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title: "translation-meta-rules-apply — Mova code model"
description: "Mova code model of tools/translate/src/rules.rs: components with their labels, obernants and the model text."
url: "https://groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/mova/tools/translate/src/rules.rs.groupant/apply.groupant/"
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# translation-meta-rules-apply

The groupant beside tools/translate/src/rules.rs in the Mova repository: what the code computes, what it never does, how to go back from its outputs, its invariants, cost and checks.

## Facts

- **kind:** groupant_fragment
- **status:** partial source bound model
- **source:** [`tools/translate/src/rules.rs`](https://github.com/ElamurAI/mova-free/blob/main/tools/translate/src/rules.rs)
- **source SHA-256:** `75efe37eaf50694d…`
- **covers:** Concept and tag replace matching fields. Drop computes gone, climbs head links while gone, then projects kept sequence with prefix-count coordinates. (bytes 2600–3700)
- **part of:** [translation-meta-rules](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/mova/tools/translate/src/rules.rs.groupant/)
- **repository folder:** [`tools/translate/src/rules.rs.groupant/apply.groupant`](https://github.com/ElamurAI/mova-free/tree/main/tools/translate/src/rules.rs.groupant/apply.groupant)
- **repository commit:** `855da7bd4a7b`

> **Implementation material.** A Mova code model describes this code at one source revision: partial models, finite checks and their stated scope. It is not a reviewed general exposition, and its labels are shown as written, never raised.

## Components

| component | label | where |
|---|---|---|
| **approximant** | partial | [approximant](#approximant) |
| **ast** | partial | `../syntax.json` |
| **cost** | symbolic source derived | [invariant](#invariant) |
| **descriptant** | present | [descriptant](#descriptant) |
| **invariant** | partial | [invariant](#invariant) |
| **tests** | bounded native receipts | [tests](#tests) |

## Obernants

The typed relations around the forward model: the behaviour complement (what the code never does), the reverse reconstruction (every input compatible with an output) and specialised views.

| id | type | label | where |
|---|---|---|---|
| `behavior_complement` | behavior_complement | partial source derived model | [behavior_complement](#behavior-complement) |
| `reverse_reconstruction` | reverse_reconstruction | partial source derived model | [reverse_reconstruction](#reverse-reconstruction) |
| `root_preservation` | root_preservation | partial source derived model | [root_preservation](#root-preservation) |
| `unmatched_identity` | unmatched_identity | partial source derived model | [unmatched_identity](#unmatched-identity) |
| `field_locality` | field_locality | partial source derived model | [field_locality](#field-locality) |
| `cycle_exclusion` | cycle_exclusion | partial source derived model | [cycle_exclusion](#cycle-exclusion) |

## Model text


### descriptant

#### Description and epoch memory

Concept and tag replace matching fields. Drop computes gone, climbs head links while gone, then projects kept sequence with prefix-count coordinates.

##### Prospective epoch 2026-10-31

Models predicted metadata loss, bounded coordinate transport and deterministic tie selection before test changes. Production bytes are preserved; only five inline synthetic tests were appended across the group.

##### Observation epoch 2026-10-31

Selected named native tests are bound in tests.md; raw receipts are external under $MOVA_DATA/runs/octopus-wave32-tr_meta-2026-10-31. Syntax is generated twice and byte-compared. This is partial syntax without macro expansion or semantic resolution.

##### Gaps

No real annotator/model loads, corpus translation, teacher calls, GPU, full training/evaluation, or language-accuracy claim. No executable percentage surrogate is supplied: an appropriate reference metric/domain is not established. Supported future caps are1/2/5/10 percent only. Residual reconstruction is conditional on retained diagnostics and is not persistent learning.

### approximant

#### Forward relation

Concept and tag replace matching fields. Drop computes gone, climbs head links while gone, then projects kept sequence with prefix-count coordinates.

### invariant

#### Invariant and cost

##### Domain and preservation

Finite acyclic in-range dependency forest; empty input admitted.

##### Cost

O(n²) worst dropped chains; O(n) masks/coordinate vectors/output beyond cloned strings.

Counters and allocation arithmetic must remain representable. String/map costs include compared bytes; finite evidence is not a throughput estimate.

### models

## Typed models

Subject: exact source hash in manifest; observation is one call or the stated finite training pass. All models are partial source-derived relations, not universal proof. Domain and resource assumptions are in invariant.md. The baseline exclusion is an inner source-derived claim on that domain; reverse is a compatible-antecedent relation. Specialized relations hold fixed the parameters and tables unless stated otherwise. Evidence uses the named checks in tests.md; individual assertions cover only finite parts, other branches remain prospective.

### behavior_complement

Drop cannot retain a token whose concept equals selected concept; Concept never removes positions.

### reverse_reconstruction

Fixed Drop output permits arbitrary deleted concept nodes inserted on compatible ancestor paths. Concept(target) may have originated as source or preexisting target.

### root_preservation

Root0 remains0 through all variants.

### unmatched_identity

No matching token means clone-equal output.

### field_locality

Tag changes only exact concept+old-tag matches.

### cycle_exclusion

Unlike bounded FwTable climb, a cycle entirely dropped may not terminate; acyclicity required.

### tests

#### Checks and evidence

- rules::tests::drop_reattaches_and_a_rule_that_fixes_gains

Exact cargo commands use package translate, binary translate, --offline --locked and -- --exact --test-threads=1. External native-commands.json lists every name; debug and release run twice, numerical status and named outcomes retained. Some tests target other portions of the file; this fragment has source reasoning plus only the overlapping assertions.

Compiled controls mutate production decision expressions and restore exact original bytes; see external mutations.json and restoration receipt. No assertion-only mutation is counted. The evidence summary is authoritative for completed receipts. Scoped source reasoning and finite tests do not establish total branch coverage.