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Quiz 2 - Semantics (November)

This document contains a quiz on semantics with 50 multiple choice and true/false questions. The questions cover topics such as predicators, sentence types (analytic, synthetic, contradictory), sense relations (synonymy, hyponymy, polysemy), arguments, referents, deictic words, and sentence structure including equative, complex, compound and ambiguous sentences.

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Quiz 2 - Semantics (November)

This document contains a quiz on semantics with 50 multiple choice and true/false questions. The questions cover topics such as predicators, sentence types (analytic, synthetic, contradictory), sense relations (synonymy, hyponymy, polysemy), arguments, referents, deictic words, and sentence structure including equative, complex, compound and ambiguous sentences.

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QUIZ 2 – SEMANTICS

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS


1. The predicator in “These tomatoes are ripe” is …………
A. These B. tomatoes C. ripe
2. The predicator in “David stole Alice’s car” is ………… .
A. Stole B. David C. Alice’s car
3. “Shoes are made of leather” is a(n) …………. sentence.
A. Contradictory B. analytic C. synthetic
4. “Marine mammals live in water” is a(n) …………. sentence.
A. Analytic B. contradictory C. synthetic
5. “Apes are mammals, but they are not primates” is a(n) …………. sentence.
A. Analytic B. contradictory C. synthetic
6. COKE1 in “Do you want a Coke1?” and COKE2 in “He may need a coke2 to relieve the pain” have
the sense relation of ………….. .
A. Synonymy B. hyponymy C. polysemy
7. BED1 in “The child’s sleeping on his bed1” and BED2 in “Don’t forget to water that flower bed2”
have the sense relation of ………….. .
A. Hyponymy B. synonymy C. polysemy
8. A hyponym of PARENT is ………….. .
A. Mother B. grandmother C. daughter
9. A hyponym of GEM is ………… .
A. Gold B. ruby C. silver
10. A superordinate term for PICK, HOE, TROWEL, SPADE is …………. .
A. harvesting B. gardening tools C. cleaning equipment
11. A superordinate term for SEAL, WHALE, OTTER, RABBIT is …………. .
A. Mammal B. amphibian C. land animals
12. SAME and DIFFERENT in “They went to the same school, not different ones” are ……… .
A. Gradable antonyms B. binary antonyms C. converses
13. EMPLOYER and EMPLOYEE in “Joe is my employer, not employee” are ………
A. Gradable antonyms B. converses C. binary antonyms
14. TALLER and SHORTER in “This man is taller/shorter than my brother” are ……… .
A. Gradable antonyms B. converses C. binary antonyms
15. GUITAR and VIOLIN in “I need a new guitar/ violin” are in …………… .
A. Hyponyms of instrument B. polysemous C. antonymous
16. INVALUABLE and PRICELESS in “This is my invaluable / priceless collection of antiques” are
…………. words.
A. Antonymous B. synonymous C. polysemous
17. Which word in the sentence “Ann took a book from the shelf” is deictic?
A. Ann B. took C. from
18. Which words in the sentence “What are you doing here?” are deictic?
A. What, doing B. are, going C. you. Here
19. Which of the following expressions in ‘We will go to the campus tomorrow’. is the predicator?
A. We B. go C. tomorrow

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20. Which sentence is anomalous?
A. Every student is present, and no one is absent.
B. She swore she would make him eat his words.
C. I don’t like any fish at all, but I like tuna and cod.
21. Which of the following is NOT a generic sentence?
A. Jess thinks that her dog is very empathetic.
B. Unlike the lion, the tiger prefers to live alone.
C. This bird is an unusual winter visitor to Britain.
22. Which of the following describes the relation between (a) Mary did not buy a house. and (b) Mary did
not buy a building?
A. (b) and (a) are paraphrases.
B. (b) entails (a)
C. (a) and (b) are contradictories
23. Which of the following pairs are not gradable antonyms?
A. STUPID-INTELLIGENT
B. ABUNDANT-SCARCE
C. EXTERIOR-INTERIOR
24. ‘Mary read the book’ and ‘The book was read by Mary’ are …………
A. Antonyms B. synonyms C. paraphrases
25. …………………. is usually tied to a particular time and place.
A. Utterance B. sentence C. referent
26. In ‘Yesterday morning the father took his children to the zoo’ there are ……………… arguments.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 1
27. ‘Annie bumped into a man with an umbrella’. This is a(n) ………………… sentence.
A. Contradictory B. analytic C. ambiguous
28. ‘There's no flower more beautiful than a rose’. The sense relation of the two underlined is ……..
A. Synonymy B. hyponymy C. antonymy
29. Which pair of words does NOT have a hyponymic relationship between a superordinate and a
hyponym?
A. FLOWER-TULIP B. HUMAN-TURTLE C. HAND-FINGER
30. The sense relation between ‘mistake’ and ‘error’ is …………. .
A. Synonymy B. antonymy C. polysemy
31. ‘A crocodile is a reptile.’ In terms of sense relation, ‘crocodile’ is a …………….
A. Hyponym B. superordinate term C. synonym of reptile
32. ‘The bag is not new. Actually, it’s old.’ The two underlined are ……………. .
A. Converses B. gradable antonyms C. binary antonyms
33. ‘The UK’ is a ……………………. .
A. variable referent B. constant referent C. co-referent
34. ‘The bike is easy to fix.’ and ‘It’s easy to fix the bike.’ express ……………………….
A. The same proposition B. different propositions C. different meanings
35. The words ‘HUNGRY, BETWEEN, EAT’ can be …………………. in sentences.
A. Predicates B. referents C. arguments
36. CUP MUG TUMBLER can be the hyponyms of ……………. .
A. Bowl B. bucket C. container

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37. ‘My dad is a spinster’. The sentence is …………………………….. in terms of sense.
A. Anomalous B. contradictory C. analytic
38. The sentence “I like him as well as you” is ……………… .
A. Ambiguous B. analytic C. synthetic
39. “I’m glad I’m a student and so is Harry” is a/an ……………….. sentence.
A. Complex B. compound C. ambiguous
40. SHAKESPEARE in ‘We have read Shakespeare’ is …………… .
A. Referent B. abstract referent C. argument
TRUE or FALSE?
41. ‘Jimmy is a morpheme’ is a contradiction.
42. ‘A rose is a flower’. It is an equative sentence.
43. Give in “Jack gave Jane a bunch of roses” is a two-place predicate.
44. An English sentence is sometimes meaningful but not informative.
45. ‘The cat chased the rat fiercely.’ There are two arguments in the sentence.
46. All equative sentences can be reversible.
47. The sentence “They are hunting dogs” is ambiguous.
48. If ‘John killed Bill’ is true, it is unnecessary that ‘Bill is dead’.
49. ‘The United Nations’ can be used as a variable referent.
50. An utterance can be only single words, not a sentence.

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