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>That brings up an interesting point: While you're correct that {ma}
>was probably intended here, would {mo} be a valid question anyway,
>where it is asking not for a whole selbri, but for part of a tanru?
>In other words, could I ask "mo zdani do" for "what kind of house
>do you live in" or "ta blanu mo" for "what is that blue thing"?
>
>

I think you're right; and if this is not ungrammatical, it would give an
elegant, compact form of making precisely those questions you are putting as
example.

Esteban Flamini