DLAB Comprehensive Rule Application 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Study these Prelvak sentences: 'Doru vel.' (Man runs.) 'Fenu vel.' (Woman runs.) 'Doru talo.' (Man sings.) 'Fenu talo.' (Woman sings.) 'Doru mak.' (Man sleeps.) Which means 'The woman sleeps'?
- Fenu mak. (Correct answer)
- Mak fenu.
- Doru mak.
- Fenu vel.
Correct answer: Fenu mak.
'Fenu' = woman, 'mak' = sleeps; pattern confirms subject-verb order.
From the data: 'doru' = man, 'fenu' = woman, 'vel' = runs, 'talo' = sings, 'mak' = sleeps. The sentence structure is Subject + Verb. 'The woman sleeps' = fenu (woman) + mak (sleeps) = 'Fenu mak.' This is a pattern induction task — you must extract vocabulary and grammar from the examples.
Question 2: From the Telvari examples: 'Nak bren.' (Bird flies.) 'Nak palu.' (Bird swims.) 'Shor bren.' (Fish flies.) 'Shor palu.' (Fish swims.) 'Melu bren.' (Cat flies.) What does 'Melu palu.' mean?
- Cat swims. (Correct answer)
- Cat flies.
- Fish swims.
- Bird swims.
Correct answer: Cat swims.
'Melu' = cat, 'palu' = swims, so 'Melu palu.' = Cat swims.
Pattern analysis: 'nak' = bird, 'shor' = fish, 'melu' = cat (from 'Melu bren' paired with 'Cat flies'). 'bren' = flies, 'palu' = swims. Applying these: 'Melu palu.' = cat swims. The DLAB tests this inductive reasoning — extracting word meanings from a set of translation pairs.
Question 3: In invented language Velkish, all sentences follow Subject-Object-Verb order. Given: 'Talu shor dren.' = 'The woman eats fish.' What does 'Shor talu dren.' mean?
- The fish eats the woman. (Correct answer)
- The woman eats fish.
- The fish swims.
- The woman swims.
Correct answer: The fish eats the woman.
SOV order: Shor (fish) = subject, talu (woman) = object, dren (eats) = verb → 'Fish eats woman.'
Velkish uses SOV word order. In 'Talu shor dren': talu = subject (woman), shor = object (fish), dren = verb (eats) → 'Woman eats fish.' Reversing the subject and object: 'Shor talu dren' → shor = subject (fish), talu = object (woman), dren = eats → 'The fish eats the woman.' Word order determines grammatical role in this language.
Question 4: Observe: Delvori 'Mako vel' = 'The tree bends.' Delvori 'Mako vel-om' = 'The trees bend.' Delvori 'Prenu vel' = 'The fire bends.' What does 'Prenu vel-om' mean?
- The fires bend. (Correct answer)
- The fire bends.
- The trees bend.
- Fires sleep.
Correct answer: The fires bend.
'-om' marks plural; 'prenu' = fire, so 'prenu vel-om' = 'The fires bend.'
From the examples: '-om' is the plural verb marker (comparing 'vel' with 'vel-om'). 'Mako' = tree, 'prenu' = fire, 'vel' = bends/bend. 'Prenu vel-om' = fires (plural) + bend = 'The fires bend.' Plural is marked on the verb, not the noun, in Delvori.
Question 5: From these Norvik pairs: 'Brak-al talo.' = 'He sings loudly.' 'Brak-ul talo.' = 'He sang loudly.' 'Fenu-al vel.' = 'She runs now.' What does 'Fenu-ul vel.' mean?
- She ran. (Correct answer)
- She runs now.
- He sang.
- She will run.
Correct answer: She ran.
'-ul' is past tense (from brak-ul), 'fenu' = she, 'vel' = runs → 'She ran.'
Comparing 'brak-al' (present/now) with 'brak-ul' (past), the tense is encoded in the subject suffix: '-al' = present, '-ul' = past. 'Fenu-al vel' = 'She runs now' (present). 'Fenu-ul vel' applies the past marker '-ul' to 'fenu' → 'She ran.' This requires extracting the grammatical contrast from parallel examples.
Question 6: Invented language data: 'Ven bren shor.' = 'Two fish fly.' 'Tel bren shor.' = 'Three fish fly.' 'Ven mak doru.' = 'Two men sleep.' What does 'Tel mak doru.' mean?
- Three men sleep. (Correct answer)
- Two men sleep.
- Three fish sleep.
- Two fish sleep.
Correct answer: Three men sleep.
'Tel' = three, 'mak' = sleep, 'doru' = men → 'Three men sleep.'
From the examples: 'ven' = two, 'tel' = three (comparing first two sentences). 'bren' = fly, 'mak' = sleep. 'shor' = fish, 'doru' = men. 'Tel mak doru' = three (tel) + sleep (mak) + men (doru) = 'Three men sleep.' Number + verb + noun order is consistent across examples.
DLAB Comprehensive Rule Application 2
Study these Prelvak sentences: 'Doru vel.' (Man runs.) 'Fenu vel.' (Woman runs.) 'Doru talo.' (Man sings.) 'Fenu talo.' (Woman sings.) 'Doru mak.' (Man sleeps.) Which means 'The woman sleeps'?