, assess its condition against its normal leaf-loss and renewal cycle, and choose actions appropriate to its identity, life stage and growing conditions.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "living",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "autonomous",
                "mobility": "self-moving"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: wintergreen plants, Drought deciduous.",
                "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 64 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "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 deciduous plant, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.",
                "Acts on its own behalf.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "wintergreen plants",
                        "Drought deciduous"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 64 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 deciduous plant from another, and a deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant and the stages it passes through.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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 deciduous plant is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant, 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 deciduous plant 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
            }
        }
    }
}