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"This model owns the registered kind wheelbarrow, vr.tr.wheelbarrow, in PHY / PHY.OBJ: a ground-supported load carrier typically pushed through paired handles, with a tray or bed and a wheel arrangement that supports the load while allowing the operator to balance, steer and tip it; product specifications and individual-unit observations provide evidence for decisions.", "in_scope": [ "Recognition through the relationship between load receptacle, wheels, handles and resting supports", "Load containment, rated capacity and distribution relative to wheels and handles", "Manual propulsion, steering, balancing, parking and tipping", "Suitability for the intended surface, clearance and gradient", "Condition of the tray, frame, handles, wheel assembly and fitted controls", "Boundaries and additional requirements for multiwheel or power-assisted variants" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Independent models of particular brands, product lines or individual units", "General-purpose carts, wagons and sack 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"Treat wheel count as supporting evidence rather than the sole identity test; confirm whether a multiwheel or powered design retains wheelbarrow handling or belongs to a neighbouring carrier kind." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Carrier configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "tray or bed form; wheel count and arrangement; handle and resting-support arrangement", "why_it_matters": "Establishes recognition and identifies variants whose balance and handling differ." }, { "name": "Propulsion mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "manual; power-assisted; powered; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether movement depends solely on pushing or also requires drive controls and energy isolation." }, { "name": "Rated payload", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg, with manufacturer evidence and operating conditions; unknown if unverified", "why_it_matters": "Allows the intended load mass to be checked against a documented limit." }, { "name": "Receptacle 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in mm", "why_it_matters": "Allows passage width, turning space and potential ground contact to be checked." }, { "name": "Wheel and tyre configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "wheel diameter and width in mm; pneumatic, solid or other tyre construction", "why_it_matters": "Helps evaluate rolling behaviour, surface suitability and applicable maintenance." }, { "name": "Operational state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "parked; being loaded; travelling; tipping; under maintenance; withdrawn from use", "why_it_matters": "Makes intended actions conditional on the carrier's current support and load state." }, { "name": "Serviceability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "assessed serviceable for stated task; restricted use; defective; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an unknown or damaged unit from being treated as ready solely because it resembles a wheelbarrow." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate wheelbarrow and flag uncertain variant boundaries.", "Compare a proposed load's mass, volume and containment needs with documented capability.", "Assess load placement and the lifting, balancing and tipping actions it requires.", "Evaluate a proposed route for clearance, surface support and loss-of-control concerns.", "Inspect the load-bearing assembly and select documented maintenance or withdrawal actions.", "Plan loading, movement, parking and discharge using the actual configuration and instructions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "wheelbarrow-identity", "name": "Wheelbarrow identity", "description": "Recognise the carrier through its load-support and handling arrangement.", "rationale": "Wheel count or a product label alone cannot reliably separate a wheelbarrow from neighbouring hand carriers.", "layers": [ { "id": "carrier-arrangement", "name": "Carrier arrangement", "description": "Relate the receptacle, wheel assembly, handles and resting supports.", "findings": [ { "id": "wheel-handle-load-path", "name": "Wheel and handle load path", "description": "Record how the carrier supports its load at rest and when its handles are raised.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which components support the tray and load when parked, and which support them during travel?", "kind": "definition", "id": "wheel-handle-load-path-q01" }, { "text": "Does the operator carry part of the load through the handles, or does the wheel arrangement fully support it during travel?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "wheel-handle-load-path-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "variant-boundaries", "name": "Variant boundaries", "description": "Resolve designs that resemble carts or powered carriers.", "findings": [ { "id": "variant-inclusion", "name": "Variant inclusion", "description": "Make inclusion of multiwheel and assisted designs explicit without creating separate registered things.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which handling features justify treating this multiwheel or powered design as a wheelbarrow?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-inclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which product instructions or other evidence establish its configuration and intended mode of use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "variant-inclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "load-and-containment", "name": "Load and containment", "description": "Describe what the receptacle can contain and how the load affects handling.", "rationale": "A tray can have spare volume while its payload or manageable handle force has already been exceeded.", "layers": [ { "id": "capacity-evidence", "name": "Capacity evidence", "description": "Separate mass limits from geometric volume.", "findings": [ { "id": "payload-versus-volume", "name": "Payload versus volume", "description": "Record documented payload and receptacle volume with their distinct meanings and conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What payload in kg is documented for this configuration, and where is that limit stated?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "payload-versus-volume-q01" }, { "text": "What is the tray volume in L or m³, and is it measured level, heaped or on another basis?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "payload-versus-volume-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "load-position-and-retention", "name": "Load position and retention", "description": "Assess load distribution, movement and escape from the receptacle.", "findings": [ { "id": "load-behaviour", "name": "Load behaviour", "description": "Identify how load placement, protrusion and shifting affect wheelbarrow control.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the load concentrated relative to the axle and lateral centreline, and what support force does that produce at the handles?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "load-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "Must the load be reduced, repositioned or contained before travel because it can shift, protrude, spill or obstruct the operator?", "kind": "action", "id": "load-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-balance", "name": "Movement and balance", "description": "Connect rolling, 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"id": "parked-stability", "name": "Parked stability", "description": "Relate support legs, wheel contacts and ground conditions to stable loading and parking.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which wheel and leg contacts support the parked wheelbarrow, and are all required contacts secure?", "kind": "definition", "id": "parked-stability-q01" }, { "text": "Where can it be set down and loaded without rolling, sinking or tipping under the intended load?", "kind": "action", "id": "parked-stability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "controlled-discharge", "name": "Controlled discharge", "description": "Describe the actual tipping mechanism and receiving space.", "findings": [ { "id": "tipping-path", "name": "Tipping path", "description": "Identify how the tray rotates, what supports that rotation and how the load exits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does discharge rotate the whole carrier or a separate tray, and what components provide the pivot or tipping contact?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tipping-path-q01" }, { "text": "What receiving space, operator footing and load-release sequence are needed for controlled tipping and return?", "kind": "action", "id": "tipping-path-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "serviceability-and-operating-evidence", "name": "Serviceability and operating evidence", "description": "Link observed condition and documented requirements to permission to use the carrier.", "rationale": "Tray attachment, handle integrity and wheel retention directly affect the load path; powered variants add configuration-specific controls.", "layers": [ { "id": "load-path-condition", "name": "Load-path condition", "description": "Inspect the parts that contain, carry and steer the load.", "findings": [ { "id": "structural-and-wheel-condition", "name": "Structural and wheel condition", "description": "Record defects and required care in the tray, frame, handles, axle, wheel and tyre.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are there cracks, deformation, loose tray fixings, damaged 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"instructions-controls-and-conformity-q01" }, { "text": "If brakes or powered assistance are fitted, what documented control checks and energy-isolation steps are required before use or maintenance?", "kind": "action", "id": "instructions-controls-and-conformity-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Measurement 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{ "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow, by which method, and 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"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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 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"parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a wheelbarrow is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and 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actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a wheelbarrow is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "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 wheelbarrow is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 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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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a wheelbarrow 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 wheelbarrow is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow, 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 wheelbarrow 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 } } } }