SP - Session 7

Multiple Choice

what is the hyponymy of utensil?

• book

• knife

• fan

• chair

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"Tubers" is a hyponym of:

• Potatoes

• Carrots

• Roots

• Vegetables

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Which of the following is an example of hyponymy?

• furniture- sofa

• school-patients

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What is the definition of HYPHONYMY?

• A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word.

• A word of more specific meaning than a general or superordinate term applicable to it.

• A word opposite in meaning to another.

• Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.

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a set of words that denotes a subcategory of a more general class

• hyponymy

• meronymy

• polysemy

• clines

Open Ended

In the picture above, which one is a hyponym?

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Give the Hypernym of the following

SHIRT

DRESS

JACKET

• FRUITS

• CLOTHES

• FURNITURE

Multiple Select

What are the co-hyponyms of superordinate of insects?

• Butterfly

• Bug

• Flowers

• Trees

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Add one more hyponym of the following list:

coffee, milk, tea, ______.

• Apple Juice

• Banana

• Cake

• Rice

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'Silver, Iron, Copper, Gold and Nickel' are hyponymns of which word?

• Steel

• Metal

• Mineral

• Chemistry

Multiple Choice

What is Pragmatics?

• It is the study of the use of natural language in communication.

• It refers to word order and depends on lexical categories (parts of speech).

• It is the study of the use of natural language in communication.

• All of the above

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What is the difference between Semantics and Pragmatics?

• Semantics determine the literal meaning of the text while Pragmatics looks the context of the language.

• Semantics looks the context of the language while Pragmatics determine the literal meaning of the text .

• Semantics analyzes words according to their affixes and the words that follow or precede them Pragmatics determine the literal meaning of the text .

• Semantics and Pragmatics have no difference at all.

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What is focused on what happens beyond saying?

• Conversational implicatures

• Conventional implicatures

• Near-side Pragmatics

• Far-side Pragmatics 

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Which of the following is NOT considered as Pragmatics according to Jenny Thomas?

• It is the negotiation of meaning between speaker and listener.

• It is the context of the utterance.

• It is the meaning potential of an utterance.

• None of the above

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What will happen if there will be no Pragmatics?

• There would be very little understanding of intention and meaning.

• A language always need to have a Pragmatics, otherwise, it will be meaningless.

• It will not explain why the sentence may have this meaning and not that one.

• Pragmatics acquire a direct mapping between printed words and their meanings which is vital in Language.

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The science of language use, the study of context-dependent meaning, and the study of speaker intended meaning.

• Semantics

• Linguistics

• Pragmatics

• Discourse Analysis

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"I am here, you are there; no wonder we can't see eye to eye".

The underlined words are an instance of...

• Deixis

• Anaphora

• Pronouns

• Ellipsis

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News reporter from Ha Tinh, Viet Nam reports of the following:

Ha Tinh has witnessed a flood as a result of the heavy rain.

Ha Tinh refers to?

• Person Deixis

• Temporal Deixis

• Spatial Deixis

• None of them

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"Whenever I see Kristen, she wears that same coat."

She and that refers to?

• Temporal and Person Deixis

• Person and Spatial Deixis

• Temporal and Spatial Deixis

• Person Deixis

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I’ll put it here later, ok?”

I, here and later refer to?

• Temporal Deixis

• Person Deixis

• Spatial Deixis

• All of them

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“here”, “there”, “now”, and “then” are Spacial Deixis.

• true

• false

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“Come home!” is used to mark movement towards the speaker.

• true

• false

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Which is temporal

deictic expressions?

• today

• there

• you, I

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What is the potential ambiguity concerning the pronoun 'we'?

• There is an exclusive 'we' => speaker plus others, excluding the

  addressee

• An inclusive 'we' => speaker and addressee involved.

• Both

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...... is a linguistic part of the environment in which a referring expression is used.

• Physical context

• Co-text

• Referent

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According to Yule, reference is an act in which a speaker, or writer, uses linguistic forms to enable a listener, or reader, to identify something.

• true

• false

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Attributive use is regarding to a specific person who is referred to, although his/her name or some other description is not used.

• true

• false

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The reference appears to work between all members of a community who share an unfamiliar language and culture.

• true

• false

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In terms of anaphoric reference, the second or subsequent expression is the anaphor. What is the anaphor in the example below?

In conclusion, we have no right to decide whether or not wild animals should exist, and I believe that we should do everything we can to protect them.

• wild animals

• them

• we

• everything

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Learning anaphoric reference can avoid ambiguity. Which word(s) should we use to replace the word "them" in the example below?

Some famous people usually write about life lessons on Facebook, so people who follow them can learn from them.

• those lessons

• Facebook

• famous people

• life lessons

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What are the correct subcategories of social deixis?

• Relational and Actual deixis

• Relational and Absolute deixis

• Formal and Casual dexis

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How many types of deixis were presented in the findings of the study "The functions of deixis used by EFL teacher in classroom interaction"

• 4 ( social deixis, temporal deixis, spatial deixis, and person deixis)

• 3 (temporal deixis, spatial deixis, and person deixis)

• 5 (social deixis, temporal deixis, spatial deixis, discourse, and person deixis)

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Identify the deixis in the following sentence: 'I will meet you here tomorrow.'

• yesterday

• I, you, here, tomorrow

• there

• us

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Analyze the context of deixis in this sentence: 'That was the best day of my life.' What does 'that' refer to?

• A day that was particularly bad for the speaker.

• A random day in the past without significance.

• A specific day that the speaker considers the best in their life.

• The speaker's birthday.

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Differentiate between person deixis and time deixis with examples.

• Person deixis is about actions (e.g., 'run', 'jump')

• Person deixis involves participants in discourse (e.g., 'I', 'you'), while time deixis involves temporal references (e.g., 'now', 'later').

• Time deixis includes participants in discourse (e.g., 'we', 'they')

• Person deixis refers to locations in discourse (e.g., 'here', 'there')

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Create a sentence using spatial deixis and explain its context.

• The cat is under the bed in the corner.

• She walked to the store down the street.

• The painting is hanging on the wall behind the couch.

• The book is on the table next to the window.

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In the sentence 'She is going to the store,' identify the deixis and discuss its implications.

• The deixis in the sentence is 'she' and 'going to'

• The deixis in the sentence is 'going' and 'to'.

• The deixis in the sentence is 'store' and 'is'.

• The deixis in the sentence is 'she' and 'the store.'

Fill in the Blank

Pragmatics is the study of _____

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Rachel was on her way to volunteer at the animal shelter.  She was very excited!  She really liked dogs.  Her brother was allergic to dogs, however, so she was rarely around them.  Rachel had a lot of fun playing with the puppies, but after her shift, itchy bumps appeared on her arms.
It is likely that:

• Mosquitoes bit Rachel
• Rachel is allergic to dogs, too
• Rachel fell in poison ivy
• Rachel was already sick

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Tim looked out the window. The house looked so lonely. Tim's father put the last suitcase in the trunk and started up the car. Thor, his dog, put his head on Tim's lap, like he understood how  Tim was feeling. "It's okay Thor," he said, "Dad says we will like California." What is happening?

• Tim is sad because his dog doesn't have a house to live in.
• Tim is taking a trip to visit peolpe he doesn't know.
• Tim is taking Thor to live with his grandmother.
• Tim is moving to California with his family.

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Joseph and Caitlin were choosing the players for their teams. It was Caitlin's turn to choose, and only Jason was left. Caitlin said, "Jason."

We can infer that…

• Jason was the best player.
• Caitlin wanted Jason on her team.
• Jason was not a very good player.
• Caitlin had a hard time choosing a team member.

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The scout leader looked at the sky and muttered something under his breath. Then he looked at the map. "Let's get moving." He called to the group of tired boys. "The faster the better." Why do you think the scout leader started rushing the boys?

• They were going to be late for dinner

• They were going to miss their ride that was waiting for them

• It was about to rain

• The sun was about to cause it to be too hot for them to stay out much longer

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It was 8:30 on Thursday night. Emily stared at the large, empty poster board on her bed. Then she looked at the stack of books about Abraham Lincoln on her desk. Emily began to cry. Why do you think Emily was crying?

• She wanted a different color poster

• It was late and she had a lot of schoolwork to complete before she could end her night

• She did not want to go to sleep

• She wanted a book about George Washington instead

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Ana and Sophie sat in their chairs staring straight ahead for nearly two hours. They did not talk or hardly even move, but they were not bored at all. Where were Ana and Sophie?

• At the movies

• In class

• At church

• At a football game

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What is an inference?

•  An inference is something that you think is true based on information that you have.
• An inference is directly written in the text