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Presupposition and Entailment Quiz

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Presupposition and Entailment Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The type of presupposition in the sentence:

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

True

False

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

…… 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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Identify the presupposition type in the sentence:

“What do you think about my new dress?”

Non-factive presupposition

Lexical presipposition

Structural presupposition

Existential presupposition

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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