{ "model": { "rank": 3069, "code": "thing-q26726", "model_id": "vr.tr.cannabis-sativa", "name": "Cannabis sativa", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Cannabis sativa, assess a plant's identity, development, condition and measured chemistry, and determine which actions require further evidence or authorization.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q26726/", "tier": 2, "score": 91, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Nederwiet" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 91, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q26726", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26726", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:32:54Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00327794, "turns": 1, "seconds": 38.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 93.4, "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: 01a07c47-e5b2-79f3-a226-011703397efd\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Cannabis sativa\nRegistry id: vr.tr.cannabis-sativa\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q26726", "registryId": "vr.tr.cannabis-sativa", "name": "Cannabis sativa", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q26726/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.cannabis-sativa", "name": "Cannabis sativa", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Cannabis sativa, assess a plant's identity, development, condition and measured chemistry, and determine which actions require further evidence or authorization.", "definition": "Cannabis sativa is an annual, typically dioecious flowering plant of family Cannabaceae whose cultivated and feral forms are distinguished in practice by chemistry (THC/CBD), use (fibre, seed, drug) and, in some taxonomic treatments, by subspecies or cultivar groups rather than by a single morphological species concept.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the biological identity and observable state of Cannabis sativa under registry entry vr.tr.cannabis-sativa in PHY / PHY.LIV, including individual plants and traceable observations of their organs; populations, samples, products and permissions are linked contexts with separate identities.", "in_scope": [ "Botanical identification and the taxonomic interpretation used to assign Cannabis sativa", "Accession, cultivar and propagation provenance, with uncertainty preserved", "Vegetative development, flowering, sex expression, pollination and seed formation", "Plant condition, environmental exposure and suspected biological damage", "Organ-specific chemical observations and their sampling limitations", "Evidence needed to assess proposed handling, sampling, transfer or removal" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Manufacturing, formulation and quality control of extracted cannabinoids or finished cannabis products", "Human intoxication, diagnosis, therapeutic efficacy and clinical dosing", "Cultivation-facility design and commercial production scheduling", "Complete population ecology, land management and regional invasive-species assessments", "The content and interpretation of jurisdictional laws, licenses and enforcement procedures", "Commodity specifications for detached fiber, food seed, oils and harvested flower batches" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Inspect whether mature leaves consist of separate, serrated leaflets radiating from one attachment, rather than a single deeply lobed blade; record juvenile or reduced upper leaves separately. [Flora of China](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=105522)", "Use erect herbaceous habit together with palmately compound leaves and petiole characters to distinguish Cannabis from the related Humulus; a leaf silhouette alone is insufficient. [Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10154)", "Check leaf arrangement at several stem positions: lower leaves can be opposite while upper leaves are alternate, so one isolated node is a weak identification test. [Flora of Pakistan](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=105522)", "Require a botanical determination tied to a named taxonomic treatment when interpreting labels such as 'sativa' or 'indica'; record a commercial label separately from the species assignment. Kew accepts Cannabis sativa L. as a species. [Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A306087-2)", "Require measured composition and an applicable classification rule to evaluate a 'hemp' claim; record the claim as unresolved when those inputs are missing rather than treating it as a visual identification." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Botanical determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Confirmed under named treatment; provisional Cannabis sativa; Cannabis sp.; unresolved; excluded", "why_it_matters": "Separates an evidenced identification from an inherited label." }, { "name": "Propagation and accession provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to accession, source plant, seed lot, cutting or tissue-culture origin; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports traceability without assuming a cultivar name establishes parentage or identity." }, { "name": "Leaf and growth-form evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Leaflet separation, count, margin and arrangement by node; stem habit; dated images or voucher", "why_it_matters": "Allows identification to be checked against look-alikes and developmental variation." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Germinating; seedling; vegetative; flowering; fruiting; senescent; dead; indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Makes observations comparable and prevents stage-specific traits from being interpreted as permanent attributes." }, { "name": "Observed sex expression", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Staminate flowers observed; pistillate flowers observed; both observed; reproductive organs absent; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Records visible reproductive evidence without inferring sex from vegetative appearance." }, { "name": "Reproductive activity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Pollen release, pollen exposure, fruit formation and seed maturity, each dated and independently assessed", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of reproduction and movement of reproductive material." }, { "name": "Plant size and change", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height in cm, stem diameter in mm and dated differences using stated measurement landmarks", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes observed growth or decline from unsupported judgments based on stature." }, { "name": "Tissue condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Organ-specific discoloration, wilting, lesions, breakage, pest signs or visible fungal growth; severity and extent", "why_it_matters": "Separates observable damage from a diagnosis that may require testing." }, { "name": "Environmental exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Air temperature in °C, relative humidity in %, photoperiod in h/day and substrate moisture using a stated method", "why_it_matters": "Provides dated context for developmental and condition changes without asserting universal target ranges." }, { "name": "Measured cannabinoid profile", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Named analytes in mg/g or mass %, with tissue, fresh/dry basis, collection date, method, quantification limits and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents cultivar labels or an unqualified percentage from substituting for sample-specific evidence." }, { "name": "Action eligibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Proposed action linked to location, date, custodian, applicable authority and unresolved prerequisites", "why_it_matters": "Keeps biological identity distinct from permission to possess, sample, move or dispose of the plant." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic organs and request botanical confirmation when identity remains uncertain", "Track development, sex expression and reproductive activity through dated observations", "Compare organ-specific condition over time and request diagnostic examination for unexplained damage", "Associate an authorized tissue sample and laboratory result with the exact plant and organ sampled", "Assess whether proposed handling or transfer requires reproductive containment, further testing or external authorization", "Link detached material to a separate sample or product record while preserving its source-plant provenance" ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wiki-c-sativa", "title": "Cannabis sativa", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa", "what_it_supports": "Species circumscription, cultivated vs feral forms, common names, and the contested indica/ruderalis ranks.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "botanical-identity", "name": "Botanical identity", "description": "Evidence that the observed organism belongs to this registry concept.", "rationale": "Cannabis-related common names, commercial labels and look-alike leaves can create different kinds of identification error.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement", "description": "The authority and interpretation behind the species assignment.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-assignment", "name": "Species assignment", "description": "Record the determination, taxonomic treatment, determiner and confidence separately from supplied names.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic treatment and determination support assigning this organism to Cannabis sativa?", "kind": "definition", "id": "species-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Does a supplied 'sativa', 'indica' or 'hemp' label describe a botanical determination, commercial identity or other classification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "species-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-evidence", "name": "Diagnostic evidence", "description": "Observable characters and retained evidence supporting recognition.", "findings": [ { "id": "morphological-concordance", "name": "Morphological concordance", "description": "Record leaf construction, node position, stem habit and available reproductive characters together.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which photographed or preserved characters support Cannabis identification, and at which developmental stage were they observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "morphological-concordance-q01" }, { "text": "Which plausible look-alikes remain unexcluded, and what additional organ or expert examination would distinguish them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "morphological-concordance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lineage-and-development", "name": "Lineage and development", "description": "The plant's biological origin and observed developmental trajectory.", "rationale": "Accession labels, propagation origin and developmental stage affect how comparisons between Cannabis plants should be interpreted.", "layers": [ { "id": "accession-and-propagation", "name": "Accession and propagation", "description": "Traceable origin without assumed genetic uniformity.", "findings": [ { "id": "lineage-evidence", "name": "Lineage evidence", "description": "Separate documented source relationships from cultivar, strain and parentage claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the plant traceable to a seed lot, source cutting or tissue-culture accession?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lineage-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the cultivar or parentage claim beyond the supplier's label?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lineage-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "phenological-trajectory", "name": "Phenological trajectory", "description": "Dated transitions between vegetative, reproductive and declining states.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-growth", "name": "Stage and growth", "description": "Assess stage from visible organs and record growth using repeatable landmarks.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs establish the current stage, and when was the preceding stage last observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-growth-q01" }, { "text": "What changes in height, branching or senescence are documented alongside light and environmental history?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-growth-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sex-and-reproductive-state", "name": "Sex and reproductive state", "description": "Observed flower types, reproductive activity and formation of propagules.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish flower expression, pollen release, pollination evidence and seed formation rather than collapse them into one sex label.", "layers": [ { "id": "flower-expression", "name": "Flower expression", "description": "Reproductive characters recorded by organ, position and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-flower-types", "name": "Observed flower types", "description": "Retain evidence of staminate, pistillate or mixed expression, including the limits of inspection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flower types are visible, at which positions, and on what inspection date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-flower-types-q01" }, { "text": "Is the recorded sex expression directly observed, inferred from a label or still indeterminate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-flower-types-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pollen-and-propagules", "name": "Pollen and propagules", "description": "Evidence of reproductive activity relevant to containment and movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-status", "name": "Reproductive status", "description": "Track pollen release and fruit or seed observations without treating absence of visible evidence as proof of absence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes pollen release, pollen exposure, fruit formation or viable seed production?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-status-q01" }, { "text": "Does proposed movement or handling require assessment of pollen dispersal or viable propagules?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-tissue-chemistry", "name": "Condition and tissue chemistry", "description": "Plant health observations and chemical evidence at the scale actually examined.", "rationale": "Visible condition and chemical composition answer different questions, and both require organ-specific evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "organ-condition", "name": "Organ condition", "description": "Condition of leaves, stems, roots and reproductive tissues in environmental context.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-and-diagnostic-confidence", "name": "Damage and diagnostic confidence", "description": "Separate observed symptoms from suspected pests, pathogens or environmental causes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs show damage, how extensive is it, and how has it changed between dated inspections?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-and-diagnostic-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "What diagnostic evidence is needed before attributing the symptoms to a pest, pathogen or environmental cause?", "kind": "action", "id": "damage-and-diagnostic-confidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "chemical-observation", "name": "Chemical observation", "description": "Traceable composition measurements with explicit sampling and reporting boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "sample-bounded-profile", "name": "Sample-bounded profile", "description": "Link cannabinoid results to sampled tissue and distinguish measured analytes from calculated totals.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tissue, collection time, preparation, analytical method and mass basis produced each reported cannabinoid value?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sample-bounded-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Which compounds were measured separately, which totals were calculated, and what supports extrapolation beyond this sample?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sample-bounded-profile-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-material-boundaries", "name": "Handling and material boundaries", "description": "Decision prerequisites for acting on the plant and preserving identity when material is detached.", "rationale": "A Cannabis plant's identity does not itself settle permissible actions or establish the identity and condition of downstream material.", "layers": [ { "id": "contextual-action-eligibility", "name": "Contextual action eligibility", "description": "Connect a concrete proposed action to the evidence and external authority it requires.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-prerequisites", "name": "Action prerequisites", "description": "Record the intended action and unresolved prerequisites without embedding universal legal thresholds.", "questions": [ { "text": "For this place, date, custodian and proposed action, which current external rules or authorizations apply?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-prerequisites-q01" }, { "text": "If eligibility depends on a hemp or cannabinoid classification, does the available sampling and analysis satisfy the applicable rule?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "action-prerequisites-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "detachment-and-traceability", "name": "Detachment and traceability", "description": "Maintain provenance across sampling, cutting, harvesting and disposal events.", "findings": [ { "id": "derived-material-identity", "name": "Derived material identity", "description": "Create explicit links from the source plant to detached organs, propagules and material batches.", "questions": [ { "text": "What material was detached, from which plant and organ, when, and under which resulting sample or batch identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "derived-material-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the detached material require a specimen, propagule, harvested-material or processed-product model for its subsequent state?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "derived-material-identity-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Industrial hemp (low-THC fibre and dual-purpose cultivars)", "Oilseed / grain hemp", "Drug-type / high-THC flowering cultivars (marijuana/ganja)", "CBD-dominant chemotypes", "Cannabis sativa subsp. sativa (narrow-leaflet, often fibre/seed landraces)", "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (broad-leaflet drug landraces; rank disputed)", "Cannabis sativa subsp. ruderalis / feral weedy forms (rank disputed)", "Autoflowering and hybrid cultivars used in horticulture" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Cannabis sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] 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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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A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Nederwiet" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 91 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Cannabis sativa from another, and a Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 Cannabis sativa is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa, 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 Cannabis sativa 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 } } } }