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    "model": {
        "rank": 6746,
        "code": "thing-q34073",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.uto-aztecan",
        "name": "Uto-Aztecan",
        "purpose": "Let an agent explain the Uto-Aztecan family, relay classification, geography, history and revitalisation from linguistic sources with debates attributed, describe the named branches and languages, and distinguish Uto-Aztecan from Mayan, Oto-Manguean and Athabaskan families and from ethnic or political groupings.",
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        "category": "Information and virtual systems",
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        "version": "",
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        "tier": 2,
        "score": 59,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wikidata",
            "aliases": [
                "Acaxee",
                "Nahuan",
                "Cahitan",
                "Northern Uto-Aztecan",
                "Southern Uto-Aztecan",
                "Taracahitic",
                "Pochutla Nahuatl",
                "Cazcan",
                "Corachol",
                "Tubar",
                "Opata-Eudeve",
                "Piman",
                "Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl",
                "Pochutec",
                "Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl",
                "Central Puebla Nahuatl"
            ],
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            "merged": 16,
            "knownIn": 59,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q34073",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34073",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
        "research": {
            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T22:21:40Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 4,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
            "metaModel": {
                "id": "THING-Q34073",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.uto-aztecan",
                "name": "Uto-Aztecan",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.4",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "INF.MED"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
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            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.uto-aztecan",
                "name": "Uto-Aztecan",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain the Uto-Aztecan family, relay classification, geography, history and revitalisation from linguistic sources with debates attributed, describe the named branches and languages, and distinguish Uto-Aztecan from Mayan, Oto-Manguean and Athabaskan families and from ethnic or political groupings.",
                "definition": "A family of about 30 or more indigenous languages of western North America and Mesoamerica, spoken from Oregon and Idaho to El Salvador, conventionally divided into Northern Uto-Aztecan, including Numic languages such as Shoshone and Comanche and Hopi, and Southern Uto-Aztecan, including Taracahitic and Cahitan languages such as Yaqui and Mayo, Tepiman languages such as O odham, and Nahuan languages such as Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs and still spoken by more than 1.5 million people; the Acaxee language is extinct. The internal division into northern and southern branches is debated, and many languages are endangered.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Classifying related indigenous languages.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain classification and branches",
                    "relay geography and history",
                    "describe named branches",
                    "relay revitalisation"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Wide geographic range",
                    "Nahuatl as largest language",
                    "Debated subgrouping",
                    "Many endangered languages"
                ],
                "appearance": "Not a physical object; shown on language maps.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Indigenous language family of western North America and Mexico",
                    "Acaxee, Nahuan, Cahitan, Northern Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Taracahitic",
                    "Mayan languages are a separate family; Oto-Manguean is another Mexican family; Athabaskan includes Navajo; ethnic groups are not languages"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "Nahuatl speakers",
                        "typical_range": "more than 1.5 million",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": "Mexican census, check current"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "range",
                        "typical_range": "Oregon to El Salvador",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "proposed homeland debates",
                        "typical_range": "Great Basin or Mesoamerica",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": "attributed"
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "Numic languages",
                    "Hopi",
                    "Tepiman languages",
                    "Taracahitic and Cahitan languages",
                    "Nahuan languages"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "language family",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "Nahuatl",
                        "why": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "Comanche language",
                        "why": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is contrasted with",
                        "target": "Mayan languages",
                        "why": ""
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "ISO 639 language codes",
                    "Mexican General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples of 2003",
                    "Native American Languages Act of 1990"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Presenting debated subgroups as settled",
                    "Stale speaker numbers",
                    "Treating extinct and living languages alike"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What Uto-Aztecan is.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Definition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is the Uto-Aztecan family, and how does it differ from Mayan, Oto-Manguean and Athabaskan families?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about a specific language, classification or revitalisation?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "branches",
                                "name": "Branches",
                                "description": "Named branches.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "branches-finding",
                                        "name": "Branches",
                                        "description": "Branches.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are Northern and Southern Uto-Aztecan, Nahuan, Cahitan and Taracahitic groups, and what was Acaxee?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific branch?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "linguistics",
                        "name": "Linguistics",
                        "description": "Classification.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "subgrouping",
                                "name": "Subgrouping",
                                "description": "Subgrouping debates.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "subgrouping-finding",
                                        "name": "Subgrouping",
                                        "description": "Subgrouping.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do linguists argue about the north-south division, with positions attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "homeland",
                                "name": "Homeland",
                                "description": "Homeland debate.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "homeland-finding",
                                        "name": "Homeland",
                                        "description": "Homeland.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What hypotheses exist about the Uto-Aztecan homeland and maize spread?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "languages",
                        "name": "Languages",
                        "description": "Languages today.",
                        "rationale": "Regulation.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "nahuatl",
                                "name": "Nahuatl",
                                "description": "Nahuatl.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "nahuatl-finding",
                                        "name": "Nahuatl",
                                        "description": "Nahuatl.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is Nahuatl spoken and taught today?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Nahuatl?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "revitalisation",
                                "name": "Revitalisation",
                                "description": "Revitalisation.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "revitalisation-finding",
                                        "name": "Revitalisation",
                                        "description": "Revitalisation.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What revitalisation work exists for Hopi, Comanche and other languages?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the information current?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "History.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "aztec",
                                "name": "Aztec",
                                "description": "Classical Nahuatl.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "aztec-finding",
                                        "name": "Aztec",
                                        "description": "Aztec.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How was Classical Nahuatl written and documented after the Spanish conquest?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Classical Nahuatl?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "codetalkers",
                                "name": "Code talkers",
                                "description": "Comanche code talkers.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "codetalkers-finding",
                                        "name": "Code talkers",
                                        "description": "Code talkers.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did Comanche code talkers serve in the Second World War?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits code talker?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should the Northern and Southern branches be treated as valid subgroups or areal groupings?",
                "How should Glottolog and Ethnologue data be linked?",
                "Should Acaxee be a separate entry?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "work, medium or creative form",
            "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 Uto-Aztecan, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain the Uto-Aztecan family, relay classification, geography, history and revitalisation from linguistic sources with debates attributed, describe the named branches and languages, and distinguish Uto-Aztecan from Mayan, Oto-Manguean and Athabaskan families and from ethnic or political groupings.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "information",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "read and interpreted",
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Acaxee, Nahuan, Cahitan, Northern Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Taracahitic, Pochutla Nahuatl, Cazcan, Corachol, Tubar, Opata-Eudeve, Piman.",
                "16 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 59 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 Uto-Aztecan, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "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": [
                "read it and act on what it says",
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "Acaxee",
                        "Nahuan",
                        "Cahitan",
                        "Northern Uto-Aztecan",
                        "Southern Uto-Aztecan",
                        "Taracahitic",
                        "Pochutla Nahuatl",
                        "Cazcan",
                        "Corachol",
                        "Tubar",
                        "Opata-Eudeve",
                        "Piman"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 59 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 16 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 Uto-Aztecan from another, and a Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "content-and-access",
                        "name": "Content, encoding and access",
                        "description": "What a Uto-Aztecan says, how it is encoded and who may read it.",
                        "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "content-and-encoding",
                                "name": "Content and encoding",
                                "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "content-and-format",
                                        "name": "Content, format and language",
                                        "description": "What a Uto-Aztecan contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Uto-Aztecan, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Uto-Aztecan, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Uto-Aztecan is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access-and-rights",
                                "name": "Access, rights and retention",
                                "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and retention",
                                        "description": "The permissions attached to a Uto-Aztecan and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Uto-Aztecan, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Uto-Aztecan, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Uto-Aztecan is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "work-and-manifestation",
                        "name": "Work, version and copy",
                        "description": "Which level of Uto-Aztecan a statement is about.",
                        "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "levels",
                                "name": "Levels of the thing",
                                "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "level-rules",
                                        "name": "What belongs at each level",
                                        "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "level-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "For Uto-Aztecan, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "level-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "versions",
                                "name": "Versions, editions and variants",
                                "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "version-record",
                                        "name": "Versions and canonicity",
                                        "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "version-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which versions or editions of Uto-Aztecan exist, and how do they differ substantively?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "version-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "authorship-and-rights",
                        "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use",
                        "description": "Who made Uto-Aztecan and what may be done with it.",
                        "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "authorship",
                                "name": "Authorship and contribution",
                                "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "contribution-record",
                                        "name": "Contributors and roles",
                                        "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "contribution-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Who authored or contributed to Uto-Aztecan, in what roles, and how is that attested?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "contribution-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "rights",
                                "name": "Rights and permissions",
                                "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "rights-record",
                                        "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts",
                                        "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "rights-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What rights subsist in Uto-Aztecan, in which jurisdictions, and until when?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "rights-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan 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 Uto-Aztecan is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan, 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 Uto-Aztecan is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}