{ "model": { "rank": 1968, "code": "thing-q25284", "model_id": "vr.tr.parsley", "name": "parsley", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise parsley, assess a living plant or harvested material, and decide whether to cultivate, harvest, store, use or reject it.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q25284/", "tier": 2, "score": 120, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 120, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.parsley", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q25284", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25284", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:11:08Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 9, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 89.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07b21-6129-7483-9e5a-5d1c32f1ce74\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"in_scope": [ "Botanical identification and uncertainty about material labelled parsley", "Cultivar or type, including distinctions relevant to leaf and root production", "Development and growing conditions of living parsley", "Identity, quantity and harvest readiness of parsley organs", "Freshness, damage, contamination concerns and handling history", "Eligibility for propagation, harvest, storage and intended culinary use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Other plants sharing parsley-related common names", "The wider garden, farm, soil system or irrigation installation", "Recipes and composite foods containing parsley", "Medicinal preparations, therapeutic claims and clinical decisions", "Commercial orders, pricing and supply-chain contracts", "General pest, pathogen and pesticide models" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether identification establishes Petroselinum crispum rather than relying on the word parsley on a label.", "For leafy material, compare leaf division, leaflet margins and arrangement against an appropriate botanical reference; record whether coriander or chervil has actually been excluded.", "Assess flat versus curled foliage separately from species identity; a curled-leaf expectation must not automatically exclude flat-leaf parsley.", "For root-bearing material, inspect the leaves and crown alongside the root and check provenance; a parsley-like root or a root-parsley label alone does not resolve identity.", "For wild-collected or uncertain material, require a competent identification that excludes hazardous lookalikes before considering ingestion; appearance or scent alone is insufficient." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unverified label | provisional identification | verified identification | conflicting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether cultivation advice and food-use decisions can safely apply to the material." }, { "name": "Parsley type or cultivar", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "recorded cultivar; flat-leaf | curled-leaf | root-production type | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Changes the expected appearance, intended harvest organ and interpretation of growth." }, { "name": "Material represented", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "living plant | propagation material | harvested leaves and stems | harvested root | dried material | frozen material", "why_it_matters": "Determines which observations and actions remain meaningful." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "ungerminated | seedling | vegetative | flowering | fruiting | senescent | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about establishment, leaf harvest and reproductive propagation." }, { "name": "Harvest organ", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "leaf blade | leaf stalk | root | reproductive material | mixed | unidentified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents readiness, quality and handling criteria for one organ from being applied to another." }, { "name": "Root-zone moisture observation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "volumetric water content (%) when measured, with depth, method and time", "why_it_matters": "Helps interpret wilting and watering needs without assuming that every wilted plant lacks water." }, { "name": "Leaf condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed turgor, colour, lesions, tissue loss and visible decay, each with extent and observation time", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of plant stress and harvested-leaf quality while keeping symptoms separate from diagnosis." }, { "name": "Harvested quantity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g or kg, with organ, preparation state and measurement time", "why_it_matters": "Makes quantities comparable across whole bunches, trimmed leaves and roots." }, { "name": "Harvest and storage history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to harvest, washing, drying, freezing and storage observations or events", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for freshness and handling decisions that appearance alone cannot establish." }, { "name": "Use eligibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | eligible for specified use | hold pending evidence | unsuitable for specified use", "why_it_matters": "Expresses a decision tied to an intended action and its evidence rather than treating edibility as unconditional." } ], "affordances": [ "Request or verify parsley identification before assigning food-use eligibility.", "Propagate and establish parsley using a plan appropriate to the available propagation material.", "Adjust cultivation in response to observed growth and root-zone conditions.", "Harvest selected leaves or roots according to plant type, readiness and the intended future of the plant.", "Sort, prepare and preserve identified harvested parsley using a suitable handling protocol.", "Hold, segregate or reject material when identity, contamination history or deterioration prevents the intended use." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "parsley-identity", "name": "Parsley identity", "description": "Establishes what the material is and which parsley form it represents.", "rationale": "A common-name label cannot establish species identity, and parsley forms can differ in appearance and harvest purpose.", "layers": [ { "id": "botanical-identification", "name": "Botanical identification", "description": "Records evidence supporting parsley identification and exclusions of plausible alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-evidence", "name": "Identity evidence", "description": "The agent must distinguish an asserted parsley identity from an identification supported by observable material and provenance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this material as Petroselinum crispum, and who or what supplied that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which plausible alternatives remain unresolved because leaves, stems, flowers, roots or reliable provenance are unavailable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivated-form", "name": "Cultivated form", "description": "Separates species identity from cultivar, foliage form and production purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "type-and-harvest-purpose", "name": "Type and harvest purpose", "description": "The agent must record whether leaf or root production is intended and whether the assigned type is documented or inferred.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a cultivar or flat-leaf, curled-leaf or root-production type documented, observed or merely inferred?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "type-and-harvest-purpose-q01" }, { "text": "Is this parsley being maintained primarily for leaves, roots or reproductive material?", "kind": "definition", "id": "type-and-harvest-purpose-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "living-parsley-development", "name": "Living parsley development", "description": "Connects establishment, vegetative growth and reproductive development to cultivation decisions.", "rationale": "Managing parsley for repeated leaf harvest requires different observations from establishing seedlings or retaining plants for reproduction.", "layers": [ { "id": "establishment-and-growth", "name": "Establishment and growth", "description": "Records how a parsley plant was established and whether it is progressing.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishment-progress", "name": "Establishment progress", "description": "The agent must interpret emergence and subsequent growth against dated observations and known starting material.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was this parsley sown or transplanted, and what is known about the starting material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "establishment-progress-q01" }, { "text": "What emergence, survival and new-leaf growth have been observed over a stated interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establishment-progress-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-conditions-and-transition", "name": "Growth conditions and transition", "description": "Relates growing conditions and reproductive development to the intended harvest.", "findings": [ { "id": "cultivation-response", "name": "Cultivation response", "description": "The agent must record environmental observations and flowering status before choosing interventions for poor growth or changing harvest goals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What root-zone moisture, drainage, light and temperature observations accompany the current leaf growth and turgor?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cultivation-response-q01" }, { "text": "Has flowering begun, and should management continue to prioritise leaves or change to reproductive material?", "kind": "action", "id": "cultivation-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "parsley-organs-and-harvest", "name": "Parsley organs and harvest", "description": "Identifies the harvestable material and consequences of removing it.", "rationale": "Leaf cutting, root harvest and collection of reproductive material affect the plant differently and need distinct readiness judgments.", "layers": [ { "id": "organ-readiness", "name": "Organ readiness", "description": "Evaluates the particular parsley organ against the intended harvest purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-target", "name": "Harvest target", "description": "The agent must judge readiness using the target organ and parsley type rather than a single generic maturity label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organ is intended for harvest, and what observed size, development and condition support harvesting it now?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "harvest-target-q01" }, { "text": "For a proposed root harvest, is root production supported by the recorded parsley type and observed root development?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "harvest-target-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvest-effect", "name": "Harvest effect", "description": "Records what was removed and whether continued plant growth is intended.", "findings": [ { "id": "removal-and-regrowth", "name": "Removal and regrowth", "description": "The agent must distinguish a harvest intended to retain a growing plant from one that removes the plant or its root.", "questions": [ { "text": "What leaves, stalks or roots will be removed, and is the plant intended to remain productive afterward?", "kind": "action", "id": "removal-and-regrowth-q01" }, { "text": "After a leaf harvest, what retained foliage and subsequent new growth were observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "removal-and-regrowth-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "parsley-condition-and-use-eligibility", "name": "Parsley condition and use eligibility", "description": "Separates visible quality, possible causes of damage and evidence needed for intended use.", "rationale": "Wilted or discoloured parsley requires interpretation, while acceptable appearance cannot resolve uncertain identity or contamination history.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-deterioration", "name": "Symptoms and deterioration", "description": "Captures organ-specific condition without turning visual symptoms into unsupported diagnoses.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-condition", "name": "Observed condition", "description": "The agent must record the location, extent and progression of wilting, yellowing, tissue damage or decay.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parsley organs show wilting, yellowing, lesions, feeding damage or decay, and how extensive are the observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates a proposed pest, disease, water-stress or handling explanation from an unresolved symptom?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "food-use-evidence", "name": "Food-use evidence", "description": "Connects identity and exposure history to eligibility for a specified culinary use.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-decision", "name": "Use decision", "description": "The agent must retain unresolved identity and exposure concerns when deciding whether parsley may enter food preparation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is known about the material's origin, pesticide applications, water contact and handling that bears on the proposed food use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Does the available evidence support the specified use, require holding the material for verification or justify rejection?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvested-parsley-handling", "name": "Harvested parsley handling", "description": "Tracks harvested parsley through preparation, storage and preservation.", "rationale": "A fresh bunch, separated leaves, harvested roots and preserved parsley have different quality observations and handling requirements.", "layers": [ { "id": "fresh-material-history", "name": "Fresh material history", "description": "Records the condition and handling of parsley after removal from the plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "freshness-context", "name": "Freshness context", "description": "The agent must interpret current freshness using organ identity, harvest timing, storage exposure and direct observation.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the parsley harvested, which organs are present, and what storage temperatures and packaging are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "freshness-context-q01" }, { "text": "What changes in turgor, colour, surface moisture, odour and visible decay have occurred during storage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "freshness-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preparation-and-preservation", "name": "Preparation and preservation", "description": "Records handling that changes the material's form and the criteria used to judge it.", "findings": [ { "id": "preserved-material-state", "name": "Preserved material state", "description": "The agent must distinguish washing, chopping, drying and freezing events and reassess the resulting parsley for its intended use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What washing, trimming, chopping, drying or freezing has occurred, and under which documented procedure?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "preserved-material-state-q01" }, { "text": "Which storage or preparation action is appropriate for this organ and material state under an applicable verified protocol?", "kind": "action", "id": "preserved-material-state-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authoritative identification references and minimum observable characters should govern exclusion of parsley lookalikes in each relevant region?", "Which cultivar distinctions materially change root-harvest expectations, leaf-harvest readiness and regrowth decisions?", "What locally supported cultivation ranges and symptom-assessment procedures should guide watering, establishment and flowering-related decisions?", "Which validated storage and preservation protocols apply separately to parsley leaves, roots and reproductive material?", "Where should the registry place the boundary between dried or frozen parsley that retains this model and extracts or composite preparations owned by neighbouring models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a parsley, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise parsley, assess a living plant or harvested material, and decide whether to cultivate, harvest, store, use or reject it.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 120 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a parsley, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 120 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one parsley from another, and a parsley from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a parsley, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a parsley, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a parsley 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 parsley, 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 parsley 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 parsley, 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 parsley from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a parsley, 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 parsley 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 parsley, 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 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"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 parsley 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 parsley 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 parsley, 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 parsley 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 parsley 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"observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a parsley 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 parsley, 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 parsley 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 parsley 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 parsley 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 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"condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of parsley 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 parsley 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 parsley came from and when it held.", "rationale": 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"claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a parsley 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 parsley is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a parsley, 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 parsley, 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 parsley 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 } } } }