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or otherwise provision offspring.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the reproductive system of an individual organism: its reproductive structures, their integration, reproductive processes, developmental and regulatory state, and system-specific constraints on assessment or intervention, with anatomy and function interpreted according to taxon.", "in_scope": [ "Reproductive structures present, absent, altered or incompletely characterised, and their functional connections", "Production, maturation, storage, transport and release of reproductive cells or propagules where applicable", "System contributions to fertilisation and offspring development where applicable", "Reproductive development, cycles, seasonal activity and regulatory dependencies", "Evidence about reproductive function, impairment and effects of interventions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-organism identity, general health and life history", "Detailed models of individual organs, cells, gametes or genetic sequences", "A partner's reproductive system or a population's reproductive dynamics", "An embryo or offspring as a separately developing entity", "Sexual behaviour, gender identity, relationships and reproductive preferences as independent subjects", "Clinical protocols, treatment prescribing and standalone disease models" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The subject is an integrated reproductive apparatus within an organism, rather than one reproductive organ or an isolated gamete.", "Its structures have a documented reproductive role for the relevant taxon; location near reproductive organs alone does not establish membership.", "Shared urinary or endocrine structures are included only through their reproductive roles and interfaces.", "System identity persists through immaturity, inactivity, infertility or structural loss; current reproductive success is not a membership test.", "Classification follows observed organisation and taxon-specific function rather than assumptions based on gender, 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removed, altered, not assessed or uncertain, per component", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes documented anatomy from missing information and acquired change." }, { "name": "Developmental reproductive stage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Taxon-specific stage with observation date and supporting criteria", "why_it_matters": "Makes functional expectations appropriate to the organism's development." }, { "name": "Reproductive activity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Active, inactive, transitional, suppressed, not applicable or unknown, with the process specified", "why_it_matters": "Separates present activity from enduring structural capability." }, { "name": "Cycle or seasonal timing", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Named phase, dated events and elapsed time in hours or days where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Allows observations to be interpreted within a changing reproductive state." }, { "name": "Reproductive output", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Specified cell or propagule count, concentration or output per interval, with method and units", "why_it_matters": "Records measured output without treating it as proof of successful reproduction." }, { "name": "Functional passage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Patent, obstructed, interrupted, uncertain or not applicable, for a named route", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes production of reproductive material from its ability to reach the required destination." }, { "name": "Demonstrated reproductive function", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed, impaired, unassessed or unresolved for a named function, context and time", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a single test or historical outcome from becoming an unsupported global fertility label." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify applicable reproductive components and map their connections using taxon-specific evidence.", "Track reproductive development, activity and cycles across dated observations.", "Locate documented constraints in production, transport, fertilisation or developmental support.", "Compare observations with an applicable reference context while preserving uncertainty.", "Record reproductive interventions and monitor their intended and observed effects.", "Identify information, expertise and authorization needed before a proposed reproductive assessment or intervention." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "reproductive-organisation", "name": "Reproductive organisation", "description": "Establishes which reproductive system is being represented and how its components form a functional whole.", "rationale": "A reproductive system cannot be recognised reliably through a universal organ list or current fertility alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxon-and-mode", "name": "Taxon and reproductive mode", "description": "Selects the biological context that makes structural and functional descriptions meaningful.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-reproductive-organisation", "name": "Applicable reproductive organisation", "description": "Record the organism, supported reproductive mode and evidence used to identify its reproductive apparatus.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism and taxon does this system belong to, and which reproductive modes are established for this individual?", "kind": "definition", "id": "applicable-reproductive-organisation-q01" }, { "text": "What observations or references support this identification, and which details remain inferred from taxon alone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-reproductive-organisation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "components-and-interfaces", "name": "Components and interfaces", "description": "Describes reproductive structures, their connections and boundaries with other systems.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-component-map", "name": "Reproductive component map", "description": "Record components and pathways, including shared structures, structural variation and acquired alterations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reproductive structures and connections are observed, absent, altered or not yet assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-component-map-q01" }, { "text": "Which structures also serve urinary, endocrine or other functions, and which of their roles belong in this model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reproductive-component-map-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-material-and-pathways", "name": "Reproductive material and pathways", "description": "Represents how reproductive cells or propagules are produced and reach the sites where they act.", "rationale": "Production, maturation and delivery are distinct functions with different evidence and possible constraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "production-and-maturation", "name": "Production and maturation", "description": "Captures the origin, development and measurable properties of reproductive material.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-output-evidence", "name": "Reproductive output evidence", "description": "Record applicable production and maturation processes, separating direct measurements from inferred capacity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which structures produce or mature gametes or propagules, and which processes are applicable to this reproductive mode?", "kind": "definition", "id": "reproductive-output-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What output or maturation properties were measured, by which method, at what time and in what units?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-output-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "storage-transport-and-release", "name": "Storage, transport and release", "description": "Captures routes and events that move reproductive material within or beyond the system.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-route-continuity", "name": "Reproductive route continuity", "description": "Record storage sites, transport routes, release mechanisms and evidence of continuity or interruption.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is reproductive material stored, transported or released, and which routes are required for the applicable reproductive process?", "kind": "definition", "id": "reproductive-route-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes passage, release or interruption along each relevant route?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-route-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-regulation", "name": "Development and regulation", "description": "Places reproductive observations within developmental, cyclic and environmental context.", "rationale": "The same anatomy or measurement can have different meanings at different reproductive stages.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-transitions", "name": "Developmental transitions", "description": "Tracks establishment, maturation and later changes of reproductive organisation and activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-stage-evidence", "name": "Reproductive stage 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or activity pattern applies, and what dated observations establish it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "timed-reproductive-state-q01" }, { "text": "Which hormonal, neural or environmental inputs are documented as relevant, and which belong to linked regulatory-system models?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "timed-reproductive-state-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "functional-capacity-and-condition", "name": "Functional capacity and condition", "description": "Separates demonstrated reproductive functions from impairments, untested capacities and outcomes with multiple causes.", "rationale": "Anatomy, individual measurements and reproductive history provide different kinds of evidence and cannot substitute for one another.", "layers": [ { "id": "fertilisation-and-developmental-support", "name": "Fertilisation and developmental support", "description": "Represents the system's applicable contributions to fertilisation and support of developing offspring.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-reproductive-functions", "name": "Supported reproductive functions", "description": "Record which reproductive functions have been demonstrated and the conditions under which they occurred.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which contributions to fertilisation or offspring development are applicable and have actually been observed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-reproductive-functions-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of an observed reproductive outcome depend on a partner, external conditions or the developing offspring rather than this system alone?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-reproductive-functions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "impairment-and-evidence-limits", "name": "Impairment and evidence limits", "description": "Locates system-specific problems while distinguishing symptoms, measurements and established interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "localised-functional-constraint", "name": "Localised functional constraint", "description": "Record the affected reproductive component or process, supporting evidence and limits of the functional conclusion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reproductive structure or process is affected, and what observations support the reported impairment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "localised-functional-constraint-q01" }, { "text": "What remains unknown about severity, persistence, reversibility or effects on other reproductive functions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "localised-functional-constraint-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-assessment-and-intervention", "name": "Reproductive assessment and intervention", "description": "Connects reproductive questions and intended changes to evidence, authority and observed effects.", "rationale": "Assessments and interventions can affect different reproductive functions, and biological capability does not establish permission to act.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment-requirements", "name": "Assessment requirements", "description": "Records what an assessment is intended to establish and what is required to interpret it.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-assessment-fit", "name": "Reproductive assessment fit", "description": "Link a proposed examination, sample or measurement to a specific unresolved reproductive question.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which unresolved reproductive function or structural condition would this assessment clarify?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-assessment-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What timing, sampling context, expertise and authorization are required for this assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-assessment-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-effects-and-authority", "name": "Intervention effects and authority", "description": "Tracks intended changes to reproductive function, permission to act and subsequent evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-intervention-record", "name": "Reproductive intervention record", "description": "Record interventions affecting 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a reproductive system, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an organism's reproductive system, assess its documented organisation and functional state, and identify supported actions without inferring fertility or permission from anatomy alone.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: milt, human reproductive system, Farj, human male reproductive system, female human reproductive system, hairless female human genitalia, shaved female human genitalia, unshaved female human genitalia, unshaved male human genitalia, sexual system, male horse reproductive system, Insect reproductive system.", "17 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 108 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 reproductive system, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "milt", "human reproductive system", "Farj", "human male reproductive system", "female human reproductive system", "hairless female human genitalia", "shaved female human genitalia", "unshaved female human genitalia", "unshaved male human genitalia", "sexual system", "male horse reproductive system", "Insect reproductive system" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 108 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 17 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 reproductive system from another, and a reproductive system 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system 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 reproductive system 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system 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 reproductive system from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a reproductive system, 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a reproductive system is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a reproductive system, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a reproductive system, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a reproductive system is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a reproductive system is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a reproductive system, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a reproductive system, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a reproductive system is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a reproductive system is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a reproductive system, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a reproductive system, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a reproductive system is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a reproductive system is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a reproductive system is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a reproductive system, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a reproductive system, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a reproductive system is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a reproductive system is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a reproductive system, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a reproductive system, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a reproductive system 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 reproductive system passes through and 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a reproductive system 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 reproductive system, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a reproductive system 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What reproductive system is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does reproductive system perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise reproductive system, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How reproductive system is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does reproductive system have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does reproductive system need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about reproductive system is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about reproductive system hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark 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"questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a reproductive system, 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system 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 reproductive system is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a reproductive system, 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 reproductive system, 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 reproductive system is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }