Comprehensive Rule Application Flashcards
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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'?
Answer: Fenu mak.
'Fenu' = woman, 'mak' = sleeps; pattern confirms subject-verb order.
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?
Answer: Cat swims.
'Melu' = cat, 'palu' = swims, so 'Melu palu.' = Cat swims.
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?
Answer: The fish eats the woman.
SOV order: Shor (fish) = subject, talu (woman) = object, dren (eats) = verb → 'Fish eats woman.'
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?
Answer: The fires bend.
'-om' marks plural; 'prenu' = fire, so 'prenu vel-om' = 'The fires bend.'
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?
Answer: She ran.
'-ul' is past tense (from brak-ul), 'fenu' = she, 'vel' = runs → 'She ran.'
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?
Answer: Three men sleep.
'Tel' = three, 'mak' = sleep, 'doru' = men → 'Three men sleep.'