Presupposition and Entailment Quiz

Identify the type of presupposition in this sentence:

"Your book is new"

• Existential presupposition

• Structural presupposition

• Counter - factual presupposition

• Factive presupposition

Answer explanation

We can presuppose that You exist and that you have a book.

Identify the type of presupposition in this utterance:

“ They wish they could go on vacation now ”

• Structural presupposition

• Counter - factual presupposition

• Factive presupposition

• Lexical presupposition

Answer explanation

They cannot go on vacation now

Factive presupposition is the assumption that something is true because of the presence of some verbs such as " know", "realize", and "glad" etc

• True

• False

The type of presupposition in the sentence:

“If I finish my homework, I will go shopping” is counter-factual presupposition.

• True

• False

…… is the meaning of some presupposition (as ‘part”) doesn’t survive to become the meaning of some complex sentence (as ‘whole’). 

• Referring expression

• Deitic projection

• Presupposition

• Projection problem

Identify the presupposition type in the sentence:

“What do you think about my new dress?”

• Non-factive presupposition

• Lexical presipposition

• Structural presupposition

• Existential presupposition

Identify the foreground entailment of the utterance:

“Maria puts three teddies on the TABLE”

• Maria puts three teddies somewhere.

• Someone puts three teddies on the table.

• Maria does something with the teddies.

• Maria put something on the table

Which type of presupposition could be found in: "Your dress is so beautiful."

• Structual presupposition

• Fative presupposition

• Existential presupposition

• Lexical presupposition

Which of the following sentences contains structural presupposition?

• I wasn’t aware that she was married.

• Why did Dusik get back to his hometown is a mystery

• We imagined that we were in London.

• The girl who is singing on the stage is my best friend.

What is a non-factive presupposition?

• This pen is new.

• I’m glad that it’s over

• It is not odd that Jack left early.

• They imagined that they were in Paris.