WorksheetsMeaning relations between sentences.
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
An entailment is:
A phrase that is assumed not to be true.
A case prior to an utterance.
A relationship between 2 or more presupposition.
A phrase that logically follows from the utterance.
Entailments depend on sentence meaning, not the context in which the sentence is used.
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What is types of truth condition?
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The relation of A and B:
A) She is single.
B) She is married.
Entailment
Paraphrase
Contradiction
Presupposition
The relation of A and B:
A) Jim lives in Manchester.
B) Jim lives in England.
Entailment
Paraphrase
Contradiction
Presupposition
What is definition of paraphrase?
Relationships in a language.
Provide another sentence that has virtually the same meaning.
The same proposition as another sentence is a paraphrase of that sentence.
One statement has the same meaning as another.
The relation of A and B:
A) Mary loves flowers
B) Mary loves roses
Presupposition
Contradiction
Paraphrase
Entailment
The relation of A and B:
A) The buyer sent the check to me.
B) The buyer sent me the check.
Presupposition
Contradiction
Paraphrase
Entailment
A contradiction is:
One statement has the same meaning as another.
A sentence has no meaning in the everyday world.
A phrase that logically follows from the utterance.
If one statement is true the other must be false.
The contradiction is based on antonymy between lexical items.
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