---
title: "Deepening"
description: "depth asked for one observation, with the reason it stopped"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/deepening
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Deepening

depth asked for one observation, with the reason it stopped

[figure: Deepening is a work at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | work |
| scope | follows |
| key | the observation |
| store | postgres |
| family | record |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `observation` | `id` | yes |  |
| `depth_asked` | `one of fetch \| embed \| both` | yes |  |
| `asked_by` | `id` | yes | a definition, a match or a person |
| `why_stopped` | `text` | no |  |



## Routes that use it
- [`/v1/act/deepen`](/reference/act/deepen) returns it