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mechanical reinforcement.", "scope_statement": "This model owns phloem as a tissue system and as localised tissue in a specified vascular plant, including its cellular organisation, development, assimilate transport, signalling, and responses to damage; it does not treat phloem as an organism or taxon.", "in_scope": [ "Identification and anatomical boundaries of phloem in roots, stems, leaves, and other vascularised organs", "Sieve elements, associated support cells, phloem parenchyma, and fibres where present", "Primary and secondary phloem development, maturation, and functional status", "Source-sink connections, loading, unloading, and transport through sieve pathways", "Phloem-specific damage, occlusion, recovery, and constraints on sampling" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-plant taxonomy, geographic range, and conservation assessment", "Xylem anatomy and water transport except where they interact with phloem", "Whole-organ bark, wood, leaf, and root models beyond phloem boundaries", "Whole-plant photosynthesis, growth, and carbon budgeting beyond their source-sink relationships", "Independent models of phloem-feeding organisms, pathogens, and plant diseases" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify sieve elements and their conducting connections; sugar content alone does not establish that tissue is phloem.", "Distinguish sieve-tube elements with companion cells in angiosperms from sieve cells and associated cells in other vascular plant groups.", "Separate phloem from xylem using cellular anatomy and conductive structures rather than assuming that every vascular tissue transports the same material.", "Treat bark as a broader anatomical region that can include secondary phloem; bark and phloem are not interchangeable names.", "Distinguish phloem sap from the tissue containing it, and separate identifiable phloem from phloem demonstrated to be actively conducting." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Plant and organ context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Host plant identity; organ; developmental stage; anatomical position", "why_it_matters": "The expected cell types, arrangement, and source-sink role depend on the plant and the sampled location." }, { "name": "Developmental origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Primary: protophloem or metaphloem; secondary; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes tissues formed during primary growth from those produced by vascular cambium." }, { "name": "Sieve-element organisation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sieve-tube elements; sieve cells; unresolved; associated cell types recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification without imposing angiosperm anatomy on every vascular plant." }, { "name": "Conducting status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Conducting demonstrated; conduction undetermined; nonconducting demonstrated; mixed", "why_it_matters": "Anatomically recognisable phloem may not currently carry long-distance flow." }, { "name": "Source-sink 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"findings": [ { "id": "delimited-phloem-region", "name": "Delimited phloem region", "description": "Record the anatomical evidence defining the phloem region, including its relationship to xylem, cambium where present, and surrounding tissues.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which plant, organ, developmental stage, and section orientation define the tissue under examination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "delimited-phloem-region-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed boundaries separate this phloem from xylem, cambium, and other tissues included in the specimen?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "delimited-phloem-region-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sieve-and-associated-cells", "name": "Sieve and associated cells", "description": "Describe the conducting cells and the associated cellular organisation relevant to this plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-cellular-organisation", "name": "Diagnostic cellular organisation", "description": "Identify sieve-element type and associated cells without requiring every phloem region to contain the same cellular complement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies sieve-tube elements or sieve cells in this tissue?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-cellular-organisation-q01" }, { "text": "Which companion cells, other associated cells, parenchyma, or fibres are observed, and which remain unresolved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-cellular-organisation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "phloem-development-and-persistence", "name": "Phloem development and persistence", "description": "Track developmental origin, maturation, and the distinction between retained tissue and functional conducting tissue.", "rationale": "Phloem identity persists across developmental changes that can substantially alter its transport role.", "layers": [ { "id": "primary-and-secondary-origin", "name": "Primary and secondary origin", "description": "Connect the observed phloem to the growth process that produced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-assignment", "name": "Developmental assignment", "description": "Support assignment to primary or secondary phloem and, where resolvable, to protophloem or metaphloem.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the tissue derive from primary development or vascular cambial activity, and what observations establish this?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "developmental-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "If primary phloem is present, can protophloem and metaphloem be distinguished in this specimen?", "kind": "definition", "id": "developmental-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "maturation-and-conducting-lifetime", "name": "Maturation and conducting lifetime", "description": "Assess maturity and current function separately from tissue age or position.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-tissue-status", "name": "Functional tissue status", "description": "Distinguish developing, conducting, and nonconducting regions using evidence appropriate to the plant and season.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows that the identified sieve elements are mature and currently conducting?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "functional-tissue-status-q01" }, { "text": "Does the region contain older, collapsed, or otherwise nonconducting phloem that must be excluded from estimates of active transport area?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "functional-tissue-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "source-sink-transport-and-cargo", "name": "Source-sink transport and cargo", "description": "Describe transport endpoints, loading and unloading interfaces, movement, and transported material.", "rationale": "Phloem function requires a connected pathway and defined cargo; tissue presence or sap chemistry alone cannot establish transport.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-sink-interfaces", "name": "Source-sink interfaces", "description": "Identify the tissues supplying and receiving transported material during the observation interval.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-source-sink-pathway", "name": "Supported source-sink pathway", "description": "Record the proposed connection and distinguish observed loading and unloading routes from assumptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tissues act as source and sink for the specified transported material at this developmental stage and time?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-source-sink-pathway-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the assigned loading and unloading routes at the two ends of this pathway?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-source-sink-pathway-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flow-cargo-and-signals", "name": "Flow, cargo, and signals", "description": "Characterise movement and composition while distinguishing transported substances from demonstrated signals.", "findings": [ { "id": "transport-measurements-and-interpretation", "name": "Transport measurements and interpretation", "description": "Record velocity, direction, pressure, or solute measurements with their spatial and methodological limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which measurements establish movement along this phloem pathway, and over what distance and time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "transport-measurements-and-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "How were cargo identity and concentration established, and could the collection method introduce material from other tissues?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transport-measurements-and-interpretation-q02" }, { "text": "For any proposed signalling cargo, what evidence distinguishes transport or detection from a demonstrated response in a receiving tissue?", "kind": "definition", "id": "transport-measurements-and-interpretation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "phloem-integrity-and-intervention", "name": "Phloem integrity and intervention", "description": "Assess transport disruption and select observations or interventions with explicit effects on tissue continuity.", "rationale": "Sampling and damage can change the phloem state being assessed, while similar visible symptoms can have different causes.", "layers": [ { "id": "occlusion-injury-and-recovery", "name": "Occlusion, injury, and recovery", "description": "Evaluate local lesions, sealing responses, and evidence of functional recovery.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-transport-disruption", "name": "Supported transport disruption", "description": "Relate observed structural changes to transport impairment without assigning causation from appearance alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What occlusion, collapse, or discontinuity is observed, and how much of the conducting pathway does it affect?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-transport-disruption-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a pre-existing lesion from wound sealing or artefacts induced by sampling?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-transport-disruption-q02" }, { "text": "Which follow-up observations would demonstrate restored transport rather than only visible wound closure?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-transport-disruption-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sampling-and-continuity-decisions", "name": "Sampling and continuity decisions", "description": "Match a proposed procedure to the information needed and the pathway it may disturb.", "findings": [ { "id": "phloem-aware-procedure-selection", "name": "Phloem-aware procedure selection", "description": "Specify sampling location, expected disturbance, and the functional inference the procedure can support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which imaging, tracing, or sap-collection procedure can answer the question in this plant, and what limitations affect its interpretation?", "kind": "action", "id": "phloem-aware-procedure-selection-q01" }, { "text": "Would the proposed incision or removal interrupt phloem locally or around the organ circumference, and which source-sink connections could be affected?", "kind": "action", "id": "phloem-aware-procedure-selection-q02" }, { "text": "What controls or baseline observations are needed to separate the procedure's effects from the original phloem condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phloem-aware-procedure-selection-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "This describes a plant tissue, not an organism or taxon; species identifiers and conservation assessments do not apply.", "Cell composition 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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 phloem 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 phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem, 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 phloem, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a phloem 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 phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem 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 phloem and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 phloem is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a phloem, 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 phloem, 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 phloem 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 } } } }