[lojban-beginners] Question about attitudinals and word order.

[José Reyes <skeptic5396@gmail.com>]

 I recently decided to learn lojban (complete beginner here) and I'm using the Wave Lessons and the CLL for reference. I have a question about lesson four of the Wave Lessons. It says that attitudinals are applied to the previous word. In a part of the lesson it introduces da'i, which changes propositional attitudinals to pure attitudinals and vice versa when using da'i nai. The exercise for using da'i and da'i nai is to translate “I give the apple away”? while expressing obligation towards the giving. One of the correct translations given is "mi dunda da'i nai .ei lo plise", but the way I translated it is "mi dunda .ei da'i nai lo plise", as it felt to me that if attitudinals are supposed to apply to the previous word, then .ei would express the obligation about dunda, and that the da'i nai would change that obligation from a supposition to a fact statement. Is there a rigid word order for attitudinals and/or using multiple attitudinals, or are both the given translation and mine correct?

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