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                "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise hiragana, assess the identity and usability of its written forms, and choose appropriate reading, annotation, conversion or preservation actions.",
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                "scope_statement": "This model owns hiragana as a Japanese writing subsystem, including character identity, written sequences, contextual reading, orthographic roles and representation integrity; individual texts supply the contexts in which these are assessed.",
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                    "Identification of hiragana characters and sequences, including small kana and voiced or semi-voiced forms",
                    "Relationships between written hiragana, mora structure and context-dependent readings",
                    "Hiragana spelling conventions, grammatical uses and relationships to neighbouring scripts",
                    "Distinctions among contemporary, historical and nonstandard forms or usages",
                    "Integrity of hiragana across handwritten, printed and digitally encoded representations"
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                    "Japanese vocabulary, syntax and discourse beyond what is needed to interpret hiragana usage",
                    "Kanji identity, meanings and internal character structure",
                    "Katakana inventory and usage except where comparison or conversion involves hiragana",
                    "Japanese phonetics and speech performance beyond the reading distinctions represented by hiragana",
                    "Document authorship, copyright and access permissions",
                    "General font engineering, keyboard design and text storage infrastructure"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Determine script identity from the character or interpreted glyph rather than roundness alone: hiragana あ and katakana ア can represent corresponding readings while remaining different script characters.",
                    "Distinguish hiragana from kanji by its kana identity and contextual phonographic use; a cursive appearance alone does not establish that a handwritten form is hiragana.",
                    "Test small versus full-sized character identity: ゃ and や, or っ and つ, cannot be treated as interchangeable visual variants.",
                    "Separate script identity from encoded block membership: a combining voicing mark or shared punctuation may participate in hiragana text without independently identifying that text as hiragana.",
                    "Distinguish hiragana spelling from a phonetic transcription: particle uses of は, へ and を require contextual reading rather than a single invariant sound assignment."
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                        "why_it_matters": "Prevents a conclusion about one glyph from being applied automatically to an entire word, passage or writing system."
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                        "unit_or_values": "identified hiragana character; small or full-sized form; unmarked, dakuten or handakuten form; unresolved identity",
                        "why_it_matters": "Size and voicing distinctions can change reading and must survive recognition and transformation."
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                        "name": "Reading relationship",
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                        "unit_or_values": "written unit linked to one or more context-supported readings, with alternatives retained",
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                        "unit_or_values": "morae under a stated interpretation; unresolved when context is insufficient",
                        "why_it_matters": "Separates written character count from rhythmic units, including small-kana combinations, small っ and ん."
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                        "name": "Orthographic function",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "whole-word spelling; particle; okurigana; reading annotation; expressive spelling; other or unresolved",
                        "why_it_matters": "The function determines which reading and editing rules apply."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Convention alignment",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "conforms to named convention; intentional departure; suspected error; unresolved",
                        "why_it_matters": "Separates mistakes from historical spelling, specialist usage and deliberate stylistic choices."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Historical or variant relationship",
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                        "unit_or_values": "observed form linked to a documented contemporary, historical or variant identification",
                        "why_it_matters": "Allows recognition of older material without silently replacing its distinctions with contemporary spelling."
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                        "unit_or_values": "verified against source; equivalent encoding variation; ambiguous glyph; suspected recognition error; lossy transformation",
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                    "Identify hiragana spans and flag uncertain characters, small-kana distinctions or voicing marks for review",
                    "Segment hiragana into reading units and propose context-supported readings",
                    "Check spelling against an explicitly selected contemporary or historical convention",
                    "Convert eligible spans to katakana or romanisation while retaining the original and recording ambiguities",
                    "Normalise equivalent digital representations after checking which distinctions the task must preserve",
                    "Annotate grammatical roles, reading relationships and uncertain historical forms without rewriting the source"
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                        "id": "hiragana-character-identity",
                        "name": "Hiragana character identity",
                        "description": "Establishes which hiragana characters are present and which visible marks participate in their identity.",
                        "rationale": "An agent must distinguish character identity from glyph appearance before reading or editing hiragana.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "script-membership",
                                "name": "Script membership",
                                "description": "Identifies hiragana within mixed Japanese text and ambiguous visual material.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "hiragana-identification-basis",
                                        "name": "Hiragana identification basis",
                                        "description": "Record the evidence for identifying a character or span as hiragana, preserving alternatives when the source is unclear.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which characters are identifiable as hiragana, and which marks are shared with other Japanese scripts?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "hiragana-identification-basis-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does identification come from encoded text, a visible glyph or an interpretation of handwriting?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
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                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "size-and-voicing-distinctions",
                                "name": "Size and voicing distinctions",
                                "description": "Tracks small kana and voicing distinctions that affect interpretation.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "contrastive-kana-features",
                                        "name": "Contrastive kana features",
                                        "description": "Record whether size and dakuten or handakuten belong to the intended character rather than resulting from rendering or recognition noise.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the observed kana small or full-sized, and is that distinction supported by the source?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "contrastive-kana-features-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is a voicing mark present, absent or ambiguous, and would changing it alter the intended reading?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
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                    {
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                        "name": "Hiragana reading units",
                        "description": "Relates hiragana sequences to mora structure and context-sensitive readings.",
                        "rationale": "Character-by-character substitution cannot reliably describe how hiragana sequences are read.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "mora-segmentation",
                                "name": "Mora segmentation",
                                "description": "Distinguishes character boundaries from the units relevant to reading and mora counting.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "sequence-to-mora-analysis",
                                        "name": "Sequence-to-mora analysis",
                                        "description": "Record how combinations such as きゃ, small っ and ん contribute to the sequence's interpreted mora structure.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which characters form a combined reading unit, and which contribute a separate mora?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "sequence-to-mora-analysis-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How many morae does the sequence have under the selected reading, and where is the analysis uncertain?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "sequence-to-mora-analysis-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "contextual-reading",
                                "name": "Contextual reading",
                                "description": "Captures readings that depend on grammatical or lexical context.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "spelling-reading-correspondence",
                                        "name": "Spelling-reading correspondence",
                                        "description": "Record the contextual interpretation of particle spellings and vowel sequences rather than treating spelling as a complete phonetic transcription.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Are は, へ or を functioning as particles here, and what reading does that support?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "spelling-reading-correspondence-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What lexical or grammatical evidence supports interpreting a vowel sequence as a long vowel or as separate vowels?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "spelling-reading-correspondence-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "hiragana-orthographic-role",
                        "name": "Hiragana orthographic role",
                        "description": "Explains what hiragana is doing within the surrounding Japanese writing.",
                        "rationale": "Appropriate interpretation and editing depend on whether hiragana spells a word, marks grammar or annotates another expression.",
                        "layers": [
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                                "id": "word-and-grammar-functions",
                                "name": "Word and grammar functions",
                                "description": "Identifies whole-word spelling, particles and kana attached to kanji.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "hiragana-functional-span",
                                        "name": "Hiragana functional span",
                                        "description": "Record the role and extent of each relevant hiragana span, including its attachment to neighbouring kanji when used as okurigana.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does this span spell an entire word, function as a particle or supply okurigana?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "hiragana-functional-span-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which surrounding word or kanji does the span belong to, and where does that relationship end?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "hiragana-functional-span-q02"
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                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "reading-annotation-and-script-choice",
                                "name": "Reading annotation and script choice",
                                "description": "Distinguishes reading annotations from body text and records evidence for deliberate hiragana spelling.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "annotation-target-and-writing-choice",
                                        "name": "Annotation target and writing choice",
                                        "description": "Record whether hiragana annotates another expression or is the expression's chosen spelling, without inferring authorial intent from script alone.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is this hiragana a reading annotation, and which exact base-text span does it annotate?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "annotation-target-and-writing-choice-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence, if any, establishes that hiragana was deliberately selected in place of a kanji or katakana spelling?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "annotation-target-and-writing-choice-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "hiragana-conventions-and-history",
                        "name": "Hiragana conventions and history",
                        "description": "Assesses spelling and character forms against the conventions relevant to their context.",
                        "rationale": "An agent must distinguish errors from historical, specialist and intentional uses before proposing correction.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "applicable-spelling-convention",
                                "name": "Applicable spelling convention",
                                "description": "Names the orthographic reference used to evaluate the text.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "convention-relative-assessment",
                                        "name": "Convention-relative assessment",
                                        "description": "Record the applicable spelling convention and classify departures only when there is enough contextual evidence.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which documented convention governs this text, including relevant treatment of じ versus ぢ and ず versus づ?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "convention-relative-assessment-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does a departure warrant correction, preservation as intentional usage or an unresolved annotation?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "convention-relative-assessment-q02"
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                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "historical-and-variant-forms",
                                "name": "Historical and variant forms",
                                "description": "Handles older spellings and forms without assuming contemporary equivalence.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "historical-form-interpretation",
                                        "name": "Historical form interpretation",
                                        "description": "Record source-supported identification of forms such as ゐ and ゑ, and assess how hentaigana or other historical variants relate to this model's scope.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which dated source or specialist reference supports the identification and interpretation of this historical form?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "historical-form-interpretation-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Would a contemporary transcription discard a spelling or form distinction that the task requires preserving?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "historical-form-interpretation-q02"
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                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
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                    },
                    {
                        "id": "hiragana-representation-and-transformation",
                        "name": "Hiragana representation and transformation",
                        "description": "Assesses digital and visual fidelity and constrains transformations of hiragana text.",
                        "rationale": "Normalisation, OCR and script conversion can preserve appearance while changing identity, reading or recoverability.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "encoding-and-source-fidelity",
                                "name": "Encoding and source fidelity",
                                "description": "Checks correspondence among source glyphs, recognised characters and encoded sequences.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kana-representation-equivalence",
                                        "name": "Kana representation equivalence",
                                        "description": "Record whether differences reflect equivalent encodings, distinct characters or errors, especially around combining voicing marks and small kana.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Do differing encodings represent the same intended kana, or do they preserve a meaningful character distinction?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "kana-representation-equivalence-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which source comparison verifies that OCR or transcription retained small kana and voicing marks correctly?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "kana-representation-equivalence-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "controlled-kana-conversion",
                                "name": "Controlled kana conversion",
                                "description": "Defines task-appropriate normalisation, katakana conversion and romanisation.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "transformation-contract",
                                        "name": "Transformation contract",
                                        "description": "Record the conversion's purpose, convention, contextual dependencies and recoverability before changing hiragana.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Should the transformation preserve written spelling or represent contextual reading, and which conversion convention applies?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "transformation-contract-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which distinctions or ambiguities would be lost, and what original text or annotation must accompany the result?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "transformation-contract-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
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                "Does the registry intend hiragana to include hentaigana and other historical forms directly, or should this model link to separately owned historical-script models?",
                "Which authoritative orthographic references and editions should govern contemporary spelling, historical spelling and okurigana assessment?",
                "Which specialist small-kana usages, dialect spellings and expressive spellings require explicit coverage rather than an unresolved-use category?",
                "Which shared marks, including iteration and prolonged-sound marks where encountered, should this model interpret directly and which should belong to a neighbouring Japanese writing model?",
                "Which romanisation and modernisation conventions should be supported, and what evidence is required before resolving an ambiguous reading during conversion?"
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            "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.",
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            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a hiragana, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise hiragana, assess the identity and usability of its written forms, and choose appropriate reading, annotation, conversion or preservation actions.",
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                "read and interpreted",
                "observed and measured"
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            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: okurigana.",
                "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 106 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
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                "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 hiragana, 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": [
                {
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                    "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.",
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            "standing": "Described in 106 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.",
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                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one hiragana from another, and a hiragana 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": [
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                                "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 hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
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                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a hiragana 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana 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 hiragana between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a hiragana 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana 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 hiragana contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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 hiragana is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hiragana, 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 hiragana, 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 hiragana 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
            }
        }
    }
}