Phi practice Counting in Phi: the ternary numerals and the four natures

Reading 10 of 11

Part 9

Exercises

Answers at the end, including the keys deferred from Parts 2, 3, 4, and 6. Where judgment is asked, check your reasoning, not just your answer.

Part ARead the quantity

Say the value at reading pace.

  1. wi phoi ta
  2. ta shao wi
  3. ta lau wi phoi wi
  4. wi lau ta shao ta
  5. ta rei ta phoi

Part BCompose the number

Largest unit first, no repeated units, remainder under three.

  1. 13
  2. 20
  3. 26
  4. 31
  5. 57

Part CChoose the nature

Classifier, or a defended bare form.

  1. Five stars, counted by a child at night.
  2. Two years of the journal.
  3. Four bowls on the trader's table.
  4. Three snakes seen at the well over the years.
  5. One blossom on the first tree of spring.

Part DExact or about

Decide, then say it.

  1. The days until sulae returns (she said "after the market").
  2. The eggs the recipe requires (it requires five).
  3. The people at the village meeting (you scanned the circle once).
  4. The stars above the walk home.
  5. The soup, relative to the guests.

Part ETranslate into Phi

  1. The third story.
  2. The first guest received a bowl.
  3. How many trees are in the garden?
  4. Six and three gather; nine becomes.
  5. Twelve eggs portion among four people; three eggs become.

Part FRepair or defend

Each form is either broken, or grammatical-but-saying-something-else, or fine. Judge it.

  1. *ta shao ta shao philo
  2. shao lipha powea: offered as the count for a recipe needing three.
  3. wi themo lopia
  4. rei silero
  5. *ta shao ta phoi noru
  6. *ta shao wi sholei. ta shao wi kelai. offered as 3 + 2 = 5

Check your workAnswer key

AnswersPart A

1: 19. 2: 5. 3: 47 (27 + 18 + 2). 4: 58 (54 + 3 + 1). 5: 90 (81 + 9).

AnswersPart B

6: ta phoi ta shao ta (9+3+1). 7: wi phoi wi (18+2). 8: wi phoi wi shao wi (18+6+2). 9: ta lau ta shao ta (27+3+1). 10: wi lau ta shao (54+3).

AnswersPart B, deferred from Part 2

11: ta phoi wi. 17: ta phoi wi shao wi. 21: wi phoi ta shao. 25: wi phoi wi shao ta. 28: ta lau ta. 33: ta lau wi shao. 45: ta lau wi phoi. 60: wi lau wi shao.

AnswersPart C

11: ta shao wi silero: no classifier is necessary, and none of Phi's four categories clearly improves this count. 12: wi nophe torua: time takes nophe when classified. 13: ta shao ta themo noru. 14: ta shao lipha suliwa if counted as living visitors; use nophe with a noun for sightings if what you are really counting is events. Both analyses are defensible; know which you mean. 15: ta lipha phirali: a living part of a living being.

AnswersPart C, deferred from Part 3

1: ta shao ta lipha shalu: alive and swimming. 2: ta shao ta themo shalu: the nature-now rule at its starkest, because on the table the fish read as goods; omit the classifier if their state or the categorization is unclear. 3: wi nophe melira: sung songs are events. 4: wi lipha thinoe: life in waiting, like the egg. 5: wi shao themo wolea: detached and destined for craft. 6: ta nophe whemura. 7: ta shao himo phemi. 8: wi lipha shonui: living flesh of a living listener.

AnswersPart D

16: about: shao philo, some days; sulae's "after the market" is not a number, and your Phi should not pretend it was. 17: exact: ta shao wi lipha powea; the recipe requires five. 18: about: use the bare scale that the scan supports, perhaps phoi himo miona; one glance supports an estimate rather than a census. 19: rei silero, a great many stars on an eighty-one-group scale, without a digit (Part 8, error 8). 20: henoi sulopa nai. or its negation if sufficiency, rather than volume, is the actual question; otherwise state the quantity the situation needs.

AnswersPart E

21: nu ta shao nophi. 22: nu ta himo phemi ta themo noru to howela. 23: wia lipha shiro mua thepalu nai. 24: wi shao nela ta shao sholei. ta phoi kelai. 25: ta phoi ta shao lipha powea nela ta shao ta himo miona phanoi. ta shao lipha powea kelai.

AnswersPart E, deferred from Part 4

Fifth scene: nu ta shao wi nophi: scenes of a told story are stories. Sixth day: nu wi shao philo. Second trader: nu wi piru; optional himo in nu wi himo piru explicitly states the human category without changing register. Eighth egg: nu wi shao wi powea. First storm of the year: nu ta nophe kurisha; nophe explicitly treats the storm as this year's first event and may be omitted when that analysis is already clear.

AnswersPart E, deferred from Part 6

1: ta shao ta nela ta shao sholei. wi shao ta kelai. 2: wi shao wi nela wi leiro. wi shao kelai. 3: ta shao nela ta shao welura. ta phoi kelai. 4: wi phoi nela wi phanoi. ta phoi kelai. 5: wi shao themo noru nela wi themo noru sholei. wi shao wi themo noru kelai. 6: ta phoi himo phemi nela ta shao themo wonepa phanoi. ta shao himo phemi kelai. The second operand names tables as groups; the quotient remains guests. Three guests to a table, and everyone gets soup. 7: wa ta phoi nela wi shao sharoi. (Yes: nine exceeds six.)

AnswersPart F

26: broken: a remainder of three has formed a group; six is wi shao, and six days are wi shao philo. 27: grammatical but approximate; a recipe requiring exactly three needs ta shao. 28: grammatical but noncanonical classification; children take himo, or the classifier can be omitted: wi lopia. 29: fine as a rough eighty-one-group scale, often translated "a great many stars," not literal uncountability. 30: broken: the units must descend; twelve is ta phoi ta shao, largest first. 31: broken for the intended operation because ta shao wi is one numeral; repair it as ta shao nela wi sholei. ta shao wi kelai.