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Worked connection for NT-CARRY-A-SEQUENCE

  1. Retain the references needed after a sign has passed. A plan describes successive completed displacements on a grid. East is positive x, north positive y; the starting position is (0,0) and the performer faces north. R means one unit to the performer’s right without turning; F(2) means two units forward without turning. The spoken score is R; F(2), where the semicolon means complete the first displacement before starting the second. To inspect it later, use NOT.8 to construct a persistent companion with the same ordered signs, starting pose and frame convention. NOT.6 connects each spoken occurrence to its position in that score. Retain these references rather than only a list of recognized words.

  2. Carry the interpreted state to the next operation. Use NOT.3’s reading procedure: recover the facing direction, convert each displacement to grid coordinates, update the position, then read the next sign. Here R gives (1,0); F(2) then gives (1,2). No turn occurs. The intermediate position lets a receiving reader ask where the first displacement ends. The score leaves duration and the continuous path within each displacement open. Speaking it more slowly changes the delivery time, but supplies no new movement duration or distance.

  3. Test the translation against its receiving question. An endpoint-only description gives (1,2). It is sufficient for the final-position question under this starting pose. It loses the order needed to recover the intermediate position: F(2); R has the same endpoint but passes through (0,2) rather than (1,0). NOT.5 therefore retains the ordered displacements when the receiver needs that distinction. A richer display of the endpoint alone cannot restore it. If a proposed abbreviation changes order while preserving only the number of signs, NOT.4 must return to the observation that the transformation was meant to preserve.

  4. Propagate a frame change, or change the score for a different intention. Now the performer starts facing east, with the same body-relative signs and no turns. R moves south to (0,-1); F(2) moves east to (2,-1). NOT.6 updates the derived grid account from this changed premise. If the actual request is to retain the old grid displacements instead, define grid-relative signs E(1) and N(2) as one unit east and two units north, each without turning, and write E(1); N(2). This restores the specified waypoints (1,0) and (1,2). Construct these new sign rules through NOT.2 and use NOT.3 to recover their different reading. The continuous path cannot be recovered from the old score alone, because it was never specified.

  5. Pass the right result to a performer. A program receiving the ordered account still needs CMP.12’s input representation and effective interpretation. Physical enactment additionally needs an applicable motion method, physical meaning for a grid unit, timing choices and control. A prepared person may already possess the required movement method. FPF B.5.MPC connects the mathematical, physical and computational contributions when the work needs all three; interpreted observation is needed to establish what movement occurred. The decoded endpoint is already a useful answer to the reading question.

This connection applies whenever changing medium or reader can remove references needed for later operations. A rhythm, laboratory signal or interaction trace needs its own relevant time references and subject rules. The movement case shows how the methods work together; it does not supply those other interpretations.