REFRAME GOVERNANCE BOOK
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GOVERNANCE CHAPTER · 76

Reference · Retained for architectural history and context; it is not, by itself, the current operational authority.

Beat Movement and the Uncertainty Overlay

Chapter summary: Questions and movements are separate semantic records. A question is a source-grounded uncertainty with a span and lifecycle. A movement is a source-grounded change, whether settled or unresolved. The projection keeps both lanes, plus read coverage; neither is renamed or counted as the other.

Purpose

Chapter 28 defines the open-question span that this projection previously called a beat. Pyramus and Thisbe exposed the need to keep that semantic object separate from a grounded dramatic movement: a meeting, reversal, revelation, decision, or consequence can be settled while still being an important movement. It must remain visible without being promoted to a question.

Governing rules

  1. Questions and movements are distinct. A question is the span over which the reading holds one story question open. A movement is an action, encounter, escalation, reversal, revelation, decision, consequence, or other source-grounded change. A movement is not automatically a question.

  2. Questions are not a movement gate. A missing question never authorizes deleting a grounded movement; a movement never authorizes inventing a question without source evidence.

  3. Question lifecycle remains explicit. A question records questionMovement: raised, carried, transformed, answered-by-the-text, deferred, or still-open-at-end. A movement records its own source evidence. “Resolved” is a question state, never a synonym for movement.

  4. Every semantic field keeps its evidence. Each movement and each question movement carry source anchors, provenance, the reading/lens identity, and the operation version. Absence of an anchor is preserved as unknown; no span is borrowed merely to make an illustration or score mark look complete.

  5. The projection has separate lanes. Questions shows question spans and lifecycle; Movements shows grounded changes, including settled changes with no question; Read coverage shows what was read. Participants, including illustrations, attach to a grounded movement and may reference a related question.

  6. UncertaintyScoreKit projects, it does not redefine. Its lanes may be empty independently: no questions does not mean no movements, and movements do not count as questions.

  7. Storify must emit both contracts. The semantic reading may return structural ordering/movement and optional uncertainties. Persistence, reconstruction, carry-forward, and projections must preserve both, including legacy and anchored question representations.

  8. Illustration eligibility is semantic, not numeric. A movement is illustratable when it has grounded source evidence. A related question enriches the prompt when present; image generation must not require a question unless a scenario explicitly targets questions.

  9. Scenario acceptance names the intended shape. A structural illustration scenario requires a persisted movement with source evidence. A question-led scenario additionally requires a question overlay and its lifecycle state. Neither scenario may pass from an image receipt alone.

Naming

Use Questions for source-grounded question spans. Use Movements for source-grounded changes. Use question movement for the question lifecycle (raised, carried, transformed, answered-by-the-text, deferred, or still-open-at-end). Do not use “beat” as a label for either lane; retain old identifiers only as compatibility aliases during migration.

Acceptance

  • A resolved myth still produces grounded movements, even when Questions is empty.
  • A question appears only when its source-grounded question evidence exists.
  • Store readback contains both movement and question evidence; reconstruction preserves structured and legacy questions.
  • UncertaintyScoreKit, Score, and image projection agree on movement identity and source provenance.
  • The Teatro myth scenario cannot reach image generation without a grounded movement; it requires a question only when the scenario declares uncertainty as its target.

Governing sentence

Reframe shall project Questions and Movements as separate, source-grounded lanes, with Read coverage as a third authority. They may be related, but they are never substituted for one another.