Department of Foreign Languages

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SEMANTICS
Student’s code: _______________________ PROGRESS TEST 1
Class: B2K12 Time allotted: 30 minutes
YOUR ANSWER:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Question
Decide each of the following statements is True or False.
1. Meaningfulness is synonymous with informativeness.
2. A sentence can be true or false.
3. An utterance is tied to a particular time only.
4. The reference of an expression vary according to either the circumstances (time, place, etc.) in which the
expression is used, or the topic of the conversation in which the expression is used.
5. The sense of an expression is often a thing or a person in the world.
6. Reference is a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an
utterance to pick that object out.
7. Fred in ‘There’s no Fred at this address’ is a referring expression.
8. The phrase the President of the United States used in a conversation about American politics in 2007 have
the same referent as the expression the Leader of the Republican Party in the same conversation.
9. An equative sentence is one which is used to assert the identity of the referents of two referring
expressions.
10. Cairo is a large city is not an equative sentence.
11. A feature of many equative sentences is that the order of the two referring expressions can be reversed
without loss of acceptability.
12. Detroit is not the largest city in the USA is an equative sentence.
13. The following words which can be referring expressions (in normal everyday English): John, below, Venus,
swims, round, beautiful, under, went.
14. The PREDICATOR of a simple declarative sentence is a part of any referring expressions in a sentence.
15. The predicators in sentences can be of various parts of speech.
16. The semantic analysis of simple declarative sentences reveals two major semantic roles played by
different subparts of the sentence: the role of predicates and the role(s) of argument(s).
17. The word bank has (at least) two senses.
18. The predicate male function as a predicator in the sentence The male gorilla at the zoo had a nasty
accident yesterday.
19. The DEGREE of a predicate is a number indicating the number of arguments it is normally understood to
have in simple sentences.
20. All verbs are two-place predicates.

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Semantics-B2K12-ProgressTest 1
YOUR ANSWER:

1. TRUE 2. TRUE 3. FALSE 4. FALSE 5. FALSE

6. TRUE 7. FALSE 8. TRUE 9. TRUE 10. TRUE
11. TRUE 12. FALSE 13. FALSE 14. FALSE 15. TRUE
16. TRUE 17. TRUE 18. FALSE 19. TRUE 20. FALSE

Question
Decide each of the following statements is True or False.
1. Meaningfulness is synonymous with informativeness. TRUE
2. A sentence can be true or false. TRUE
3. An utterance is tied to a particular time only. FALSE
4. The reference of an expression vary according to either the circumstances (time, place, etc.) in which the
expression is used, or the topic of the conversation in which the expression is used. FALSE
5. The sense of an expression is often a thing or a person in the world. FALSE
6. Reference is a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an
utterance to pick that object out. TRUE
7. Fred in ‘There’s no Fred at this address’ is a referring expression. FALSE
8. The phrase the President of the United States used in a conversation about American politics in 2007 have
the same referent as the expression the Leader of the Republican Party in the same conversation. TRUE
9. An equative sentence is one which is used to assert the identity of the referents of two referring
expressions. TRUE
10. Cairo is a large city is not an equative sentence. TRUE
11. A feature of many equative sentences is that the order of the two referring expressions can be reversed
without loss of acceptability. TRUE
12. Detroit is not the largest city in the USA is an equative sentence. FALSE
13. The following words which can be referring expressions (in normal everyday English): John, below, Venus,
swims, round, beautiful, under, went. FALSE
14. The PREDICATOR of a simple declarative sentence is a part of any referring expressions in a sentence.
FALSE
15. The predicators in sentences can be of various parts of speech. TRUE
16. The semantic analysis of simple declarative sentences reveals two major semantic roles played by
different subparts of the sentence: the role of predicates and the role(s) of argument(s). FALSE
17. The word bank has (at least) two senses. TRUE
18. The predicate male function as a predicator in the sentence The male gorilla at the zoo had a nasty
accident yesterday. FALSE
19. The DEGREE of a predicate is a number indicating the number of arguments it is normally understood to
have in simple sentences. TRUE
20. All verbs are two-place predicates. FALSE

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