UNIT 1 - STUDYING MEANING
1. ... is the study of utterance meaning while ... is the study of sentence meaning and word meaning.
a. Semantics, pragmatics
b. Entailment, semantics
c. Pragmatics, compositionality
d. Pragmatics, semantics
2. “The meeting will be held next week.” This is an example of ...
a. Entailment
b. Deictic
c. Propositions
d. Compositionality
e. Pragmatics
3. “Sharks hunt seals” can carry the same meaning as stated below, that is ...
a. Sharks are seals
b. Shark is a kind of fish
c. Seals are hunted by sharks
d. Sharks are hunted by seals
e. Sharks and seals live in the sea
4. If “the food was delicious” is true, we can be sure that the food was ...
a. Very good
b. Bad
c. Spicy
d. Salty
e. Very bad
5. Dictionary meaning can be called as ...
a. Sense
b. Reference
c. Deixis
d. Entailment
e. Denotation
UNIT 2 - ADJECTIVE MEANING
1. “A little boy stands under the apple tree.” The word “little” in that sentence can be described as ...
a. Little in size
b. Very small
c. Small, not big; not much
d. Small in stature
e. Not long
2. Pairs of adjectives below are synonyms, except ...
a. Silent noiseless
b. Brave courageous
c. Polite courteous
d. Rich wealthy
e. True false
3. “California is richer than some countries” entails “some countries are poorer than California” is the example of ...
a. Antonyms
b. Converses
c. Complementaries
d. Gradability
e. Ambiguity
4. Amanda is my girl-friend, and if Amanda is my girl-friend then I am willing to have a dinner with her. Therefore ...
a. Amanda is my girl-friend
b. I love Amanda
c. Amanda hates me
d. I am willing to have a dinner with her
e. I am willing to be his boy-friend
5. Converseness is found not only between comparative adjectives but also in other word classes, such as ...
a. True false
b. On off
c. Left right
d. Above below
e. Cheeky impudent
UNIT 3 - NOUN VOCABULARY
1. A prototype house has ...
a. A roof, a door, windows
b. Kitchen, garden, a door
c. Toilet, mirror, windows
d. Windows, garden, a roof
e. Kitchen, a roof, a door
2. Rose, liliy and dandelion are hyponyms of the superordinate word ...
a. Animal
b. Flower
c. Shape
d. Colour
e. Fruit
3. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are the example of ...
a. Prototype
b. Superordinate
c. Hyponyms
d. Incompatibility
e. Count nouns
4. ... can be counted while ... are quantified with the word much.
a. Count nouns, mass nouns
b. Mass nouns, count nouns
c. Hyponyms, superordinates
d. Mass nouns, prototype
e. Deictic, count nouns
5. Trees have spatial parts only deictically in ...
a. Top, base
b. Sides, base
c. Front, back
d. Back, base
e. Top, back
UNIT 4 – VERBS AND SITUATIONS
1. The causative sentence of ‘his father prevented him from going outside’ has an entailment of …
a. He goes outside
b. He is not going outside
c. He didn’t go outside
d. He doesn’t go outside
2. An intransitive verb which requires a subject that is consciously responsible for what happen is called …
a. Unergative
b. Unaccusative
c. Resitutive
d. Transitive
3. These are the example of unaccusative, EXCEPT …
a. His uncle died last morning because of heart attack
b. The bank’s interest rate dropped
c. The kite flew highly
d. My brother read a science book
4. ‘I am thinking of you’ is the example of …
a. Achievement
b. State
c. Activity
d. Accomplishment
5. One of situation types which has only interruptability (stop) is …
a. Achievement
b. State
c. Activity
d. Accomplishment
UNIT 6 – TENSE AND ASPECT
1. Grammatical signals regarding the sender’s notions of how an event is distributed in time is called …
a. Tense
b. Aspect
c. Adverbial
d. Grammar
2. The example of sentence which mark futurity is …
a. They go to the zoo
b. They are going to the zoo
c. They have been going to the zoo
d. They are going to go to the zoo
3. These are the compatibility of deictic adverbials with past time, EXCEPT …
a. Then
b. Last year
c. Tomorrow
d. Yesterday
4. The sentence ‘The doctor examined a patient’ entails …
a. The doctor has examined a patient
b. A patient examined the doctor
c. A patient was examined by the doctor
d. The doctor has been examined a patient
5. The sentence ‘the rain began’ entails …
a. A switch from not raining to raining occurred
b. We are in the aftermath of a switch from not raining to raining
c. There was a switch from raining to not raining
d. There is a switch from not raining to raining
Can you answer this test? how many numbers you cant answer them? hohoo...check the answers in "An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics" book by Patrick Griffiths. I wrote this test to accomplish Semantics and Pragmatics assignments at semester5.
i worked with my partner, Aviatri Mandasari. here we are...
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