Re: [lojban] semantic parser - tersmu-0.1rc1

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
> * Saturday, 2011-12-03 at 19:06 -0300 - Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>>
>> I could just as well have said "ro da poi verba cu pencu lo nazbi be
>> da". It didn't occur to me you would think the version with "ro"   was
>> more clear.
>
> No more or less clear in that case... if we assume that there's only one
> nose per da, then I don't see any difference between {lo}, {ro},
> {piro}/{ro'oi}, {su'o} or {piza'u}/{su'oi} here. Arguably, {lo} is
> a little misleading, as it asks you to use pragmatics when there's no
> need for it - it might lead you to expect that some unusual metaphorical
> meaning of nazbi was in use.

Assuming that there's only one nose per da is a pragmatic assumption,
but the presence of the quantifier conspires against making that
assumption.

>> ro da poi verba cu pilno lo re xance be da lo nu kavbu lo bolci
>
> {ro da poi verba cu pilno pi ro xance be da [ku noi re mei ku'o] lo nu
> kavbu lo bolci}
>
> s/pi ro/ro'oi/ if you prefer.

"ro'oi" is not equivalent to "pi ro" though. "ro'oi" would say that
each child uses the left hand, and the right hand, and both hands.
"ro'oi da broda" entails "ro da broda" and "ro lo re mei cu broda" and
"ro lo ci mei cu broda" and ... not just "pi ro lo ro mei cu broda"
(assuming I'm getting "pi ro" right).


>>   (prenex1) ge (prenex2) da da broda gi (prenex3) ko'a da broda
>
> Once we've got that far, I think it's clear. The two subsentences are
> handled separately - i.e. can, donkey anaphora aside, be handled in
> either order - each producing a proposition. So there must be two
> existential quantifiers here, one for each subsentence.

Then forethought and afterthought connectives would give different
results when quantifiers are involved. I don't think that's what the
designers intended when coming up with their rules though.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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