Part 9: Exercises

Answers at the end, including the keys deferred from Parts 2, 3, 4, and 6. Where judgment is asked, check your reasoning, not just your answer.

Part A: Read the quantity

Say the value at reading pace.

1. wi phoi ta
2. ta shao wi
3. ta lau wi phoi wi
4. wi lau ta shao ta
5. ta rei ta phoi

Part B: Compose the number

Largest unit first, no repeated units, remainder under three.

1. 13
2. 20
3. 26
4. 31
5. 57

Part C: Choose the nature

Classifier, or a defended bare form.

1. Five stars, counted by a child at night.
2. Two years of the journal.
3. Four bowls on the trader's table.
4. Three snakes seen at the well over the years.
5. One blossom on the first tree of spring.

Part D: Exact or about

Decide, then say it.

1. The days until sulae returns (she said "after the market").
2. The eggs the recipe requires (it requires five).
3. The people at the village meeting (you scanned the circle once).
4. The stars above the walk home.
5. The soup, relative to the guests.

Part E: Translate into Phi

1. The third story.
2. The first guest received a bowl.
3. How many trees are in the garden?
4. Six and three gather; nine becomes.
5. Twelve eggs portion among four people; three eggs become.

Part F: Repair or defend

Each form is either broken, or grammatical-but-saying-something-else, or fine. Judge it.

1. *ta shao ta shao philo
2. shao lipha powea: offered as the count for a recipe needing three.
3. wi themo lopia
4. rei silero
5. *ta shao ta phoi noru

Answer key

Part A. 1: 19. 2: 5. 3: 47 (27 + 18 + 2). 4: 58 (54 + 3 + 1). 5: 90 (81 + 9).

Part B. 6: ta phoi ta shao ta (9+3+1). 7: wi phoi wi (18+2). 8: wi phoi wi shao wi (18+6+2). 9: ta lau ta shao ta (27+3+1). 10: wi lau ta shao (54+3).

Part B, deferred from Part 2. 11: ta phoi wi. 17: ta phoi wi shao wi. 21: wi phoi ta shao. 25: wi phoi wi shao ta. 28: ta lau ta. 33: ta lau wi shao. 45: ta lau wi phoi. 60: wi lau wi shao.

Part C. 11: ta shao wi lipha silero? No, and the miss is instructive: stars are not living beings; a child counting five stars says ta shao wi themo silero only if the stars read as objects, and most speakers decline to classify the sky at all: ta shao wi silero. 12: wi nophe torua: time takes nophe. 13: ta shao ta themo noru. 14: ta shao lipha suliwa if counted as living visitors; ta shao nophe if what you are really counting is sightings: events. Both defensible; know which you meant. 15: ta lipha phiralea: living part of a living being.

Part C, deferred from Part 3. 1: ta shao ta lipha shalu: alive and swimming. 2: ta shao ta themo shalu: the nature-now rule at its starkest; on the table they are goods. If that classifier feels cold, notice the rule made you feel the change of state; that is the system working. 3: wi nophe melira: sung songs are events. 4: wi lipha thinoe: life in waiting, like the egg. 5: wi shao themo wolea: detached and destined for craft. 6: ta nophe whemura. 7: ta shao himo phemi. 8: wi lipha shonui: living flesh of a living listener.

Part D. 16: about: shao philo, some days; her "after the market" was not a number and yours should not pretend to be. 17: exact: ta shao wi lipha powea; the recipe is owed its five. 18: about: phoi himo miona or wi phoi himo miona as your scan suggested; one glance earns an estimate, not a census. 19: rei silero, and no digit (Part 8, error 7). 20: henoi sulopa nai. Or its honest negation; either way the only quantity that matters.

Part E. 21: nu ta shao nophi. 22: nu ta himo phemi ta themo noru to howela. 23: wia lipha shiro mua thepalu nai. 24: wi shao ta shao sholei. ta phoi kelai. 25: ta phoi ta shao lipha powea ta shao ta himo miona phanoi. ta shao lipha powea kelai.

Part E, deferred from Part 4. Fifth scene: nu ta shao wi nophi: scenes of a told story are stories. Sixth day: nu wi shao philo. Second trader: nu wi piru (add himo for the formal register: nu wi himo piru). Eighth egg: nu wi shao wi powea. First storm of the year: nu ta nophe kurisha: the classifier earns its place here, marking the storm as this year's first event.

Part E, deferred from Part 6. 1: ta shao ta ta shao sholei. wi shao ta kelai.: the operand boundary rides on the pause, exactly as Part 6 warned. 2: wi shao wi wi leiro. wi shao kelai. 3: ta shao ta shao welura. ta phoi kelai. And yes, the operands of 3 × 3 wear the shape Part 8 forbids as a single number; as two numerals in sequence before an operation verb, the reading is exactly two threes. Context is the tribunal. 4: wi phoi wi phanoi. ta phoi kelai. 5: wi shao themo noru wi themo noru sholei. wi shao wi themo noru kelai. 6: ta phoi himo phemi ta shao himo phemila phanoi. ta shao himo phemi kelai.: three guests to each host, and everyone gets soup.

Part F. 26: broken: a remainder of three has formed a group; the sixth day is nu wi shao philo, the number six is wi shao. 27: grammatical but about: the recipe is owed ta shao. 28: grammatical and misfiled; children are people: wi himo lopia, or bare wi lopia. 29: fine: countless stars, the idiom at rest. 30: broken: units ascend; twelve is ta phoi ta shao, largest first.