TOPIC 1 GAME

Original sentence: Mary has found her cat.

- Presupposition: Mary has a cat.

- Entailment: Mary’s cat is no longer missing.

The answer is True or False?

• True

• False

• Original sentence: James managed to solve the problem.

• => James tried to solve the problem.

This sentence is E or P

• Entailment

• Presupposition

Negation does not change the relationship of ___________

• Entailment

• Presupposition

• Câu gốc: Mark finally quit his job at the bank.

• Mark no longer works at the bank.

This sentence is E or P

• Entailment

• Presupposition

A _______________ is background information that a sentence assumes to be true for the sentence to make sense. It remains true even when the sentence is negated.

• Entailment

• Presupposition

• Original sentence: The man is standing next to the window.

• The window is next to the man.

This sentence is E or P.

• Entailment

• Presupposition

How can we test whether the relation between any two given sentences is Entailment or Presupposition?

• Positive testing

• Pragmatic test

• Depend on student's will

• Negation test

• Original sentence: John borrowed Hanna’s pencil.

• Hanna has pencil. 

This sentence is E or P

• Entailment

• Presupposition

• Original sentence: Susan discovered that her husband was having an affair.  

• Her husband was having an affair.

• This sentence is E or P

• Entailment

• Presupposition

• Original sentence: Sarah seemed really happy about her promotion.

• Sarah got a promotion

• This sentence is E or P 

• Entailment

• Presupposition