Meaning Relations

"Plants" is a taxonomy

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Which of the following groups are considered to be lexical fields?

• [soda, milk, water… coffee]

• [pen, pencil, paper… space]

• [t-shirt, pants, gloves… shorts]

• All of them

Add more synonyms that can be used in the same contex.

I.E. "glasses/spectacles"

Identify from the regular compound “school whiteboard” the head and the modifier:

• School is the head and whiteboard the modifier

• Whiteboard is the modifier and school is the head

• Both of them are heads

• This is not a regular compound

Use the prefix "ir-" or "un-" in order to create an antonym

Say which of the following sentences is true:

• Meronymies are actually the same as hyponymies, they have a different name because it’s just a subsystem of hyponymies.

• In meronymies, the parts that compose something do not necessarily have a function of their own.

• Meronymies are groups of words which come together to create a bigger concept/object

• Meronymies differ from hyponymies due to the fact that meronymies have more words

The possible hyperonym for the word "car" would be

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Possible hyponym for "dog"

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Is fire/ice a converse?

• Yes, because they look like it

• It is not, because one can exist without the other

• No, because they are antonyms

• It is, because they can't exist without each other

In the examples given of words’ oppositions, which is the correct explanation for the opposition of ‘buy/sell’?

• It is the same as in the case of ‘old/new’, it is the two different extremes on a scale.

• It is different, since sell and buy express the same but with reversed roles, and express opposite directions of transfer (the object being sold and bought)