Presupposition and Entailment

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Presupposition and Entailment

Presupposition and Entailment

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7 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

How many types of presupposition are there?

3

5

6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

I want more milk for my tea!

I hate tea with milk.

I am having tea.

Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.

I do not like my tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

‘Non-factive presupposition is an assumption that something is true’

TRUE

FALSE

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Alex's wife has called.

Alex is married.

Alex is male.

Alex's wife has called the speaker.

There exists a married woman.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"If I would not have eaten so much over the holidays ,I would still fit my favorite jeans" . Determine type of presupposition in this sentence

structural

counterfactual

lexical

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Is the sentence (2) a presupposition or an entailment of the sentence (1) ?

(1): Where is the man with the megaphone?

(2): There is a man with a megaphone.

presupposition

entailment

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The sentences in (1) presuppose the sentence (2). Determine the type of presupposition.

(1): It was in the opera that I have lost my glasses.

(2): I have lost my glasses somewhere.

existential

factive

lexical

structural

non-factive