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scythe-shaped props" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A working scythe has a blade mounted near one end of a long handle, with a configuration intended for sweeping cuts through standing vegetation.", "Distinguish it from a sickle by the long-handle, normally two-handed operating arrangement rather than a short handle held close to the curved blade.", "Distinguish it from a brush hook by evidence that its blade and mounting support a mowing sweep rather than primarily a chopping stroke.", "Distinguish it from a powered mower by the absence of a powered cutting drive: the operator's swing moves the cutting edge through vegetation.", "Treat a detached scythe blade as a component rather than a complete scythe; record an incomplete assembly explicitly." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Assembly completeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "complete | incomplete | disassembled | unknown; identify missing components", "why_it_matters": "Separates a usable tool from a blade or partial 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and the position of the blade during a mowing sweep." }, { "name": "Grip configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "grip count, positions, orientation and available adjustment", "why_it_matters": "Determines how the operator can hold and control the scythe." }, { "name": "Blade mounting geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "degrees and mm relative to explicitly recorded reference planes", "why_it_matters": "Makes blade alignment and ground clearance assessable rather than relying on an unexplained description of fit." }, { "name": "Blade attachment security", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "secure | movement detected | damaged | unassessed; include inspection evidence", "why_it_matters": "Movement at the attachment can change blade alignment and prevent controlled use." }, { "name": "Cutting-edge condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "record sharpness assessment, rolling, chips, cracks and corrosion by location; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes routine edge maintenance from defects requiring repair or withdrawal." }, { "name": "Operator and task fit", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "scythe configuration linked to an intended operator, vegetation, terrain and assessment evidence", "why_it_matters": "Readiness depends on the intended use rather than being an unconditional property of the tool." } ], "affordances": [ "Cut suitable standing vegetation through a controlled manual mowing sweep.", "Adjust grips or blade alignment where the particular assembly permits adjustment.", "Detach or replace a blade when attachment compatibility and instructions are established.", "Maintain the cutting edge using a method verified for the particular blade.", "Inspect the blade, snath, grips and attachment to decide whether use should proceed or stop.", "Fit an appropriate edge cover and secure the scythe for carrying or storage." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "scythe-identity-and-assembly", "name": "Scythe identity and assembly", "description": "Establish whether the object is a complete manual scythe and identify its working components.", "rationale": "A curved blade alone does not establish scythe identity or readiness.", "layers": [ { "id": "tool-recognition", "name": "Tool recognition", "description": "Recognise the functional arrangement that separates a scythe from neighbouring cutting tools.", "findings": [ { "id": "manual-mowing-configuration", "name": "Manual mowing configuration", "description": "Record evidence that the blade and long handle form a tool intended for sweeping cuts through vegetation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What features of the blade, handle and grips identify this object as a manually swung scythe?", "kind": "definition", "id": "manual-mowing-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes it from a sickle, brush hook or nonfunctional replica?", "kind": "boundary", "id": 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"vegetation-and-terrain-envelope", "name": "Vegetation and terrain envelope", "description": "Record supported uses and constraints for the installed blade under the intended conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documentation or observed performance supports using this blade on the intended vegetation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "vegetation-and-terrain-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Which stem characteristics, ground conditions or obstacles put the proposed task outside its established capability?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "vegetation-and-terrain-envelope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operator-fit", "name": "Operator fit", "description": "Assess the relationship between the operator and the configured scythe.", "findings": [ { "id": "controlled-sweep-fit", "name": "Controlled sweep fit", "description": "Record whether grip placement and blade alignment permit controlled use for the intended operator.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fitting observations establish that the operator can hold the grips and control the blade's working position?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "controlled-sweep-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What permitted adjustment or component change is needed before this operator uses the scythe?", "kind": "action", "id": "controlled-sweep-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cutting-condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Cutting condition and maintenance", "description": "Assess the blade's edge and body and establish appropriate maintenance.", "rationale": "Poor cutting can arise from edge condition, blade damage or setup, and maintenance methods require blade-specific evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "edge-and-blade-inspection", "name": "Edge and blade inspection", "description": "Separate loss of cutting performance from damage affecting blade integrity.", "findings": [ { "id": "located-blade-defects", "name": "Located blade defects", "description": "Record edge wear, rolling, chips, cracks, distortion and corrosion with their locations and assessment 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"kind": "measurement", "id": "secure-blade-and-handholds-q01" }, { "text": "What tightening, repair or replacement is required before a controlled mowing stroke is possible?", "kind": "action", "id": "secure-blade-and-handholds-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operating-and-stowed-states", "name": "Operating and stowed states", "description": "Distinguish readiness to mow from readiness to carry or store the exposed cutting assembly.", "findings": [ { "id": "state-dependent-readiness", "name": "State-dependent readiness", "description": "Record the conditions for moving between mowing, maintenance, carrying and storage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What blade coverage, attachment configuration and restraint are required for the intended carrying or storage arrangement?", "kind": "action", "id": "state-dependent-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What unresolved defect, missing protection or insufficient sweep clearance prevents the next proposed action?", "kind": "boundary", "id": 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a scythe 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 scythe, 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 scythe, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"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 scythe 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 scythe is carried, installed or relocated.", "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 scythe, 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 scythe, 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 scythe 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 scythe 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 scythe between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a scythe, 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 scythe, 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 scythe 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 scythe, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a scythe 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 scythe, 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 scythe, 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 scythe is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What scythe is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does scythe perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise scythe, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How scythe is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does scythe have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does scythe need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about scythe is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about scythe hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern scythe, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a scythe 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 scythe and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a scythe, 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 scythe, 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 scythe 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 scythe is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a scythe, 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 scythe, 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 scythe 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 } } } }