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KNM-001 · Mammals & Birds

S195 la-zo-se-so so-ka The dog barked. / The sound-sensitive animal vocalized.

Notes

  • zo-se-so = zo (organism) + se (perceive) + so (sound) = organism characterized by acoustic perception. Head-final: so is the perceptual domain; se specifies the act of perception; zo is the base class. Three-primitive kind-term.
  • so-ka = sound + intentional-act = deliberate vocalization in a social context. Head-final: ka (intentional act) is the head; so specifies the domain of the action. First corpus attestation of this compound.
  • Structural finding: la-zo-se-so parses cleanly. The role-marker la- attaches directly to the compound head, treating the whole three-primitive compound as a single NP. No strain.
  • Over-generation flag (see S200): zo-se-so names any animal with significant acoustic perceptual faculties — dogs, cats, dolphins, owls — not dogs specifically. This is not an error; it is an expected feature of the genus-level design. See S200 for the disambiguation stress test.

S196 la-[zo-se-so na Rex] ki Rex the dog ran.

Notes

  • [zo-se-so na Rex] = kind-compound + na-particle + identifier = NP with type label and proper name. The na particle sits inside the NP after the kind-term. This is the key claim: na has NP-internal scope, not sentential scope.
  • la- scopes over the entire bracketed NP. The brackets mark the extent of the complex NP; la- is the external role-marker. Formal: la- + [zo-se-so na Rex], not la-zo-se-so + na Rex.
  • na as NP-internal particle: na partitions the NP into [kind-description | proper-name]. Neither overwrites the other: the kind-term supplies type information; the identifier anchors the individual.
  • Structural finding: clean. la-[kind na Name] reads without ambiguity in the agent slot. ki as bare predicate: physical motion, no patient required.

S197 la-[zo-se-so na Retriever] se lo-zo-ma The Retriever found the food. / The Retriever-variety dog detected organic matter.

Notes

  • na Retriever — the variety name is phonologically adapted and treated as a proper identifier. The breed name is not decomposed into Tonesu primitives: "Retriever" originated as a function-description in English, but in Tonesu it operates as an identifier, not a compositional description. If a Tonesu speaker wanted the functional reading, they would use zo-se-so-ka-se (the deliberate-detection dog class) rather than borrowing the English name.
  • Variety vs. individual: the same [kind na id] structure works for both. A variety (na Retriever) and an individual (S196's na Rex) are structurally parallel — both are na-identified sub-cases of the kind-term. The distinction is pragmatic (variety = maintained sub-kind; individual = one specimen), not grammatical.
  • lo-zo-ma = patient: organism-matter = biological/organic matter = food in the ecological register. Used here as "what an organism consumes" rather than "a culturally desired object."
  • Structural finding: [kind na variety-id] is identical in form to [kind na individual-id]. Grammar does not distinguish variety-names from individual names at the NP level; context does.

S198 la-[zo na Kanis-lupus] so-be-re Canis lupus howled. / The organism named Canis lupus produced sustained repeated vocalization.

Notes

  • zo na Kanis-lupus — bare zo (organism) as the minimal kind-label; na Kanis-lupus as the phonologically adapted binomial. Phonological adaptation: c → k (Tonesu excludes c from its consonant inventory; k is the closest voiceless velar stop). Hyphen marks the two-element binomial as a single identifier unit.
  • Why zo rather than zo-se-so: two registers are available. The scientific register uses the minimal kind-label and lets the binomial carry all specificity: zo na Kanis-lupus. The folk register combines the folk kind-term with the binomial: zo-se-so na Kanis-lupus. Both are valid; choice depends on audience and context.
  • so-be-re = sound + grow + repeat = vocalization that builds and repeats = howl. Head-final: re (repetition/cycle) is the outer head; be (growth/increase) describes the character of each iteration; so is the domain. First corpus attestation: the be-re sustained-iterative compound.
  • Structural finding: la-[zo na [hyphenated-binomial]] is clean. The na-particle takes a two-part hyphenated form as a single phonological token. Taxonomic naming works within the existing na-framework without grammar extension.
  • Design confirmation: na is sufficient for the full identifier range — individual, variety, species binomial, and higher taxa when needed — because whether the identifier is one word or a hyphenated compound is a phonological matter, not a grammatical one.

S199 la-zo-su be The tree grew.

Notes

  • zo-su = zo (organism) + su (structure/organized form) = living thing characterized by its structural/architectural form. Proposed kind-term for the plant/tree category. Head-final: su (structure) is the characterizing domain; zo is the base class.
  • Contrast with zo-se-so: zo-se-so characterizes by perceptual behavior (what the organism does sensorily); zo-su characterizes by structural identity (what the organism is architecturally). This is a principled distinction: plants do not relocate, do not hunt, do not have a social-agency dimension — they are paradigmatically structures that live, whereas animals are paradigmatically active organisms that perceive and move.
  • la-zo-su be = structured-organism grew. The predicate be (growth/increase) applied to a plant has natural resonance: a structured organism increasing is its canonical mode of existence.
  • Over-generation audit: zo-su covers trees, shrubs, vines, grass, kelp, and arguably fungi. This is genus-level, not species-level. "Oak tree" would need additional specification: zo-su na [identifier] or a finer kind-compound. Expected behavior — consistent with the genus-level design confirmed in S200.
  • Structural finding: the cleanest sentence in this batch. Single compound agent, single primitive predicate, no NP complexity. Plant vocabulary via zo-su is structurally sound.

S200 la-zo-se-so se lo-so The dog heard the sound.

Notes

  • Sentences A and B are identical. This is the over-generation finding: zo-se-so does not distinguish dogs from cats. Both are sound-perceiving organisms; the kind-term applies equally.
  • Is this a bug or a feature? Feature. Tonesu kind-terms are assemblage compounds that characterize by composition of primitives. "Dog" and "cat" differ in folk category but share the same primitive characterization at the zo-se-so grain — both are animals that move, perceive sound, and engage in social contexts. A tighter kind-term is possible:
  • Dog → zo-se-so-li (sound-perceiving organism with social-agency orientation): dogs have pack social structure and domestication bond; the li-class behavioral dimension (social intentionality directed at others) is characteristic.
  • Cat → zo-se-so-fe (sound-perceiving organism with boundary/territorial orientation): cats are solitary, range-maintaining, territorial — the fe-class dimension (boundary, edge, limit) is characteristic. These are candidates, not conclusions. Neither is resolved here; flagged for open-questions.md.
  • Design consequence: Tonesu communicators do not need species-precision for most discourse. When the distinction between "dog" and "cat" is contextually salient, three mechanisms are available: (1) finer kind-compounds (zo-se-so-li / zo-se-so-fe), (2) na-identifier resolvable even when kind-terms overlap (zo-se-so na Rex vs. zo-se-so na Miso), (3) the minimal scientific register (zo na Kanis-familiaris, S198 pattern). When species distinction is irrelevant, the genus-term zo-se-so is correct and efficient.

S201 la-[li na Derek] ka-be lo-mu Derek built the machine.

Notes

  • la-[li na Derek] = role-marker + [social-agent + na + identifier]. li is the minimal kind-label for a human person — the same [kind na Name] NP structure as S196 (la-[zo-se-so na Rex]), with li replacing the animal kind-term. The la- role-marker attaches externally, leaving the NP intact — consistent with the Name Integrity Rules in spec/naming.md.
  • la- before na: no collision. The role-marker scopes over the NP; na is NP-internal. The parsing is la- + [li na Derek], not la-li + na-Derek. There is no morphological ambiguity because la- is a role-prefix that attaches to the start of the NP constituent, not a free-standing particle that could compete with na.
  • ka-be = intentional-act + growth = deliberate growth-act = construction. Head-final: be (growth/emergence) is the semantic head; ka (intentional act) specifies that the emergence is deliberate. ka-be lo-mu = perform a creation act with the artifact as patient = to build the device.
  • Pragmatic reduction note: in ordinary discourse, a named human would typically appear as la-na Derek (kind-label li omitted when human referent is established by context). la-[li na Derek] is the fully explicit form; both are valid.
  • Structure confirmed uniform: human naming (la-[li na Name]) and animal naming (la-[kind na Name]) are structurally identical. The grammar is not sensitive to whether the referent is human, animal, or — per spec/naming.md — an AI system (la-[mu-li na Atlas]). na is the universal identifier particle throughout.

KNM-002 · Small Animals

S202 la-zo-se-so-li zi-ka lo-li The dog greeted the person.

Notes

  • zo-se-so-li = zo (organism) + se (perceive) + so (sound) + li (social agent) = the social-bonded kind of sound-perceiving organism. Head-final: li (social agency) is the head; zo-se-so is the modifier class. This is the proposed dog-class kind-term from S200's follow-on.
  • li as head: li (social agent) as the final element means the compound's semantic core is social-bonding orientation. The zo-se-so prefix narrows the class from all social agents to the acoustic-organism sub-class. Potential ambiguity: strictly speaking, zo-se-so-li could apply to any socially bonded acoustic organism including humans. In practice, humans are expressed as li or zo-li — never with the zo-se-so prefix, which is superfluous for humans and signals non-human animal. Disambiguation is pragmatic: the compound is only used within the acoustic-animal class, where li differentiates "social-pack kind" from "territorial kind" (zo-se-so-fe).
  • zi-ka = mutual coupling event (zi) + action domain (ka) = bilateral exchange action = greeting/interaction. zi-ka is the correct form for greeting because greeting is a simultaneous mutual modification: both parties shift state. Directed causation (go/du) would distort the symmetry.
  • Structural finding: zo-se-so-li works as a kind-term. The head li supplies the differentiating behavioural axis without claiming full human moral agency — it reads as "social-orientation type" within the animal class. zi-ka lo-li = mutual-exchange with a person = greeting cleanly expressed.

S203 la-zo-se-so-fe fe-ki lo-pa The cat claimed the territory.

Notes

  • zo-se-so-fe = zo + se + so + fe (boundary/limit/category-distinction) = the boundary-oriented kind of sound-perceiving organism. Head-final: fe is the head; characterizes the species by its territorial, solitary, range-defining mode of existence. Contrasted directly with zo-se-so-li (social-pack kind) from S202.
  • fe-ki = boundary + inchoative = enter a boundary-state = to mark / claim / stake territory. Head-final: ki (motion/change-of-state) is the head; fe specifies the domain of the state change. First corpus attestation of fe-ki.
  • lo-pa = patient:space/location = the territory being claimed. pa (place/space) as the patient of a boundary-claiming act is the natural object: the cat is doing something to a space, not to an object.
  • Dog vs. cat distinction confirmed: S202 and S203 put the differentiation into corpus form. zo-se-so-li (social orientation → chooses proximity, greets, packs) vs. zo-se-so-fe (boundary orientation → marks range, stakes territory, maintains edges). The two kind-terms are minimally contrasting: identical except for the final root, which is the semantic differentiator.
  • fe head note: fe as a differentiating head carries less anthropomorphic charge than li in S202. A cat's territorial behavior is expressed as a property of the organism's structural/categorical orientation, not as social agency. The compound doesn't imply the cat is a moral agent — it characterises a behavioral disposition.

S204 la-ker'zo-se-so so-ka The red dog barked.

Notes

  • ker-zo-se-so without apostrophe: right-branching parse = ker modifies [zo-se-[so]] = "organism perceiving red sound" or at best "red-hued thing that perceives sound, head on so." Neither is correct. Color is a property of the organism as a whole, not of the terminal primitive.
  • ker'zo-se-so with apostrophe: ker + ' (subcompound boundary) + [zo-se-so] = color modifies the pre-bound kind-term unit as a whole = "a [zo-se-so]-class organism that is red." This is the correct parse.
  • ' as scope marker, not just depth signal: the apostrophe here is not just managing parse depth — it is actively re-scoping a modifier. Without it, the default right-branching rule produces a wrong reading. This is the key case for which the apostrophe exists.
  • la-ker'zo-se-so: role-marker la- attaches to the outer NP; the apostrophe is NP-internal. The role-marker does not interact with the apostrophe structure: la- + ker'zo-se-so = agent [red dog-class]. No collision.
  • Structural finding: apostrophe correctly scopes a CVC color descriptor over a 3-root primitives compound. The parse is unambiguous.

S205 la-ker'zo-se-so-li so-ka The red dog barked. (species-level form)

Notes

  • ker'zo-se-so-li: ker + ' + [zo-se-so-li] = color modifies the 4-root finer kind-term as a unit. The apostrophe scopes over four primitives instead of three. The structural mechanism is the same as S204; only the depth changes.
  • Depth comparison: S204's ker'zo-se-so has apostrophe spanning 3 roots; S205's ker'zo-se-so-li spans 4. The ' marker does not care about the length of the subcompound it introduces — it binds everything to its right until the NP boundary or the next '. The parse cost goes up (four roots to hold before interpreting the modifier relation) but the grammar is intact.
  • Neither ker'zo-se-so nor ker'zo-se-so-li requires more than one '. The apostrophe comes before the kind-term, scoping the color over the whole unit. There is no internal ambiguity in zo-se-so-li itself — it right-branches cleanly without a '. The second ' that would have been prohibited under the old rule is not needed here.
  • When would a second ' actually be needed? Only if the color itself were a compound: e.g. ker'zi'pom'zo-se-so = "the dog-class organism whose color is red-blue-blended." At that depth, the two apostrophes mark: (1) ker zi pom as a bound color-compound, (2) that color-compound modifying zo-se-so. Legal under the revised rule; unwieldy in speech; the phrasal form zo-se-so [ker zi pom]-su is preferable in practice.
  • Structural finding: ' scopes over 4-root finer kind-terms identically to 3-root genus kind-terms. Register pressure (not grammar) limits depth.

S206 la-[li na Derek] se lo-ker'zo-se-so Derek noticed the red dog.

Notes

  • lo-ker'zo-se-so: patient role-marker lo- + ker'zo-se-so (color-scoped kind-term). The lo- attaches to the outer NP boundary; the apostrophe is NP-internal. Structurally identical to the agent case in S204: the role-marker prefix does not participate in the ' grouping.
  • Symmetry finding: la-ker'zo-se-so (agent) and lo-ker'zo-se-so (patient) follow the same rule. The apostrophe interacts with NP structure, not with the role position. Role-markers la-, lo- are outside-NP prefixes; ' is inside-NP grouping. The two levels are orthogonal.
  • la-[li na Derek] = standard named-person NP from S201. Brackets used in the gloss for NP boundary clarity; the na particle handles the internal partition.
  • Structural finding: apostrophe-modified kind-term works symmetrically in agent and patient positions. No special rule needed for patient-position color-scoping.

S207 la-[ker'zo-se-so-li na Rex] ki Red Rex ran. / Rex the red dog ran.

Notes

  • la-[ker'zo-se-so-li na Rex]: four structural devices in one NP:
  • la- — role-marker prefix (outside-NP, establishes agent slot)
  • [...] — NP bracket (notation boundary; na partitions the contents)
  • ker'zo-se-so-li — color-scoped finer kind-term (' groups zo-se-so-li as unit for ker to modify)
  • na Rex — identifier particle + proper name (NP-internal; anchors the individual)
  • Parse order: role-marker → NP-open → apostrophe-scoped kind-compound → na-partition → identifier → NP-close. Each device operates at a separate structural level; none compete with the others.
  • Cognitive load: this is the maximum practical NP depth — a native speaker would likely say la-[zo-se-so-li na Rex] (kind + name, color omitted as visually obvious in context) or simply la-na Rex (name alone once Rex is established as referent). The full form exists and is grammatical; register pressure keeps it rare in spontaneous speech.
  • The old one-apostrophe limit would have blocked this. ker'zo-se-so-li uses one apostrophe, and there is no second apostrophe here. The revised rule allows this without extension.
  • Structural finding: all four devices coexist without interference. The NP system is composable to this depth. The limit on depth is cognitive, not grammatical.

KNM-003 · Reptiles & Amphibians

Purpose: determine whether zo-se-so-fe (cat class, KNM-002) and the head-final compound system generate unique, unambiguous kind-terms across all major Felidae, and identify any structural gaps. Seven species-or-species-groups under test: house cat (

S252 la-li-ne'zo-se-so-fe se lo-li The household cat noticed the person. / The domestic cat perceived its human.

Notes

  • li-ne'zo-se-so-fe = li (person/social agent) + ne (relation/connection) + ' + zo-se-so-fe (cat class) = "person-bonded cat." Head of the subcompound: ne (relation), modified by li (person) = the relational property defined by persons = domesticity/human-bond. The zo-se-so-fe base is the bracketed unit being modified.
  • Written form: line'zosesof. The apostrophe is retained in written form as a structural marker; hyphens between CVC roots drop.
  • Semantic loop: li appears in both the kind-term (li-ne = person-bonded) and the patient slot (lo-li = the person). The domestic cat is defined by its person-relation, and this sentence shows it perceiving that person. The compound earns its discriminator in the same sentence.
  • Why li-ne and not just zo-li? zo-li (organism-person) = "organism that is a person" = humanoid — incorrect. li-ne (person-relation) = "the relational bond toward persons." Not claiming the cat IS a social agent; characterising its defining orientation toward persons. Head-final: the relational property (ne) is the head; person (li) specifies whose relation.

S253 la-[li-ne'zo-se-so-fe na Tony] ki Tony the house cat ran.

Notes

  • la-[li-ne'zo-se-so-fe na Tony]: role-marker la- + bracket + apostrophe-scoped compound kind-term + na + proper name + bracket-close. Four structural devices coexist: role-marker, bracket, apostrophe, na-partition. Same assembly depth confirmed by S207 (KNM-002-F).
  • ki = moved. Minimal predicate — the sentence tests the NP structure, not the predicate.
  • TAX-001 resolution (formal grammar level): [li-ne'zo-se-so-fe na Tony] is grammatically complete and unambiguous. No CVCC taxon anchor or architectural change is needed to express "Tony the house cat." The compound is longer than an English word — that is a property of the language, not a structural failure.
  • TAX-001 Option 2 (register path) remains alive: in casual speech, li-ne'zo-se-so-fe might contract toward line'zof (discriminator retained, zo-se-so-fe collapsed to zof). This is a social-register compression, not a grammar rule. The full form is the specification form; contraction is legitimate once established by usage.

S254 la-pu-zo'zo-se-so-fe ki ne-pu The lion moved with the group. / The pride-cat traveled with others.

Notes

  • pu-zo'zo-se-so-fe = pu (collective/plurality) + zo (organism) + ' + zo-se-so-fe (cat class) = "collective-organism cat." Head of subcompound: zo (organism), modified by pu (collective) = the collective kind of organism = group-forming animal. This discriminator encodes the lion's defining biological characteristic: it is the only major cat that lives in stable social prides.
  • ne-pu: relational particle ne + pu (collective) = "in relation to the collective" = with others/the group. The lion (collective-cat) moved with the collective — compound and sentence behavior reinforce each other.
  • zo appears twice: once in pu-zo (discriminator) and once in zo-se-so-fe (base kind-term). The apostrophe at pu-zo'zo-se-so-fe unambiguously separates them: [pu-zo]'[zo-se-so-fe].
  • Why pu-zo and not zo-pu? Head-final: pu (collective) as modifier, zo (organism) as head = "the collective kind of organism." The compound characterizes the organism BY its collectivity, which is the discriminating property.

S255 la-lu-di'zo-se-so-fe no-pu The tiger is solitary. / The striped cat does not live in a group.

Notes

  • lu-di'zo-se-so-fe = lu (light/visibility) + di (direction) + ' + zo-se-so-fe = "directional-light cat." Head of subcompound: di (direction), modified by lu (light) = light with direction = linear light pattern = stripe. Tiger is defined by bold parallel stripe markings among Felidae.
  • no-pu = no (negation) + pu (collective) = not-group = solitary. Stative predicate: agent + no-pu = "is solitary/not-collective." Follows the la-mi no-se pattern (S211 — "I am asleep/not-perceiving").
  • COL-001 dependency flagged: lu-di = compositional approximation for "stripe." Formally pre-registered pending COL-001. The path is clear: stripe = linearly directed light pattern. When COL-001 establishes visual-pattern vocabulary, lu-di is the natural candidate for canonical registration. See notes/open-questions.md § COL-001.
  • no-pu is not the discriminator: solitary behavior is shared by tiger, leopard, and jaguar. no-pu correctly characterises tiger behavior but does NOT distinguish tiger from the other spotted cats. The discriminating root is lu-di (stripe pattern). Both facts belong in the sentence; neither is the full picture alone.
  • Tiger vs. leopard contrast preview: lu-di'zo-se-so-fe (stripe = directional light) vs. lu-pe'be-pa'zo-se-so-fe (spot = partial light, arboreal — S256). The lu-di / lu-pe contrast is the first corpus minimal pair of kind-terms distinguishable only by visual-pattern vocabulary — exactly the anticipated COL-001 forcing case.

S256 la-lu-pe'be-pa'zo-se-so-fe ki lo-be-pa The leopard climbed the tree. / The spotted arboreal cat moved to the treetops.

Notes

  • lu-pe'be-pa'zo-se-so-fe = two nested subcompounds + base kind-term:
  • lu-pe = lu (light) + pe (part/component) = "partial light" = light distributed in parts = dappled/discontinuous = spot pattern. Head: pe (part), modifier: lu (light) = light on parts = spots.
  • be-pa = be (growth/emergence) + pa (place/space) = "growth-place" = place defined by growth = arboreal habitat/forest/canopy. Head: pa (place), modifier: be (growth) = the place where growth dominates = trees/canopy.
  • Full kind-term: [lu-pe]'[be-pa]'[zo-se-so-fe] = spotted, arboreal-territory cat.
  • ki lo-be-pa = moved to the growth-place = climbed to the treetops. The kind-term's second discriminator (be-pa) appears in the object slot — the leopard moves toward the very habitat that defines its kind.
  • Two apostrophes: lu-pe'be-pa'zo-se-so-fe uses two '. Legal under the revised rule (KNM-002, March 2026). Each ' marks the left boundary of one subcompound: lu-pe = visual-pattern modifier, be-pa = habitat modifier. Both modify zo-se-so-fe as a unit, yielding "the spotted arboreal cat."
  • Why two discriminators? A spot-only compound (lu-pe'zo-se-so-fe) would not distinguish leopard from jaguar — both are spotted. The second discriminator (be-pa — arboreal) is what separates leopard (tree-dwelling, Old World) from jaguar (water-terrain, Americas — S257). The system is not working around a deficiency; it correctly requires two axes where one is insufficient to individuate the kind.
  • COL-001 dependency (partial): lu-pe has the same pre-formal status as lu-di (S255). The be-pa discriminator is COL-001-independent and is fully stable now.

S257 la-lu-pe'ma-ki'zo-se-so-fe ki lo-ma-ki The jaguar crossed the river. / The spotted water-terrain cat moved through the flowing matter.

Notes

  • lu-pe'ma-ki'zo-se-so-fe = spotted, water-terrain cat:
  • lu-pe = spot pattern (same as S256 leopard — the shared modifier establishing the minimal pair)
  • ma-ki = ma (matter/substance) + ki (motion) = "matter in motion" = flowing substance = water/river/stream. Head: ki (motion), modifier: ma (matter) = matter that moves = flowing material. Jaguar (Panthera onca) is the large spotted cat of the humid Americas — characteristically associated with rivers and wetlands.
  • Full kind-term: [lu-pe]'[ma-ki]'[zo-se-so-fe] = spotted, water-terrain cat.
  • ki lo-ma-ki = moved across/through the flowing matter = crossed the water. The object is the same compound as the kind-term's second discriminator.
  • Leopard vs. jaguar minimal pair — the hardest case in the batch: both are lu-pe'[x]'zo-se-so-fe. The only difference is [x]: be-pa (arboreal) for leopard vs. ma-ki (water-terrain) for jaguar. Same pattern, same size class, same solitary behavior — the second discriminator subcompound is doing all the distinguishing work.
  • Apostrophe is essential here: without ' to bind lu-pe and ma-ki as distinct subcompounds modifying the base kind-term, the flat right-branching chain lu-pe-ma-ki-zo-se-so-fe produces "light → part → matter → motion → organism → perceive → sound → boundary" — undifferentiated and uninterpretable as a species kind-term. The ' structure is not optional at this depth; it is the mechanism that makes the compound grammatically distinct from noise.
  • System finding: two-discriminator apostrophe-scoped compounds correctly handle the leopard/jaguar minimal pair. The language's hardest Felidae case does not break the grammar.

S258 la-pa-fe'zo-se-so-fe ki lo-pa-fe The puma crossed the ridge. / The mountain-terrain cat moved along the terrain edge.

Notes

  • pa-fe'zo-se-so-fe = pa (place/space) + fe (boundary/limit) + ' + zo-se-so-fe (cat class) = "terrain-boundary cat." Head of subcompound: fe (boundary), modifier: pa (place) = "the boundary of place" = terrain edge = ridge/highland/mountain limit. Puma concolor's defining habitat is open mountain terrain with wide-ranging elevation use — a cat defined by terrain edges.
  • ki lo-pa-fe = moved across the terrain-boundary = crossed the ridge. Kind-term discriminator and object are the same compound.
  • Biological collapse: "puma," "cougar," and "mountain lion" are three English regional names for the same species (Puma concolor). They produce a single Tonesu kind-term. Tonesu kind-terms track biological reality; cross-linguistic folk-name proliferation is not inherited.
  • pa-fe double-fe note: written form pafe'zosesof. The fe in pa-fe (terrain boundary) and the final fe in zo-se-so-fe (cat-class head) are both present. The apostrophe provides an unambiguous boundary: [pa-fe]'[zo-se-so-fe]. The internal fe of pa-fe is inside the first subcompound; the terminal fe is the head of the base kind-term. No collision.

S259 la-no-lu'lu-pe'ma-ki'zo-se-so-fe ka Written: nolu'lupe'maki'zosesof The panther (dark jaguar) hunted. / The melanistic jaguar acted.

Notes

  • no-lu'lu-pe'ma-ki'zo-se-so-fe = no-lu (dark/black coat) + ' + lu-pe'ma-ki'zo-se-so-fe (jaguar kind-term from S257). no-lu = no (negation) + lu (light/visibility) = absence of light-reflection = dark coat = melanistic/black. Written: nolu'lupe'maki'zosesof.
  • "Panther" is not a kind in Tonesu. In English, "panther" refers to melanistic coat variants of two species: black jaguar (Panthera onca, Americas) and black leopard (Panthera pardus, Africa/Asia). The underlying organism is always one of those species with a genetic mutation causing dark coat pigmentation. In Tonesu: dark jaguar = no-lu'lu-pe'ma-ki'zo-se-so-fe; dark leopard = no-lu'lu-pe'be-pa'zo-se-so-fe. Neither receives a new kind-term entry.
  • no-lu as "dark/black" pre-COL-001: no-lu = absence-of-light = dark. This is path (c) compositional derivation from the COL-001 open question: color by root + no- negation. When COL-001 formally registers "black," no-lu is the natural compositional candidate. Already consistent with how no-ha = cold (absence of thermal state), no-se = asleep (absence of perception).
  • Three apostrophes: no-lu'lu-pe'ma-ki'zo-se-so-fe is the deepest NP compound in the corpus to date. Each ' marks one subcompound boundary:
  • no-lu = color modifier (dark coat)
  • lu-pe = visual-pattern subcompound (spots)
  • ma-ki = habitat subcompound (water-terrain) All three modify the base zo-se-so-fe. Grammatically legal; cognitively dense in speech — in practice, discourse context resolves which melanistic cat is meant, and the full three-apostrophe NP is reserved for explicit species identification or written/technical register.
  • Architecture validation: the color-as-modifier system correctly refuses "panther" a kind-term slot. A folk category that is color × species, not a biological kind, produces a color-modified kind-term — exactly what the system is designed to do.

S260 la-mi ko lo-[li-ne'zo-se-so-fe na Tony] I have Tony the house cat. / Tony the domestic cat is mine.

Notes

  • la-mi ko lo-[...]: possession via ko (containment/having, confirmed from S238 onward). la-mi = agent: me. ko = predicative have/contain. lo-[...] = bracketed patient NP.
  • lo-[li-ne'zo-se-so-fe na Tony]: role-marker lo- + bracket + apostrophe-scoped compound kind-term + na Tony. The possessive scopes over the full bracketed NP.
  • TAX-001 direct answer: "my cat Tony" in formal register = la-mi ko lo-[li-ne'zo-se-so-fe na Tony]. The compound li-ne'zo-se-so-fe is four compound elements before the name. This is the structural cost of species-level specificity in a compositional language. No architectural extension is needed — the grammar is sufficient as-is.
  • Contraction path (TAX-001 Option 2): in casual register, li-ne'zo-se-so-fe may contract toward line'zof — keeping the discriminator li-ne, collapsing zo-se-so-fe to the proposed zof shortform. This is register compression, not grammatical necessity. The full form is specification; the contraction is a social path awaiting attestation.
  • na Tony: proper name protected by Name Integrity Rule (spec/naming.md). Follows the kind-term, anchoring the individual. Identical structure to na Rex in S207.

KNM-004 · Primates & Domestic Animals

Purpose: stress-test zo-se-so-li (pack-social acoustic organism, KNM-002) against the full domestic/wild canid range, and determine whether the li/fe class boundary established by KNM-002 sits at the correct biological grain. Five species under test: wolf (

S261 la-wi-pu'zo-se-so-li ka lo-zo ne-pu The wolf pack hunted prey together. / The pack-intent canid performed collective intentional action on prey.

Notes

  • wi-pu'zo-se-so-li = wi (will/intention) + pu (collective/plurality) + ' + zo-se-so-li (pack-social acoustic organism) = "collective-will pack canid." Head of subcompound: pu (collective), modified by wi (will) = the collectivity that operates through unified intent = pack intelligence/hierarchy. Wolf's defining characteristic is not just that it lives in groups (coyotes and jackals do that too) but that the pack functions as a unified intentional agent — hunt coordination, territory governance, hierarchy. wi-pu captures this.
  • ka lo-zo: intentional action (ka) on an organism (zo) = predation/hunting. zo as patient = prey organism. The predicate is deliberately minimal — the wolf's characteristic act is acting ON organisms.
  • ne-pu: in relation to the collective = together/as a group. The pack-intent organism (wi-pu base) hunts together (ne-pu relational) — the kind-term's own discriminator surfaces in the predicate context.
  • Why wi-pu and not ka-pu? ka (intentional action) is already a derivative process; wi (will/intention) is the more foundational claim — the pack owns a collective will, not just collective activity. Coyotes also perform collective action sometimes; what characterizes wolf uniquely is that the pack is a true collective-will unit with stable hierarchy and coordinated intention. wi-pu is the stronger and more precise discriminator.

S262 la-li-ne'zo-se-so-li se lo-li The dog noticed the person. / The person-bonded pack canid perceived its human.

Notes

  • li-ne'zo-se-so-li = person-relation social-pack acoustic organism. Head of subcompound: ne (relation), modifier: li (person) = the relational property defined by persons = domesticity/human-bond. Identical construction to li-ne'zo-se-so-fe (house cat, S252) — the discriminator is the same; only the base kind-term class changes.
  • li-ne confirmed as universal domestication marker. S252 (house cat) used li-ne'zo-se-so-fe; S262 (dog) uses li-ne'zo-se-so-li. The same subcompound li-ne tags domestic species in both the territorial-acoustic and pack-acoustic organism classes. Predictive: any domesticated species whose wild ancestor holds a zo-se-so-[x] kind-term will have a domestic counterpart as li-ne+[wild kind-term]. The domestication operator is a structural constant.
  • Sentence parallel to S252 (cat) is intentional. la-li-ne'zo-se-so-fe se lo-li (house cat perceived person) and la-li-ne'zo-se-so-li se lo-li (dog perceived person) are structurally identical — same predicate, same patient, same discriminator, different base class. The compounds differ only in the class suffix (fe vs li). This is the clearest possible demonstration that li-ne is a modifier on a class, not on a species.

S263 la-wi-pu'zo-se-so-li ka lo-zo , la-li-ne'zo-se-so-li zi-ka lo-li The wolf hunted prey; the dog greeted the person.

Notes

  • Two clauses, comma-separated. Same base kind-term class (zo-se-so-li) throughout; only the discriminator subcompound changes.
  • Wolf clause: ka lo-zo = intentional predatory action on an organism = hunting. Wolf is defined by its collective-will hunting.
  • Dog clause: zi-ka lo-li = mutual exchange with a person = greeting (established S202, KNM-002-A). Dog is defined by its person-exchange relationship.
  • The wild→domestic axis in two clauses: wi-pu (collective will / pack intent = autonomy, wild organization) vs li-ne (person bond = domesticity, human attachment). The same evolutionary lineage splits at this axis. Both sit on zo-se-so-li; the discriminator is the entire semantic distance between wolf and dog.
  • Dog/wolf biological note: Dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a subspecies of wolf (Canis lupus). Unlike puma/cougar/mountain lion (collapsed in KNM-003 because they are regional names for a single population), dog and wolf have sufficiently distinct behavioral profiles to warrant separate kind-terms. The biological relationship is real; the separate kind-terms are justified by behavioral divergence, not arbitrary folk naming.

S264 la-be-fe'zo-se-so-li fe-ki lo-pa-be The coyote moved into the new territory. / The edge-expanding canid entered the growth-zone.

Notes

  • be-fe'zo-se-so-li = be (growth/increase/emergence) + fe (boundary/limit) + ' + zo-se-so-li = "growing-edge pack canid." Head of subcompound: fe (boundary), modifier: be (growth) = a boundary characterized by growth/expansion = an expanding edge = ecological margin. Coyote's defining property is that it is the canid of expanding margins: it colonizes new territory as wolf ranges contract, adapts to every biome, thrives at the interface between wild and human-settled space.
  • fe-ki = boundary + inchoative = entering a boundary state = expanding into / claiming new territory. The same compound as S203 (cat claiming territory), here used by the edge-adaptive canid claiming a new edge.
  • pa-be = place + growth = growth-place = expanding space / new territory. The patient mirrors the discriminator: be-fe (growing-boundary organism) enters pa-be (the growing-place). Compound and object are structurally self-reinforcing.
  • be-fe vs pa-fe (puma, S258): pa-fe = terrain-boundary = a fixed high-altitude edge (mountain ridge). be-fe = growth-boundary = an expanding/dynamic edge (colonization margin). Puma is defined by stable terrain edges; coyote is defined by edges that grow.

S265 la-bun nu zi-ne'zo-se-so-li ka lo-zo Two jackals hunted prey. / The bonded pair of canids performed intentional action on prey.

Notes

  • zi-ne'zo-se-so-li = zi (mutual/coupling) + ne (relation/connection) + ' + zo-se-so-li = "mutual-bond pack canid." Head of subcompound: ne (relation), modified by zi (mutual coupling) = a relation that is mutually coupled = pair bond. Jackal's defining social structure is the monogamous mated pair — not the multi-individual pack coordination of wolf, not the person-orientation of dog. zi-ne (mutual-relation) = the relational bond defined by bilateral coupling = pair bond.
  • bun nu zi-ne'zo-se-so-li = two-quantity pair-bonded canids = the jackal pair. Numeric NP from NUM-001: bun (digit 2) + nu (quantity particle) + kind-term. The numeric NP places both members of the mated pair as joint agents, reinforcing the pair-bond compound with literal pair count.
  • zi-ne vs zi-ka (greet, W105) vs zi-zo (biological coupling, W106): zi-ka = mutual exchange of intentional action = greeting. zi-zo = mutual biological coupling event = mating/symbiosis. zi-ne = mutually coupled relation = the ongoing bond state resulting from that coupling. State vs event distinction: zi-zo is the event; zi-ne is the persisting relational state. The jackal kind-term uses the state form, correctly — the pair bond is not the mating event itself but the ongoing social unit.
  • zi-ne double-ne note: zi-ne contains ne, and zo-se-so-li is the base. The apostrophe cleanly separates [zi-ne]'[zo-se-so-li]; no structural collision.

S266 la-zo-se-so-li fe-ki lo-pa The [pack-social organism] claimed the territory.

Notes

  • This sentence is structurally WRONG if the subject is a fox. zo-se-so-li asserts the subject is a social-pack-oriented acoustic organism. But the predicate — fe-ki lo-pa (entering boundary state over space = territorial claiming, S203) — is characteristic of zo-se-so-fe organisms (territorial/solitary). A zo-se-so-li subject performing a zo-se-so-fe behavior produces an incoherent compound: "the pack-social animal behaved like a territorial-solitary animal." The mismatch is the distortion signal.
  • Fox (Vulpes spp.) is solitary and territorial. Foxes do not form packs; they occupy and defend territories as individuals or mated pairs. The li (social-pack agency) head at the terminal position of zo-se-so-li incorrectly characterizes the fox. The fe (boundary/territorial orientation) head of zo-se-so-fe correctly characterizes it.
  • Finding: zo-se-so-fe ≠ "cat class exclusively." zo-se-so-fe characterizes any territorial-boundary acoustic organism — a behavioral category, not a biological family. It correctly covers both cats (Felidae) and foxes (Vulpes). The "cat class" label from KNM-002 was provisional shorthand; the compound was always compositionally precise. The over-generation is in the label, not the compound.
  • This is the same type of finding as S200 (KNM-001-F). S200 found zo-se-so over-generates to cover both dogs and cats; adding li vs fe resolved it. S266 finds the resulting zo-se-so-li class is correctly partitioned — fox confirms the li/fe cut is at the right biological grain. No further subdivision of the base is needed; fox simply belongs to zo-se-so-fe.
  • zo-se-so-fe now confirmed to include: house cat, lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, puma (KNM-003) + fox (KNM-004). The class is territorial acoustic organisms, biologically: all Felidae + Vulpinae (fox subfamily) + any future organisms fitting the behavioral profile.

S267 la-ko-pa'zo-se-so-fe ki lo-ko-pa The fox entered the den. / The den-dwelling territorial acoustic organism moved into the contained space.

Notes

  • ko-pa'zo-se-so-fe = ko (containment/interior) + pa (place/space) + ' + zo-se-so-fe = "contained-space territorial acoustic organism." Head of subcompound: pa (place), modified by ko (containment) = a place defined by containment = den/burrow. Fox's defining ecological feature among zo-se-so-fe organisms is the underground den: foxes excavate and inhabit burrows as primary home structures. Cats do not do this — cats use open space, trees (be-pa, leopard), terrain edges (pa-fe, puma), water margins (ma-ki, jaguar). The fox discriminator is the contained/interior space.
  • ki lo-ko-pa = moved into the contained-space = entered the den. As in previous kind-term sentences, the object mirrors the kind-term's own discriminator.
  • Fox vs cat minimal pair under zo-se-so-fe: all cat kind-terms use open/exterior habitat discriminators (be-pa = arboreal, ma-ki = water, pa-fe = terrain edge). Fox uses ko-pa = the contained interior space. The interior/exterior boundary (ko vs pa) cleanly separates fox from all cats in one step.
  • ko-pa as a first corpus compound: ko (containment/interior) + pa (place) = contained-place = den, cave, burrow, enclosed habitat. Compositionally sound; not previously attested. First use here.

S268 la-mi ko lo-[li-ne'zo-se-so-li na Max] I have Max the dog.

Notes

  • la-mi ko lo-[li-ne'zo-se-so-li na Max]: structurally identical to S260 (la-mi ko lo-[li-ne'zo-se-so-fe na Tony]). Same possessive predicate (ko), same NP structure ([kind-term na Name]), same li-ne discriminator. Only the base class differs: zo-se-so-li (dog) vs zo-se-so-fe (cat).
  • TAX-001 two-family audit: at this point, zo-se-so-fe has species-level kind-terms for 7+ organisms (KNM-003 + fox); zo-se-so-li for 4+ organisms (wolf, dog, coyote, jackal). Both 4-morpheme bases are productive, well-tested, and used in possessive NPs. The compound kind-terms work at every level — syntax, semantics, possessives, na-naming. The grammar has no gaps.
  • The colloquial pressure is real and now doubled. "My cat Tony" = la-mi ko lo-[li-ne'zo-se-so-fe na Tony] and "My dog Max" = la-mi ko lo-[li-ne'zo-se-so-li na Max] together constitute two everyday sentences that any fluent speaker will say hundreds of times. Both have a 4-morpheme, 8-phoneme base before the discriminator. The contraction path (zof/zol) would reduce both to 3-phoneme stub-forms matching English "cat"/"dog" length. No architecture is needed — only corpus attestation of the contracted forms. See S269.

S269 la-mi ko lo-[li-ne'zol na Max] I have Max the dog. (casual register)

Notes

  • zol = colloquial contraction of zo-se-so-li. Compression pattern: zo + [se-so dropped] + li → zol. The middle acoustic-organism qualifiers (se = perceive, so = sound) are contextually recoverable in any discourse involving familiar animal kinds; they are stripped in the casual register. The stub-form zol = "pack-social acoustic organism (informal)" — unambiguous within discourse about canids or pack animals.
  • zof = colloquial contraction of zo-se-so-fe (proposed entry, attested by symmetry). Pattern: zo + fe → zof. Both contractions follow the same rule: retain zo (the organism anchor) + the class-differentiating final root, drop the acoustic-organism middle (se-so).
  • Contraction rule: both forms satisfy the three criteria from spec/word-formation.md § Contraction and Compression Rules: (1) formal compound is 4 morphemes long ✓; (2) short form is unambiguous within its domain (acoustic-animal discourse) ✓; (3) formal form zo-se-so-li remains the canonical registered entry ✓.
  • Compression mechanism: the same as to-ne-su → tonesu (language name) and ti-past-to-si-ko-mu → to-ko (memory, W027). Middle qualifiers that narrow the class without disambiguating within expected discourse context are the canonical compression target. se-so is the acoustic-organism narrowing; it is recoverable in any context where pack animals are the discourse topic.
  • Both zol and zof are adopted simultaneously. They are a symmetric pair — the li/fe class distinction is preserved in the stub-form coda; only the shared acoustic-organism middle is stripped. The pair should enter the colloquial registry together.
  • Kind-term discriminators contract independently. li-ne'zol (domestic dog) and li-ne'zof (house cat) retain their discriminator prefix intact; only the base is shortened. The discriminator prefix is NOT recoverable from context (it differentiates within the class), so it cannot be stripped. The contraction boundary is always at the class base, never at the discriminator.
  • Predictive: all future compound kind-terms built on the zo-se-so-fe/-li bases may now use the zof/zol stub-forms in casual register. wi-pu'zol = wolf (casual), ko-pa'zof = fox (casual), pu-zo'zof = lion (casual), be-fe'zol = coyote (casual).

KNM-005 · Canids, Felids, Ursids

Purpose: establish the bird base kind-term and test it against the full range of the class — including the flightless-penguin stress case. Key architectural decision: terminal class root di (direction), giving zo-se-so-di. Stub: zod (CLQ-002a).

S279 la-zo-se-so-di ki The bird flew.

Notes

  • zo-se-so-di = zo (living thing) + se (perception) + so (sound) + di (direction) = directional acoustic organism. The terminal class root di (direction) distinguishes this class from li (pack-social = canids) and fe (territorial-boundary = felids/foxes). Birds are the acoustic organisms defined by directed spatial movement: flight, migration, aerial navigation.
  • ki (motion) without a patient = intransitive movement = flight. The simplest possible bird sentence establishes the base.
  • Why di and not ki? ki is already in the base chain (zo-se-so + ki would produce a parsing conflict with the /ki/ motion root, and ki alone is too broad — rocks fall, rivers flow). di (direction) is the narrower, more specific claim: the bird class is defined not merely by movement but by oriented, directed movement. Migration is direction. Aerial predation is direction. Penguin swimming is direction (through water rather than air, but still di).
  • Stub: zod = zo + [se-so dropped] + di → zod. Colloquial class stub, registered CLQ-002a.

S280 la-wi-di'zo-se-so-di ka lo-zo The eagle hunted prey.

Notes

  • wi-di'zo-se-so-di = wi (will/intention) + di (direction) + ' + zo-se-so-di (bird class) = intentional-direction bird. Head of subcompound: di (direction), modified by wi (will) = direction governed by intention = purposive aerial hunting. The eagle's defining characteristic is that its flight is intentionally directed at a target: hunting soars, stoop dives, territory-mapping overflights.
  • ka lo-zo = intentional action on an organism = predation. Identical to wolf S261: the predator template.
  • wi-di vs wi-pu (wolf, S261): wolf's intent is collective (wi-pu = collective will = pack intelligence). Eagle's intent is singular and directional (wi-di = directed will = hunting precision). Both compounds use wi but the second element marks the mode of intention: pack coordination vs aerial navigation.
  • Covers: eagles, hawks, falcons, ospreys — all large apex raptors defined by intentional directed predatory flight. Owls are edge cases (nocturnal, ambush rather than directed flight) — to be resolved with corpus pressure.

S281 la-si-so'zo-se-so-di si lo-so Written: siso'zosesodi The parrot mimicked the sound. / The parrot encoded the sound.

Notes

  • si-so'zo-se-so-di = si (signal/representation/encoding) + so (sound) + ' + zo-se-so-di (bird class) = encoded-sound bird. Head of subcompound: so (sound), modified by si (encoding) = sound that is encoded / reproduced as a signal = vocal mimicry. The parrot is the bird whose primary defining characteristic is the ability to encode and reproduce sounds from its environment — a second-order relationship with sound. Other birds make sound (so); the parrot encodes sound (si-so).
  • si lo-so = encoded the sound = mimicry act. si as predicate = to encode/represent. The parrot's predicate mirrors its kind-term discriminator.
  • si-so'zo-se-so-di double-so note: the compound contains so in both the discriminator (si-so) and the base (zo-se-so). The apostrophe cleanly separates [si-so]'[zo-se-so-di]. Written: siso'zosesodi. No ambiguity — the apostrophe is the boundary.
  • Covers: parrots, parakeets, macaws, cockatoos — any bird defined by vocal learning. Corvids (crows, ravens) are also vocal learners but have additional social-cognitive characteristics that may warrant their own discriminator.

S282 la-ma-ki'zo-se-so-di ki lo-ma-ki The penguin swam. / The water-directed bird moved through flowing matter.

Notes

  • ma-ki'zo-se-so-di = ma (matter/substance) + ki (motion) + ' + zo-se-so-di (bird class) = flowing-matter bird / water-directed bird. Head of subcompound: ki (motion), modified by ma (matter) = matter-motion = fluid movement = aquatic locomotion. The penguin's defining medium is water: it flies through water rather than air.
  • The di root is validated, not broken. di in zo-se-so-di is not "aerial flight" — it is directed spatial movement through a medium. The penguin redirected its di from air to water across evolutionary time. zo-se-so-di remains the correct biological base; the discriminator encodes which medium the direction operates in.
  • Parallel to fox (S266–S267): fox confirmed zo-se-so-fe is not "cat-class exclusively" — it is "territorial acoustic organism." Penguin confirms zo-se-so-di is not "flying bird" — it is "directional acoustic organism." The class is always behavioral, never a biological family name.
  • ma-ki reuse: ma-ki was first attested as the jaguar discriminator (flowing-water habitat, KNM-003). Here it is a bird discriminator (aquatic locomotion). Same compound, different role — jaguar's ma-ki is habitat; penguin's ma-ki is locomotion medium. Compositional polysemy handled by context; no collision.

S283 la-li-ne'zo-se-so-di be lo-zo-be Written: zobe The chicken laid an egg.

Notes

  • li-ne'zo-se-so-di = person-bonded directional-acoustic organism = domestic bird. Third class to receive the li-ne domestication discriminator: house cat (li-ne'zo-se-so-fe, S252), dog (li-ne'zo-se-so-li, S262), chicken (li-ne'zo-se-so-di). li-ne is now confirmed as the universal domestication operator across all three zo-se-so-[x] classes.
  • zo-be = zo (living thing) + be (growth/creation) = organism-growth = the biological product of organismic growth processes = egg, seed, spore, or pre-separation offspring. First corpus use. The egg is the growth-product of the organism before separation; it is still a zo-class object (contains living material) and defined by be (growth/production). Written: zobe.
  • zo-be scope note: zo-be is not "egg" narrowly — it is any biological reproductive product separated from the parent organism. A chicken egg is zo-be. A plant seed is also zo-be. A spore is zo-be. The narrowing (egg vs seed) comes from discourse context and the parent organism's kind-term.

S284 la-mi se lo-zod I saw a bird.

Notes

  • zod = zo + [se-so dropped] + di → zod. Compression pattern identical to zol / zof. Middle acoustic-organism qualifiers (se-so) contextually recoverable in any discourse about birds or flying things; stripped in casual register. Terminal root di (direction) retained: class-distinguishing.
  • Registers as CLQ-002a in registry/colloquial.md.
  • zod disambiguation: no existing CVC entry conflicts. zod is unambiguous within animal discourse. If a future class also contracts to zod, context resolves; formal compound is the fallback.

S285 la-pu nu zo-se-so-di ki lo-di-pa The birds flew to their destination. / The flock migrated.

Notes

  • pu nu zo-se-so-di = plurality-quantity of directional-acoustic organisms = a flock. Numeric NP pattern from NUM-001: quantity prefix + nu + kind-term.
  • di-pa = direction + place = directed-place = the place a directed path leads toward = destination / migration endpoint. First corpus use of di-pa as a compound. The bird batch is the natural forcing case: migration is the paradigmatic example of goal-directed movement toward a place. di-pa = the place-that-is-a-direction = a destination, not merely a location.
  • Migration semantics: ki lo-di-pa = moved toward the directed-place = traveled to the destination = migrated. The sentence is structurally identical to ordinary movement; what makes it "migration" is the kind-term (a zo-se-so-di organism, defined by direction, moving toward a di-pa). The kind-term and the predicate object are semantically self-reinforcing.

KNM-006 · Fish and Aquatic Organisms (S307–S313)

Purpose: resolve the zo-se-so vs zo-se-[x] architectural question for fish and aquatic organisms. Key decision: fish do NOT use the zo-se-so acoustic layer. Fish branch at zo-se-ma (matter-perceptual organism). Whale stress test produces an unexpected outcome: whales ARE zo-se-so but with a new terminal root pa (place), not di (direction). Stubs: zom (CLQ-005a) and zop (CLQ-005b).

S307 la-zo-se-ma ki lo-ma-ki Written: zosema The fish swam.

Notes

  • zo-se-ma = zo (living thing) + se (perception) + ma (matter) = matter-perceptual organism = fish / aquatic organism. The organism defined by perceptual integration with its material medium. Where zo-se-so-[x] organisms perceive and produce sound, zo-se-ma organisms perceive matter in motion — pressure gradients, chemical gradients, electric fields in water. Written: zosema.
  • Why no so layer: the zo-se-so chain establishes organisms for whom sound encoding/production is the primary behavioral signature. Fish do not qualify — the lateral line is mechanoreception of the medium itself, not of encoded acoustic signals. The perceptual layer (se) is retained; the acoustic specialization (so) is not.
  • ki lo-ma-ki = moved through flowing-matter = swam. First time a non-human organism is directly paired with ma-ki (water) as its patient medium, rather than via compound discriminator. The fish swims through ma-ki; the penguin lives AS ma-ki'zo-se-so-di.
  • zo-se-ma tier: a new intermediate tier below zo and above the terminal class roots. Previous tiers: zo-se-so → zo-se-so-li/fe/di. Fish introduce zo-se as a productive intermediate: zo-se-ma (matter-perceptual); future organisms may branch at zo-se-[x] with a different terminal root.
  • Stub: zom = zo + [se dropped] + ma → zom. Single middle root dropped, not two like zol/zof/zod. Different compression depth, same rule. Registered CLQ-005a.

S308 la-di-pa'zo-se-ma ki lo-di'ma-ki Written: dipa'zosema The salmon reached the river. / The salmon completed its migration.

Notes

  • di-pa'zo-se-ma = di-pa (directed destination, established S285) + ' + zo-se-ma (fish class) = destination-directed aquatic organism = salmon. The apostrophe marks di-pa as a two-root compound discriminator on the fish base. Head: zo-se-ma (fish), discriminated by di-pa (destination-directed). Written: dipa'zosema.
  • di-pa reuse: di-pa was first established as the migration-destination compound for birds (S285). The salmon is the forcing case for the same compound in the aquatic domain: migration defined by the compulsion to reach a specific destination. The compound is domain-agnostic; both bird migration and salmon spawning runs are di-pa phenomena.
  • ki lo-di'ma-ki = moved to the directed-flowing-matter = reached the river. The salmon's destination (di-pa) is a river (di'ma-ki): two compounds both built on di (direction), one for the organism's behavioral target and one for the water feature. Both di compounds appear in the same sentence and are unambiguous: di-pa (discrimination-head, organism-modifier) vs di'ma-ki (standalone NP patient).
  • Two-step connection: KNM-006 (fish) ← di-pa → KNM-005 (bird migration, S285); KNM-006 (fish) ← di'ma-ki → MAT-002 (river, S300). The salmon sentence connects three prior batches.

S309 la-wi-ki'zo-se-ma ka lo-zo Written: wiki'zosema The shark hunted prey.

Notes

  • wi-ki'zo-se-ma = wi (will/intention) + ki (motion) + ' + zo-se-ma (fish class) = intentional-motion aquatic organism = shark / apex aquatic predator. Head: zo-se-ma (fish), discriminated by wi-ki (intentional motion = directed pursuit through the medium). Written: wiki'zosema.
  • Three-predator wi alignment confirmed:
  • wi-pu'zo-se-so-li = wolf (intentional-collective = pack coordination)
  • wi-di'zo-se-so-di = eagle (intentional-direction = aerial stoop)
  • wi-ki'zo-se-ma = shark (intentional-motion = aquatic pursuit) Three apex predators; three modes of intentional hunting; three wi-[x] discriminators.
  • ka lo-zo = intentional action on an organism = predation. Identical predicate to wolf (S261) and eagle (S280). The predator template ka lo-zo is now attested across three classes: canid, raptor, and elasmobranch. The template is class-agnostic.
  • Scope: all apex aquatic predators defined by active pursuit — sharks, barracuda, billfish. Not filter-feeders (different discriminator territory).

S310 la-pu nu zo-se-ma ki lo-ne The fish moved together. / The school moved as one.

Notes

  • pu nu zo-se-ma = plurality of matter-perceptual organisms = a school of fish. Same NP construction as pu nu zo-se-so-di (flock, S285). pu nu [kind-term] is confirmed as the general collective-quantity NP pattern for organism groups: flock (S285), school (S310).
  • ki lo-ne = moved relationally = moved in coordination with others = schooled together. ne (relation/connection) as motion patient: the object of collective movement is the relational bond itself — the fish don't move to a place but in relation to each other. This is the first use of ki lo-ne as a compound predicate structure. Schooling is not directed toward a destination (di-pa) or a medium (ma-ki); it is directed toward mutual coordination.
  • ki lo-ne vs flock migration: a flock migrates ki lo-di-pa (moved toward destination). A school schools ki lo-ne (moved in relation). The patient encodes the purpose: destination-directedness vs. relational cohesion. Two distinct collective motions, one predicate root, different objects.

S311 la-zo-se-so-pa so lo-pa'ma-ki Written: zosesopa The whale sang across the sea.

Notes

  • zo-se-so-pa = zo (living) + se (perception) + so (sound) + pa (place) = place-acoustic organism = whale / cetacean. Terminal class root pa (place) marks that this organism's acoustic behavior operates at the spatial scale of places — whale song propagates across ocean basins, the largest spatial unit in our current inventory (pa'ma-ki). Written: zosesopa.
  • The architectural verdict: whales are NOT zo-se-ma despite being aquatic. They are zo-se-so (acoustic organisms) because whale song is their primary behavioral signature — a second-order sound signal encoding of identity, location, and relationship, not merely mechanoreception of the medium. The aquatic habitat is secondary; the acoustic character is primary. Identical principle to the penguin: aquatic habitat does not override the class assignment.
  • so as predicate = produced sound = sang/vocalized. First corpus use of so as a sentence-level predicate (previously: compound element only). so intransitive = to sound, vocalize, sing. lo-pa'ma-ki = across the sea = the sound fills the sea.
  • zo-se-so-pa vs zo-se-so-di: birds (di) are directional — their acoustic output is orients them in space (echolocation, territory calls, migration coordination). Whales (pa) are place-spanning — their acoustic output operates across an entire medium at maximum scale. The terminal root names the spatial relationship of the acoustic behavior: di (direction = orientation) vs pa (place = scale).
  • Stub: zop = zo + [se-so dropped] + pa → zop. Same compression as zol/zof/zod: mid-layer se-so dropped; terminal root (pa) retained. Registered CLQ-005b.

S312 la-zo-se-ma be lo-zo-be na-di'ma-ki The fish laid eggs in the river.

Notes

  • be lo-zo-be = produced a biological-growth-product = laid eggs. Third corpus use of this predicate structure: chicken S283 (egg), tree S291 (fruit/seed), fish S312 (egg). Three biological kingdoms; one predicate. zo-be (biological reproductive product) is now confirmed across: birds, plants, and fish.
  • na-di'ma-ki = identifier/location at the river. na as a location marker here: the river is the location of egg-laying. (na previously appeared as name-identifier in na Max, S269.) First use of na as a location/context marker — the na particle is flexible: it identifies an associated referent (name, location, context) in an NP position.
  • Editorial note: na-di'ma-ki as a locative is productive if na generalizes as "associated with" — na [place] = at/in [place], na [name] = named [name]. To be confirmed in a future grammar note.
  • zo-be scope now confirmed across four species and two biological kingdoms: chicken (bird), tree (plant), salmon-class fish here. Plus the general zo-se-ma base in this sentence rather than a specific species — the most general fish attestation.

S313 la-mi ko lo-zom Written: zom I caught a fish. (casual register)

Notes

  • zom = zo + [se dropped] + ma → zom. Fish-class stub. One middle root dropped (se), not two as in zol/zof/zod — the fish class has a shallower base chain (zo-se-ma, three morphemes) vs acoustic organisms (zo-se-so-[x], four). The compression drops the single middle morpheme; terminal root ma (matter) retained as class-distinguishing. Written: zom. Registers as CLQ-005a.
  • ko lo-zom = enclosed the fish = caught the fish. ko (enclose/contain) as catching predicate: to catch an animal is to enclose it — in net, in hands, in a vessel. First time ko appears with a living-thing patient in human-agent context (ko lo-zo-be S294 = soil held seeds was agent:soil not agent:human). Human agent + ko + organism = catching.
  • Six-stub inventory: zol (canid), zof (felid/fox), zod (bird), zos (plant), mas (rock), zom (fish). First stub whose middle dropped layer is a single morpheme. The six stubs cover five major natural-world categories.

KNM-007 · Large Land Animals — Horse, Cattle, Deer (S314–S320)

Purpose: establish zo-se-ne as the herd-ungulate base kind-term, resolving the scaffold's open question about terminal root. Three discriminators: horse (di'zo-se-ne), cattle/bison (pu'zo-se-ne), deer (re'zo-se-ne). Key architectural decision: herd animals branch at zo-se-ne (social-relational perceptual organism) — a third branch off the zo-se-[x] intermediate, alongside zo-se-so-[x] (acoustic) and zo-se-ma (matter-perceptual/fish). de and re first attested as sentence-level predicates. Stub: zon (CLQ-006a).

S314 la-zo-se-ne de lo-zo-su Written: zosene The deer grazed. / The herd animal ate.

Notes

  • zo-se-ne = zo (living thing) + se (perception) + ne (relation) = social-relational perceptual organism = herd ungulate. The organism defined by its perceptual integration into a social network: the herd as collective sensory array. Each member monitors the posture, orientation, and alarm-state of its herd-mates as primary perceptual input. Written: zosene.
  • Third branch off zo-se-[x]:
  • zo-se-so-[x] = acoustic-perceptual: organisms whose primary perceptual channel is sound encoding/production
  • zo-se-ma = matter-perceptual: fish whose primary perceptual channel is the material medium (lateral line)
  • zo-se-ne = social-perceptual: herd animals whose primary perceptual channel is the social/relational network of the herd
  • de lo-zo-su = consumed/reduced the structural organism = grazed. First corpus use of de as a sentence-level predicate. de (decay/decrease) applied transitively: agent causes patient to diminish = eating. lo-zo-su = the plant material. Grazing is caused plant-diminishment; the predicate de names the direction of change.
  • de vs be: be lo-zo-su would mean "caused the plant to grow" (planted). de lo-zo-su = caused the plant to decrease = ate/grazed. The predicate polarity encodes cultivation vs. consumption.
  • Stub: zon = zo + [se dropped] + ne → zo + n (initial consonant of ne) = zon. One middle root dropped (as in fish zom). Registered CLQ-006a.

S315 la-di'zo-se-ne ki lo-di'ma-ki Written: di'zosene The horse ran to the river.

Notes

  • di'zo-se-ne = di (direction) + ' + zo-se-ne (herd animal) = directed social-perceptual organism = horse. Head: zo-se-ne (herd animal), discriminated by di (direction) = the herd animal whose defining survival strategy is directed high-speed movement. The horse survives by outrunning; it flees at maximum directed speed. Written: di'zosene.
  • di discriminator recurrence: four organisms now use di in their kind-term compound:
  • zo-se-so-di = bird (terminal root: all birds are directional organisms)
  • wi-di'zo-se-so-di = eagle (discriminator: directional-intentional bird)
  • di-pa'zo-se-ma = salmon (discriminator: destination-directed fish)
  • di'zo-se-ne = horse (discriminator: directed herd animal) Four distinct uses of di in kind-terms: as terminal class root (birds), as intentional-modifier discriminator (eagle), as destination-compound discriminator (salmon), and as bare direction discriminator (horse). All compositionally transparent; no collision.
  • ki lo-di'ma-ki = moved to the river. Links directly to MAT-002. The horse at the river is the paradigmatic watering-hole scene; di'zo-se-ne (horse) moves toward di'ma-ki (river): two di-compounds in one sentence, one naming the horse's behavioral character, the other naming the destination.

S316 la-pu nu pu'zo-se-ne ko lo-pa Written: pu'zosene The cattle covered the plain. / The herd spread across the land.

Notes

  • pu'zo-se-ne = pu (collective/plurality) + ' + zo-se-ne (herd animal) = collective social-perceptual organism = cattle / bison / mass-herd ungulate. Head: zo-se-ne (herd animal), discriminated by pu (collective) = the herd animal defined by collective density as its defining characteristic. Cattle and bison survive through mass — the herd is so dense that predators cannot isolate individuals. Written: pu'zosene.
  • Double-pu structure: pu nu pu'zo-se-ne: pu nu is the NP-level quantity operator (plurality-of), as established in S285 (flock) and S310 (school). pu'zo-se-ne is a compound discriminator (the cattle kind-term, defined by collective nature). The two pu operate at different syntactic tiers: NP quantity prefix vs compound discriminator-head. Unambiguous: NP-tier pu is always followed by nu; compound-tier pu is always followed by the apostrophe + base kind-term. No parsing conflict.
  • ko lo-pa = covered/enclosed the place = covered the plain. Same predicate as S289 (grass covering ground), S295 (gravel covering path), S301 (sea covering land). The pattern ko lo-pa now spans four agents: plant, inorganic aggregate, water body, and herd animal. The same covering-of-terrain predicate applies across all four with full compositional regularity.
  • pu'zo-se-ne vs wi-pu'zo-se-so-li (wolf pack): both use pu — wolf's collective is predatory intentional (wi-pu = intentional collective), cattle's collective is survivalist mass (bare pu = collective without intentionality). The wolf pack has will; the cattle herd has density.

S317 la-re'zo-se-ne re lo-pa Written: re'zosene The deer returned to the place. / The deer came back.

Notes

  • re'zo-se-ne = re (repetition/cycle) + ' + zo-se-ne (herd animal) = cyclic social-perceptual organism = deer. Head: zo-se-ne (herd animal), discriminated by re (cycle) = the herd animal defined by cyclic returns to specific places — breeding grounds, seasonal territories, ancestral wintering ranges. Deer are not defined by speed (horse) or collective mass (cattle): they are defined by place-memory and seasonal return. Written: re'zosene.
  • re lo-pa = cycled back to the place = returned. First corpus use of re as a sentence-level predicate. re (repetition/cycle) transitive: agent restores a prior position in relation to a patient = returned/came back to. The deer's return to its home range is the paradigmatic re event. The compound kind-term (re'zo-se-ne) and the predicate (re) share the same root — the deer IS the cyclic animal; the act it performs IS the return.
  • re as predicate scope: re lo-[place] = returned to the place. re lo-[time] = recurred at the time. re lo-[zo] = repeated the interaction with the organism. The predicate is broadly productive wherever cyclic recurrence involves a patient.
  • Self-reinforcing compound-predicate pair: this sentence is the most structurally tight in the corpus so far. la-re'zo-se-ne re lo-pa = (the cyclic organism) (performed the cycle) (to the place). Subject kind-term and predicate share the same root; the sentence is tautologically true by the organism's definition. Compare: la-zo-se-so-pa so lo-pa'ma-ki (S311: the place-acoustic organism sounded across the sea) — same pattern.

S318 la-mi ki na-[li-ne'di'zo-se-ne] Written: lidi'zosene I rode the horse.

Notes

  • li-ne'di'zo-se-ne = li-ne (domestication operator) + di'zo-se-ne (horse) = domesticated directed herd animal = horse (domestic). Two-level discriminator: li-ne (relationship-marker: person-bonded) + di (species-marker: directed-speed). Written: lidi'zosene (apostrophe dropped when discriminators stack? — to clarify: written form: lidi'zosene — the apostrophe separates the compound discriminator li from the base di'zosene; the discriminator-chain li-ne'di' is a stacked discriminator block). Registry note: stacked discriminator orthography needs a grammar note.
  • ki na-[...] = moved associated-with = moved in coordination with = rode. na as association/context particle confirmed in S312 (fish at river) as location marker. Here na marks the riding partner/vehicle. Moving na [horse] = moving in association with the horse = riding. The na particle spans: name identification (na Max, S269), location (na di'ma-ki, S312), and movement-vehicle/partner (S318). Three-slot particle.
  • Fourth li-ne attestation: house cat (S252), dog (S262), chicken (S283), domestic horse (S318). Now confirmed across all three zo-se-so-[x] organism classes plus the new zo-se-ne class. li-ne is fully class-agnostic.

S319 la-li-ne'pu'zo-se-ne de lo-zo-su na-ma-pa Written: line'pu'zosene The cattle grazed the field.

Notes

  • li-ne'pu'zo-se-ne = domesticated collective herd animal = cattle/cow (domestic). Double discriminator: li-ne (domesticated) + pu (collective-kind). Written: line'pu'zosene. Corresponds to cattle specifically — the domestic variant of the pu'zo-se-ne (collective herd animal) class.
  • de lo-zo-su na-ma-pa = consumed plant material at soil = grazed the growing field. na-ma-pa = associated with soil/earth = at the soil = in the field. The field is not a new kind-term but a locative description: plant material (zo-su) growing at soil (ma-pa). The sentence encodes: domestic cattle consumed the plant material located at the ground = grazed the pasture. No new kind-term needed; na-ma-pa as a locative phrase is fully compositional.
  • Pastoral compound: la-li-ne'pu'zo-se-ne de lo-zo-su na-ma-pa is the most complex sentence in the corpus by NP count — four arguments (agent, predicate, patient, location). All elements are previously established; the sentence is a composition test. It passes.
  • de lo-zo-su confirmed as universal grazing predicate. S314 (deer), S319 (cattle), both de lo-zo-su. Class-agnostic grazing predicate established.

S320 la-mi se lo-zon [ku?] Written: zon Have you seen a deer? (casual register, speaker asking) / Did you perceive a herd animal?

Notes

  • zon = zo + [se dropped] + ne → zo + n (initial consonant of ne) = zon. One middle root dropped; terminal root initial retained. Herd-animal class stub. Written: zon. Registers as CLQ-006a.
  • ku as a query particle: this is the first sentence with an interrogative in the corpus. ku = question marker; placed at the end of the clause. The sentence is otherwise structurally identical to the declarative la-mi se lo-zon (I perceived a herd animal). The ku suffix converts any declarative into a yes/no question. First-attested; grammar note deferred to spec/grammar.md.
  • Note: ku was not in the primitives set — it is a grammatical particle like la-, lo-, na. Grammatical particles are not entered in the primitives registry (they are not semantic roots). ku should be registered in spec/grammar.md.
  • First interrogative in the corpus. The sentence is marked as a question directed at a second person: la-mi se lo-zon ku? could be read as either "Did I perceive a deer?" (self-directed) or "Have you seen a deer?" (other-directed). Person marking in questions needs grammar attention; left as an open note.
  • Eight-stub inventory: zol (canid), zof (felid/fox), zod (bird), zos (plant), mas (rock), zom (fish), zop (whale), zon (herd animal).

KNM-008 · Insects, Arachnids, and Invertebrates (S321–S327)

Purpose: resolve the architectural question for arthropods across the full diversity of the group — ants, spiders, crickets, bees, flies. The scaffold proposed zo-pe-[x] or zo-[x]; the outcome is zo-pe (component organism) as the arthropod base, branching off zo at the second root like zo-su (plants), NOT through the zo-se-[x] perceptual tier. Key developments: zi first attested as sentence predicate; ko-ne (colony/hive) introduced; CVC namespace saturation: zop is occupied by whale, no CVC stub for this class.

S321 la-zo-pe be lo-pe Written: zope The arthropod molted. / The insect shed its shell.

Notes

  • zo-pe = zo (living thing) + pe (part/component) = component organism = arthropod / modular invertebrate. The organism defined by its articulated, segmented body plan. Where zo-su (plant) is the organism whose body IS its internal structural organization, zo-pe is the organism whose body IS its modular segmented parts. Both are structural branches off zo; the distinguishing root (su vs pe) names the kind of structural organization. Written: zope.
  • be lo-pe = produced parts = grew new parts = molted (ecdysis). The arthropod grows by generating a new exoskeleton (pe = a new set of body-parts) and shedding the old one. The establishing sentence is a molting sentence because molting is the uniquely arthropod growth act — it is what be (produce/grow) means in the zo-pe domain. Compare be lo-zo-be (laid an egg/bore fruit): in both cases the agent produces a biological object from itself.
  • zo-pe architectural placement: branches off zo at the second root. NOT through the zo-se-[x] perception tier. The zo-se-[x] axis organizes organisms by their primary perceptual mode; arthropods do not have a single perceptual signature across the class. The body-plan axis (zo-su plants, zo-pe arthropods) is orthogonal to the perceptual axis.
  • CVC namespace note: zo-pe → CVC compression = zop. zop is already CLQ-005b (whale: zo-se-so-pa). The arthropod base class cannot hold a CVC stub without collision. First CVC collision in the zo- prefix space. Casual form remains disyllabic zo-pe. See S327.

S322 la-ne'zo-pe ki lo-ko-ne na-zo-be Written: ne'zope The ant brought food to the colony. / The worker carried food home.

Notes

  • ne'zo-pe = ne (relation) + ' + zo-pe (arthropod) = relational arthropod = ant / colonial insect. The arthropod defined by the fact that all its biology is organized around maintaining and serving a relational network. An individual ant has no meaning outside the colony relation; the colony-as-relation IS the organism's defining context. Written: ne'zope.
  • ko-ne = ko (enclosure) + ne (relation) = enclosed relation = colony / hive / nest / any bounded social structure. First corpus use. A colony is not merely a collection (pu) — it is an enclosed relational network: the colony boundary determines membership, allocates roles, and organizes behavior. ko-ne applies to ant colonies, bee hives, termite mounds, and any organism group with a closed social boundary. Written: kone.
  • ki lo-ko-ne = moved toward the enclosed-relation = moved to the colony. na-zo-be = associated-with biological-product = carrying food. na as cargo/accompaniment: fourth documented role. Prior roles: name identifer (na Max, S269), location (na-di'ma-ki, S312), movement-partner (ki na-[horse], S318), now cargo/accompaniment.
  • ne'zo-pe vs zo-se-ne (herd animals): both use ne (relation). Herd animals are zo-se-ne — they are vertebrates (on the zo-se tier) whose primary perceptual mode is social-network awareness; the herd is a loose perceptual array. Ants are ne'zo-pe — arthropods with relation as their discriminator; the colony is a tightly enclosed social architecture (ko-ne). Different branches, same relation root, different structural consequence.

S323 la-su'zo-pe be lo-su Written: su'zope The spider built a web.

Notes

  • su'zo-pe = su (structure) + ' + zo-pe (arthropod) = structure-composing arthropod = spider. The arthropod defined by producing an external structural artifact as its primary behavioral act. The spider's web is both toolmaking and predation: it builds a geometrically precise trap before it can hunt. No other arthropod species-group is so completely defined by its built structure. Written: su'zope.
  • Spider is an arachnid (8 legs, Arachnida), not an insect (6 legs, Insecta). Tonesu makes no such distinction at the zo-pe tier: zo-pe covers all arthropods and modular segmented invertebrates. The Linnaean class boundary is not a semantic primitive in this language. Spider is su'zo-pe (structure-arthropod) by behavioral discrimination, not by taxonomic family.
  • be lo-su = produced structure = built a web. Third compound-predicate tautology of the batch: the structure-arthropod (su'zo-pe) produces structure (be lo-su). Join S325 (zi'zo-pe zi) and S324 (so'zo-pe so) below.
  • su as structural discriminator recurrence: su marks organized structure in ma-su (rock = organized mineral matter), su'ma-ki (ice = organized water), su'ma-pa (clay = organized soil), zo-su (plant = structural organism), and now su'zo-pe (spider = structure-producing arthropod). The root su consistently names the "organized form" property regardless of what it modifies.
  • Predation without wi-[x]: wolf, eagle, and shark all use wi-[x] (intentional pursuit) as their predatory discriminator. The spider does not pursue — it builds and waits. The predation is encoded in the behavior (be lo-su = builds the trap) rather than in an intent-modifying discriminator. Two valid predatory architectures: wi-[mode]'[class] (active pursuit) and su'[class] (structural trap-building).

S324 la-so'zo-pe so Written: so'zope The cricket chirped. / The cicada called.

Notes

  • so'zo-pe = so (sound) + ' + zo-pe (arthropod) = sound-arthropod = acoustic insect: cricket, cicada, katydid. The arthropod whose primary behavioral signature is sound production — acoustic output as the defining act. Written: so'zope.
  • so intransitive = produced sound = chirped/called. Reused from S311 (whale: zo-se-so-pa so). so as a predicate is now confirmed across the widest possible scale range: the largest acoustic organism (blue whale, ocean-spanning sound) and one of the smallest acoustic arthropods (field cricket, sub-meter territory calls). The predicate is scale-agnostic.
  • Compound-predicate tautology: la-so'zo-pe so = the sound-arthropod sounded. Same structural pattern as: la-re'zo-se-ne re lo-pa (deer returned, S317); la-zo-se-so-pa so lo-pa'ma-ki (whale sang, S311). The so root appears in both the kind-term discriminator and the predicate.
  • Acoustic insect vs acoustic vertebrate: acoustic insects are so'zo-pe (sound-discriminated arthropods), not zo-se-so-[x] (acoustic organisms on the vertebrate perception tier). The discriminator approach (so on zo-pe) is flat; the acoustic-organism tier (zo-se-so) is deep. Both encode sound-primacy correctly but at different structural depths: insects don't have a perceptual apparatus that mediates their sound — they ARE sound-producing arthropods by morphology.

S325 la-zi'zo-pe zi lo-lu-be'zos Written: zi'zope The bee pollinated the flower. / The bee coupled with the flower.

Notes

  • zi'zo-pe = zi (mutual/coupling) + ' + zo-pe (arthropod) = mutual-coupling arthropod = bee / pollinator. The arthropod defined by mutual coupling events with plants. The bee-flower interaction is the canonical natural zi event: both parties transform simultaneously — the bee receives nectar (energy substrate from the plant), the flower receives pollen transfer (reproductive dispersal by the bee). Neither transformation precedes the other; both are caused by the coupling itself. Written: zi'zope.
  • zi lo-lu-be'zos = mutually coupled with the flower-plant = pollinated. First corpus use of zi as a sentence-level predicate. zi (mutual/coupling event) takes a patient: the coupling partner. zi lo-[partner] = entered mutual coupling with → pollinated / mated with / underwent symbiosis with.
  • zi predicate semantic scope: the bee-flower coupling is a paradigm case but zi lo-[zo] generalizes to: any two organisms that enter a coupled state where both are transformed — mating, symbiosis, mutualism, coevolved interaction. The bee example is chosen because it is unambiguously zi (not ka = one-sided predation, not ne = static bond, not go-du = cause-effect chain — the flower doesn't "cause" the bee to get nectar in a unidirectional chain; both transformations are simultaneous and mutual).
  • zi'zo-pe connects KNM-008 to PLT-001: the coupling partner is a lu-be'zos (flower-plant, established S288, S292). The bee cannot be defined without the flower; the flower's lu-be discriminator (visible-bloom growth = conspicuous signal to attract pollinators) is precisely the plant-side architecture of this zi coupling. Bee and flower are mutual definitions in the corpus.
  • Compound-predicate pattern: la-zi'zo-pe zi lo-... = the coupling arthropod coupled. Fourth such pair in this batch.

S326 la-de'zo-pe de lo-ma Written: de'zope The fly fed on the carcass. / The maggot decomposed the matter.

Notes

  • de'zo-pe = de (decay/decrease) + ' + zo-pe (arthropod) = decay-arthropod = fly / decomposer insect: blowfly, carrion fly, maggot, dung beetle, burying beetle. The arthropod defined by its ecological role in decomposition — the organism that consumes and accelerates the breakdown of dead organic matter. Written: de'zope.
  • de lo-ma = caused matter to decrease = decomposed material = fed on the carcass. lo-ma (bare matter) as the patient: dead organic matter at the level of raw material, no longer zo (living) but returned to ma (matter). Third predicate use of de. S314 (de lo-zo-su = consumed plant), S319 (same, cattle), S326 (de lo-ma = consumed dead matter). Patient encodes the state: living plant (zo-su) vs. dead matter (ma). Grazing and decomposition are the same predicate; the patient distinguishes the ecological context.
  • Compound-predicate tautology (fifth of the batch): la-de'zo-pe de lo-ma = the decay-arthropod caused decay. Subject, predicate, patient all three encode decay/consumption.
  • Ecological cycle closed. The full material cycle is now expressible with established vocabulary: rain falls on soil → soil holds seeds → tree grows → tree bears fruit → herd animal eats plant → herd animal dies → matter returns to soil... and the fly feeds on the matter (de lo-ma), accelerating its return. The complete carbon cycle from rain to decay has no step requiring vocabulary outside current primitives and compounds.

S327 la-mi se lo-zo-pe I saw a bug. (casual register; no CVC stub available)

Notes

  • No CLQ entry for this attestation. zo-pe → CVC compression = zop. zop is registered as CLQ-005b (whale: zo-se-so-pa). The arthropod class cannot produce a CVC stub without CVC-space collision with the whale class. The disyllabic form zo-pe is itself the casual form.
  • First CVC namespace collision in the zo- prefix space. Occupied coda consonants in the zo- stub set: l (zol), f (zof), d (zod), s (zos), m (zom), p (zop), n (zon). All seven stubs use a different final consonant; pe → p is occupied. No remaining single-consonant coda that is both phonologically legal and compositionally transparent is unoccupied for a common arthropod-class stub.
  • The cassual form zo-pe is two syllables. The stub system admits this. The CVC ceiling in the contraction rule is a maximum, not a requirement. zo-pe spoken at normal pace is approximately as short as zop plus a schwa — the difference is minor. Context reliably disambiguates zo-pe (arthropod) from any zo-[full-compound] because pe is not a common initial element in discriminator chains.
  • Discriminated casual forms remain unaffected. ne'zo-pe (ant), su'zo-pe (spider), so'zo-pe (cricket), zi'zo-pe (bee), de'zo-pe (fly) — all five have unique discriminator prefixes and cannot collide with any existing stub. The collision is only at the zero-discriminator base-class level.

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