Grammar Test Format Format for Semantics Test Truong Van Anh SGU FOCI • Speaker meaning / Sentence meaning • Referent, reference and sense • Variable reference, constant reference and co reference • U[.]
Format for Semantics Test Truong Van Anh SGU • • • • • • • FOCI Speaker meaning / Sentence meaning Referent, reference and sense Variable reference, constant reference and coreference Utterance, sentence, proposition Referring expressions Equative sentence, Generic sentence Predicate, degree of predicate, predicators • Stereotype, prototype • Sense properties: analytic, synthetic and contradictory sentences • Sense relations: synonymy, paraphrase, hyponymy, entailment (one-way, two-way), antonymy, ambiguity, homonymy, polysemy • Metaphor, metonymy, simile, personification, idiom Question 1: Choose the semantics terms in the box that best fit the definitions in the following sentences Write down your answers in the chart below Notice that there are more words in the box than needed (2.0 marks) 10 Words Question 2: Determine whether these statements are true or false by circling T (true) or F (false) (2.0 marks) 10 sentences Question 3: Provide two paraphrases for each of the following ambiguous sentences (2.0 marks) sentences Question 4: Questions about Sense relations (synonymy, paraphrase, hyponymy, entailment (one-way, two-way), antonymy, homonymy, polysemy) (2.0 marks) 10 sentences Question 5: Questions about Equative sentence, Generic sentence; analytic, synthetic and contradictory sentences (2.0 marks) 10 sentences Good luck!