Decide whether this pair of antonyms are complementary, gradable, or relational: Parent - Offspring
Relational Antonym
Is the following pair converse?
Land lady - Tenant
No
Decide whether the following words with their different meanings are homonymy or polysemy?
“an instrument to open a clock” and “an answer sheet for a test”
Polysemy
Decide whether the following words with their different meanings are homonymy or polysemy?
“an instrument to open a clock” and “an answer sheet for a test”
Polysemy
I saw a boy entails I saw a person. True or False?
True
What are the relations between the following sentences? He can't stand smoking. and He detests smoking.
a. Lexical Paraphrase
b. Structural Paraphrase
a. Lexical Paraphrase
What are the relations between these sentences? I went to downtown to buy some stuff. and I went to the center to buy some stuff.
Lexical Paraphrase
Only by calling them every hour of the day ___ to get what I wanted.
Did i manage or I managed? (use inversion)
did I manage
Never __ heard such an appalling speech.
a. I have
b. Have I
b. Have I
My brother dislikes listening to Justin Bieber’s music.
My brother is avid for Justin Bieber's music.
Are they contradiction relation? If not, what is the relation between them?
Lexical Paraphrase
How many relations are there between sentences? What are they?
There are 3 relations: entailment, contradiction and paraphrase.
Sentence relation is the relation between the:
a. the uses of two sentences
b. the meanings of two sentences
b. the meanings of two sentences
Semantics is the study of ……
a. Language use
b. Language meaning
b. Language meaning
Pragmatics is the study of …….
a. Language meaning
b. Language use
b.Language use
Which is NOT of the 4 types of context?
a. Physical context
b. Situational context
c. Epistemic context
d. Social context
b. Situational context
