[toki pona] Beginner Questions & Answers

In the course of writing my new post about toki pona noun phrases and formal semantics I generated multiple new questions:

  • Would you say that, say, "soweli jelo" and "jelo soweli" mean different things? If so, what's the difference?
  • Is "soweli pi jan ala" grammatical? Can it refer to non-people animals? If your worldview is that, say, cows don't have personhood.
  • If so, how grammatical is "soweli ala pi jan ala li moku e pipi"? Can it mean that "non-person beasts don't eat bugs"?
  • Can "soweli li moku e pipi ala" mean that "cows don't eat bugs"? Or does that need to be "soweli ala li moku e pipi"?
  • Can "soweli li moku e pipi ala" mean that "cows eat something other than bugs"? If so, can "soweli ala li moku e pipi ala" mean "cows don't eat anything other than bugs" aka "cows only eat bugs" (this is, if soweli is understood to be cows, what that "soweli li moku e pipi taso" means, right?)?
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