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Department of Foreign Languages Student’s name: ______________________ Student’s code: _______________________ Class: B2K12

SEMANTICS PROGRESS TEST 1 Time allotted: 30 minutes

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Question Decide each of the following statements is True or False. 1. Meaningfulness is synonymous with informativeness. 2. A sentence can be true or false. 3. An utterance is tied to a particular time only. 4. The reference of an expression vary according to either the circumstances (time, place, etc.) in which the expression is used, or the topic of the conversation in which the expression is used. 5. The sense of an expression is often a thing or a person in the world. 6. Reference is a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick that object out. 7. Fred in ‘There’s no Fred at this address’ is a referring expression. 8. The phrase the President of the United States used in a conversation about American politics in 2007 have the same referent as the expression the Leader of the Republican Party in the same conversation. 9. An equative sentence is one which is used to assert the identity of the referents of two referring expressions. 10. Cairo is a large city is not an equative sentence. 11. A feature of many equative sentences is that the order of the two referring expressions can be reversed without loss of acceptability. 12. Detroit is not the largest city in the USA is an equative sentence. 13. The following words which can be referring expressions (in normal everyday English): John, below, Venus, swims, round, beautiful, under, went. 14. The PREDICATOR of a simple declarative sentence is a part of any referring expressions in a sentence. 15. The predicators in sentences can be of various parts of speech. 16. The semantic analysis of simple declarative sentences reveals two major semantic roles played by different subparts of the sentence: the role of predicates and the role(s) of argument(s). 17. The word bank has (at least) two senses. 18. The predicate male function as a predicator in the sentence The male gorilla at the zoo had a nasty accident yesterday. 19. The DEGREE of a predicate is a number indicating the number of arguments it is normally understood to have in simple sentences. 20. All verbs are two-place predicates.

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Question Decide each of the following statements is True or False. 1. Meaningfulness is synonymous with informativeness. TRUE 2. A sentence can be true or false. TRUE 3. An utterance is tied to a particular time only. FALSE 4. The reference of an expression vary according to either the circumstances (time, place, etc.) in which the expression is used, or the topic of the conversation in which the expression is used. FALSE 5. The sense of an expression is often a thing or a person in the world. FALSE 6. Reference is a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick that object out. TRUE 7. Fred in ‘There’s no Fred at this address’ is a referring expression. FALSE 8. The phrase the President of the United States used in a conversation about American politics in 2007 have the same referent as the expression the Leader of the Republican Party in the same conversation. TRUE 9. An equative sentence is one which is used to assert the identity of the referents of two referring expressions. TRUE 10. Cairo is a large city is not an equative sentence. TRUE 11. A feature of many equative sentences is that the order of the two referring expressions can be reversed without loss of acceptability. TRUE 12. Detroit is not the largest city in the USA is an equative sentence. FALSE 13. The following words which can be referring expressions (in normal everyday English): John, below, Venus, swims, round, beautiful, under, went. FALSE 14. The PREDICATOR of a simple declarative sentence is a part of any referring expressions in a sentence. FALSE 15. The predicators in sentences can be of various parts of speech. TRUE 16. The semantic analysis of simple declarative sentences reveals two major semantic roles played by different subparts of the sentence: the role of predicates and the role(s) of argument(s). FALSE 17. The word bank has (at least) two senses. TRUE 18. The predicate male function as a predicator in the sentence The male gorilla at the zoo had a nasty accident yesterday. FALSE 19. The DEGREE of a predicate is a number indicating the number of arguments it is normally understood to have in simple sentences. TRUE 20. All verbs are two-place predicates. FALSE

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