{ "model": { "rank": 4616, "code": "thing-q133201", "model_id": "vr.tr.squash", "name": "squash", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise squash activity, assess playing conditions and match state, and identify appropriate participation, coaching or officiating actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q133201/", "tier": 2, "score": 74, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "women's squash" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 74, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.squash", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q133201", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133201", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:37:50Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.8, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087e3-2714-75e1-80d2-3c0773da7bdf\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"This model owns squash as the racket sport in which opponents alternate returns against a shared front wall, including its playing arrangements, rally processes, competitive state and practice activities; this interpretation is provisional because the registry supplies no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of squash and its singles, doubles and adapted playing formats", "Court, racket and ball suitability for the intended squash activity", "Serving, returning, movement and rally progression", "Scoring, interference decisions and match administration under an identified ruleset", "Squash-specific skill practice, workload and safe participation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Squash plants, fruits and food products", "Squash beverages and the general action of crushing or compressing", "Racquetball, racketball and other neighbouring racket sports as independently governed activities", "Court construction engineering and sports equipment manufacturing", "Medical diagnosis, injury treatment and general athlete health management", "Club business operations and tournament commercial management" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Participants understand the activity as squash and identify a compatible playing format or governing ruleset; the name alone does not establish the sporting sense.", "Opponents share a playing court and direct returns to a front wall rather than exchanging shots across a dividing net.", "Legal-return assessment depends on wall and floor contacts, court markings and the permitted bounce sequence.", "Movement to retrieve the next shot interacts with an opponent's need for access and swing space, making interference assessment part of play.", "Court layout, ball specification, racket specification and service procedure jointly distinguish the selected squash format from racquetball or racketball." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Playing format", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Singles, doubles or identified adapted format", "why_it_matters": "Determines participant roles, applicable playing arrangements and which comparisons are meaningful." }, { "name": "Applicable ruleset", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named governing document, version, effective date and any local modifications", "why_it_matters": "Grounds decisions about service, scoring, interference and permitted equipment." }, { "name": "Court readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unchecked, ready, restricted or unsuitable, with recorded reasons", "why_it_matters": "Connects surface condition, markings, visibility and available space to a decision about starting or continuing play." }, { "name": "Ball suitability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Ball specification and observed behaviour relative to players, temperature, warm-up and format", "why_it_matters": "Ball behaviour affects rally continuity and the appropriateness of a practice or match." }, { "name": "Rally state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Awaiting service, in play, stopped for a decision or concluded", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the next action is a serve, return, adjudication or score update." }, { "name": "Competitive state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Points, games, server, service side and match status under the selected ruleset", "why_it_matters": "Supports correct continuation without assuming a universal scoring format." }, { "name": "Interference episode", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Striker, opponent, ball trajectory, access route, swing space, available evidence and decision", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to distinguish a recorded decision from an uncertain reconstruction." }, { "name": "Shot outcome", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded shot type, intended target, achieved placement and rally consequence", "why_it_matters": "Separates tactical intention from execution and supports focused coaching." }, { "name": "Rally duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds, with explicit start and stop conventions", "why_it_matters": "Supports workload assessment and comparison of practice tasks." }, { "name": "Movement recovery", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed recovery position and readiness relative to the next likely return", "why_it_matters": "Captures court coverage without treating movement to one fixed location as appropriate after every shot." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a described activity as squash or flag unresolved confusion with a neighbouring sport.", "Check whether the court, equipment and ball behaviour support the intended session.", "Track rallies, service and score against an explicitly selected ruleset.", "Structure evidence for an interference decision and identify when an authorised official must resolve uncertainty.", "Select squash drills targeting shot placement, retrieval, recovery or tactical choice.", "Recommend pausing or modifying play when observed court conditions, player readiness or interference create an immediate concern." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sport-identity-and-format", "name": "Sport identity and format", "description": "Establishes which sporting sense and playing arrangement the entry represents.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and squash shares terminology and playing features with neighbouring activities.", "layers": [ { "id": "squash-sense-and-boundaries", "name": "Squash sense and boundaries", "description": "Tests whether an observed or described activity belongs to this sporting concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "identify-squash-from-combined-evidence", "name": "Identify squash from combined evidence", "description": "Record the participants' terminology, front-wall return pattern, court markings and equipment together; no isolated label or feature should settle an ambiguous identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes that this registry entry denotes the racket sport?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identify-squash-from-combined-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed court, ball or service features distinguish this activity from racquetball or racketball?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identify-squash-from-combined-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "format-and-rule-authority", "name": "Format and rule authority", "description": "Connects the session to its participants, format and governing instructions.", "findings": [ { "id": "bind-session-to-applicable-rules", "name": "Bind the session to applicable rules", "description": "Record singles, doubles or adapted play together with the rules document and any agreed modifications before evaluating compliance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which squash format is being played, and how are players assigned to opposing sides?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bind-session-to-applicable-rules-q01" }, { "text": "Which rule version or organiser instruction governs this session?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bind-session-to-applicable-rules-q02" }, { "text": "Which adaptations change ordinary service, scoring or movement expectations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bind-session-to-applicable-rules-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "court-ball-and-readiness", "name": "Court, ball and readiness", "description": "Assesses the playing environment and equipment as conditions for squash activity.", "rationale": "Squash depends on playable wall and floor surfaces, meaningful court boundaries and a ball suitable for the participants and conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "court-playability", "name": "Court playability", "description": "Examines the surfaces, markings and spaces that determine playable returns and movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "assess-squash-court-readiness", "name": "Assess squash court readiness", "description": "Record the visibility of service and out markings, relevant front-wall boundaries, floor traction and obstructions before treating a court as ready.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the boundaries needed to judge serves and returns visible and appropriate to the selected format?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assess-squash-court-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which surface defects, moisture or obstructions require correction or a pause before play?", "kind": "action", "id": "assess-squash-court-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "equipment-and-ball-behaviour", "name": "Equipment and ball behaviour", "description": "Relates racket condition, ball selection and preparation to the intended activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "match-equipment-to-session", "name": "Match equipment to the session", "description": "Record racket condition, ball specification, ball preparation and observed bounce rather than inferring suitability solely from a product label.", "questions": [ { "text": "What ball specification is in use, and what source explains its intended playing conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "match-equipment-to-session-q01" }, { "text": "Does the prepared ball support the intended rally task for these players under current conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "match-equipment-to-session-q02" }, { "text": "What equipment replacement, further preparation or protective equipment is needed before starting?", "kind": "action", "id": "match-equipment-to-session-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rally-and-match-adjudication", "name": "Rally and match adjudication", "description": "Represents legal play, competitive progression and decisions that interrupt or conclude rallies.", "rationale": "A squash agent must connect observed ball and player events to match state while preserving uncertainty in contested decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "service-returns-and-score", "name": "Service, returns and score", "description": "Tracks the events that start, sustain and conclude a rally.", "findings": [ { "id": "derive-score-from-rally-events", "name": "Derive score from rally events", "description": "Record service position, striker sequence, relevant wall and floor contacts and the reason a rally ended before updating points, games or service.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed contact or boundary event establishes whether the serve or return was legal?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "derive-score-from-rally-events-q01" }, { "text": "How does the recorded rally outcome change score, server and service side under the selected rules?", "kind": "action", "id": "derive-score-from-rally-events-q02" }, { "text": "Which unresolved event prevents a reliable match-state update?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "derive-score-from-rally-events-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-interference-and-decisions", "name": "Access, interference and decisions", "description": "Examines encounters between an opponent's movement and the striker's opportunity to play the ball.", "findings": [ { "id": "record-interference-before-judging", "name": "Record interference before judging", "description": "Capture ball position, player paths, access, swing space, efforts to clear and the official's decision, distinguishing observations from interpretations of let, no-let or stroke provisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows the striker's access to the ball and available space to make the return?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "record-interference-before-judging-q01" }, { "text": "Which applicable rule and authorised decision support the recorded interference outcome?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "record-interference-before-judging-q02" }, { "text": "Should the agent request an official's decision or advise stopping instead of encouraging a potentially unsafe swing?", "kind": "action", "id": "record-interference-before-judging-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "squash-performance-and-practice", "name": "Squash performance and practice", "description": "Connects shot choices, movement and exertion to purposeful squash development.", "rationale": "Useful squash practice requires attention to wall-based placement, 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or recovery problem?", "kind": "action", "id": "link-shot-intent-to-next-position-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "practice-demand-and-progression", "name": "Practice demand and progression", "description": "Matches squash practice difficulty and rally demands to observed readiness.", "findings": [ { "id": "adjust-rally-demand-to-readiness", "name": "Adjust rally demand to readiness", "description": "Record drill constraints, rally duration, recovery intervals and signs of deteriorating movement or racket control to guide session adjustments.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rally duration, recovery interval and movement pattern does this drill impose?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "adjust-rally-demand-to-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Does fatigue coincide with late retrieval, reduced swing control or repeated interference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "adjust-rally-demand-to-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Should the next block change pace, target area, feeding pattern, ball choice or recovery 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "women's squash" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 74 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 squash from another, and a squash from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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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 squash 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 squash, 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 squash, 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 squash 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 squash 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 squash, 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 squash, 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 squash 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 squash from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a squash, 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 squash, 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 squash 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 squash 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 squash between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a squash, 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 squash, 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 squash 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 squash, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a squash 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 squash, 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 squash, 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 squash is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a squash proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a squash, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a squash and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a squash, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a squash, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a squash is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a squash consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a squash takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a squash, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a squash, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a squash is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What squash is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of squash are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is squash operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of squash and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of squash?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as squash?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a squash 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 squash and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a squash, 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 squash, 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 squash 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 squash is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a squash, 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 squash, 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 squash is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }