je'e ki'e spuda .i mi tugni gi'e zanru la selpa'i di'e cusku
la .ilmen. cu cusku di'ecoi ro do I have a question. Let's consider the sentence {mi djica tu'a da}. Does {da} have scope/priority over {tu'a}, or vice versa? Which of the below expansions is correct? 1) {mi djica lo du'u su'o da zo'u da co'e} -- {tu'a} expands first, it has priority over {da}. 2) {su'o da zo'u mi djica lo du'u da co'e} -- {da} expands first, it has priority over {tu'a}. 3) Ambiguous scope.Number 1) is correct - {tu'a} is opaque. (The rest of LAhE should be as well, though Martin seemed to be hesitant about that; see the recent-ish tersmu thread)The Lojban interpreter Tersmus opines that {da} has priority over {tu'a}. However, this behavior doesn't parallel the way LE is handled: {mi djica lo co'e be da} is interpreted as {mi djica lo poi'i su'o da zo'u ke'a da co'e}, and not as {su'o da zo'u mi djica lo poi'i ke'a da co'e}, so {lo} has scope/priority over {da}.Yes, or you could say that it's the {be} that's opaque, since {broda be su'o da} is itself a selbri. The same happens with tenses inside {be}-clauses. Of course when the {da} is quantified inside a sub-bridi, then its scope won't come out either, which is what happens with {poi'i}, or {noi} in {zo'e noi}.mi'e la selpa'i mu'o
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