>"se pezli be cida / .i .e'u ko cliva" is not quite good >lojban. it should be "se pezli cida / .i .e'u do cliva". "se pezli cida" means "there are three leaves on a plant" - you want "leaflets" which is "pezypau". Or you could say "cibypau pezli" How's this?: le cibypau pezli nunpencu te kecti co'omi'e pier.