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draft interprets vr.tr.primula as the botanical genus Primula and models its living representatives, with species, hybrid and cultivar distinctions retained wherever they affect identification or action; Primula is an accepted genus in Primulaceae according to [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A30005261-2).", "in_scope": [ "Identification of Primula plants with explicit species, hybrid or cultivar uncertainty", "Diagnostic leaf, flower, inflorescence and fruit observations", "Root, crown and foliage condition across seasonal growth stages", "Taxon-specific habitat requirements and responses to cultivation", "Flowering, pollination, seed production and vegetative propagation", "Plant provenance and constraints on handling, collection or movement" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Primulaceae as a whole and independently modelled neighbouring genera", "Nonbotanical products, organisations or works named Primula", "General soil, 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"kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Firm or soft crown; root colour and firmness; lesions; root loss; new growth present or absent", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish a viable resting plant from deterioration requiring investigation." }, { "name": "Propagation identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Seed parent, pollen parent if known, seed lot, source plant or clonal accession", "why_it_matters": "Tracks parentage and distinguishes seed-derived variation from vegetative continuity." }, { "name": "Origin and establishment context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Wild; cultivated; escaped; origin unknown, with locality and supporting record", "why_it_matters": "Informs identification, conservation decisions and collection or movement checks." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare documented leaf and reproductive characters with a suitable key and retain unresolved alternatives.", "Track flowering, fruiting and vegetative condition through dated observations.", "Match an 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"accepted-name-and-circumscription", "name": "Accepted name and circumscription", "description": "Record the treatment used to recognise Primula and interpret names attached to the plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which botanical treatment establishes the accepted Primula name and the placement of this candidate taxon?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accepted-name-and-circumscription-q01" }, { "text": "Does the supplied name resolve to Primula under that treatment, including any relevant synonym or changed generic placement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accepted-name-and-circumscription-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-evidence", "name": "Identification evidence", "description": "Separate observed identity from inherited labels and horticultural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-hybrid-cultivar-resolution", "name": "Species, hybrid and cultivar resolution", "description": "Preserve the finest identification supported by evidence without treating a cultivar label as proof of parentage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which specimen, photographs, key or expert determination supports the identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "species-hybrid-cultivar-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "What supports the species, hybrid or cultivar designation, and which alternatives remain plausible?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "species-hybrid-cultivar-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "primula-diagnostic-form", "name": "Primula diagnostic form", "description": "Capture the character combinations needed to recognise and compare Primula plants.", "rationale": "Flower colour and general garden appearance cannot reliably resolve the plant's identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-characters", "name": "Vegetative characters", "description": "Describe leaves, plant base and surface features at an identified developmental stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "leaf-crown-and-surface-pattern", "name": "Leaf, crown and surface pattern", "description": "Record vegetative characters without assuming every Primula shares the same habit or surface coating.", "questions": [ { "text": "What leaf arrangement, blade dimensions, margin, petiole and crown structure are observable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "leaf-crown-and-surface-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Are hairs or a mealy coating expected for the candidate taxon, or does the observed surface require investigation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "leaf-crown-and-surface-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-characters", "name": "Reproductive characters", "description": "Document flowers, their arrangement and mature fruits when available.", "findings": [ { "id": "flower-and-fruit-key-characters", "name": "Flower and fruit key characters", "description": "Use reproductive observations to test identification rather than relying on a flowering photograph alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the flower arrangement, corolla dimensions, calyx form and mature fruit characters?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flower-and-fruit-key-characters-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed characters distinguish the candidate from nearby Primula species and similar neighbouring genera?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "flower-and-fruit-key-characters-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "primula-growing-context", "name": "Primula growing context", "description": "Relate plant identity and provenance to the conditions in which it can persist.", "rationale": "A genus-level label cannot justify one watering, drainage or temperature prescription.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-provenance", "name": "Habitat and provenance", "description": "Distinguish original habitat evidence from the conditions at a cultivated or escaped occurrence.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-and-microhabitat", "name": "Origin and microhabitat", "description": "Record locality, exposure and root-zone setting at the resolution supported by provenance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where did this plant or accession originate, and is that origin 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"moisture-drainage-and-seasonal-exposure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "primula-reproduction", "name": "Primula reproduction", "description": "Record flowering biology and choose propagation methods that preserve the intended identity.", "rationale": "Flowering, successful seed production and faithful cultivar propagation are different outcomes.", "layers": [ { "id": "flowering-and-mating", "name": "Flowering and mating", "description": "Determine floral state and the reproductive system relevant to the identified taxon.", "findings": [ { "id": "floral-morph-and-seed-set", "name": "Floral morph and seed set", "description": "Investigate stigma and anther positions and compatibility without assuming one mating system throughout Primula.", "questions": [ { "text": "What stigma and anther positions occur, and does the taxon have documented floral morphs or compatibility constraints?", "kind": "definition", "id": "floral-morph-and-seed-set-q01" }, { "text": "Which pollination conditions and 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"seed-or-division-decision-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "primula-condition-and-intervention", "name": "Primula condition and intervention", "description": "Assess seasonal condition and determine whether a proposed intervention is supported.", "rationale": "Resting foliage, root deterioration and handling constraints require different responses and species-specific evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "seasonal-health-assessment", "name": "Seasonal health assessment", "description": "Interpret visible decline in relation to developmental stage and root-zone observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "dormancy-stress-or-damage", "name": "Dormancy, stress or damage", "description": "Separate expected seasonal change from suspected pests, disease or unsuitable growing conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the timing, crown firmness, root condition and new growth support seasonal rest or active deterioration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dormancy-stress-or-damage-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection or diagnostic evidence is needed before changing care or applying a treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "dormancy-stress-or-damage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-movement", "name": "Handling and movement", "description": "Attach collection, contact and distribution decisions to the identified plant and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "taxon-specific-action-constraints", "name": "Taxon-specific action constraints", "description": "Require relevant evidence before assuming that handling, collecting or moving a Primula plant is appropriate.", "questions": [ { "text": "What verified handling sensitivities or exposure concerns apply to the identified species or cultivar?", "kind": "action", "id": "taxon-specific-action-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "What origin records, conservation restrictions or plant-health requirements apply to the proposed collection or movement?", "kind": "action", "id": "taxon-specific-action-constraints-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 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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. 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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 Primula 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 Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Primula 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 Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula 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 Primula and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 Primula is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Primula, 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 Primula, 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 Primula 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 } } } }