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    SEMANTICS TEST

    Part 1: Indicate the relationship between the following words

    Synonym (S), Binary antonym (B), Gradable antonym,(G), Relation antonym( R),
    Homonymy , Homophony, Homography or Hyponymy. ( 10m)

    1.Feeble/powerful

    2.He will ask his family doctor to heal his injured heel

    3.Larger/ smaller

    4.Flower/ petal

    5.Accidental/ intentional

    6.Intelligent/smart

    7.Please close the door and sit close to me

    8.Courteous/ rude

    9.The soldier received a wound in the battle and had a cloth wound around his
    ankle

    10.Dangerous/ safe

    Part 2:

    Decide whether these sentences are Analytic (A), Contradiction(C) , or Synthetic


    (S) (10m)

    1.Boys tend to be more troublesome than girls

    2.Two halves make up a whole

    3.My neighbor’s child is an adult

    4.Witches are wicked

    5.He is simultaneously a man and not a human being

    Part 3 What is the relationship between sentence (A) and (B) (10m)
    1.“I detest semantics” (A) and “ I am not fond of semantics” (B)

    2.“The laser has a wide variety of applications” (A) and “ As we have seen, the use
    of laser is numerous”

    3.“ This door handle is brass” (A) and “ This door handle is plastic” (B)

    4.“ I gave all my pens” (A) and “ I gave all my writing tools” (B)

    5.“All dogs are purple.” (A) and “ My dog is gray” (B)

    Part 4 Mark each of the following sentences true (T) or false (F) (10m)

    True False

    10

    1 A sentence is tied to a particular time and place

    2 A proposition can be ambiguous

    3 Analicity is a relation between sentences

    4 The meaning of the hyponym is included in the meaning of the hypernym


    5 “She took an umbrella” entails “ She stole an umbrella”

    6 Chalk and Cheese are binary antonym

    7 The meaning of an utterance depends on the situation in which it is uttered

    8 Two sentences are paraphrased if and only if they entail each other

    9 Literal meaning is the meaning outside context

    10 Semantics is concerned with contextual meaning

    Part 5: Fill in each blank with One or Two Words (20m)

    1.The ………….. of an expression is its relationship to semantically equivalent

    2.“ I don’t seem to have a chair” is ………………………

    3.The word having different but related meaning is ……………………..

    4.The sentence that is necessarily true is the ………………………

    5.……………..is a relationship between uttered expressions and things in the


    world

    6.The…………… is the sentence which violates the semantics rule

    7.The hypernym for the lexical field” cup, glass, jugs” is ………………….

    8.“Stationery” is a hyponym of ……………..

    9.“ You, today, Wednesday” are called…………..

    10. The ……………… depends on virtue of personal and cultural associations

    Part 6: What semantics features do these words in each group share? (10m)

    1.Ice, cream, avocado, soup, corn, beef

    2.Tigress, doe, girl, actress, debutante


    3.Uncle, widow, doctor, seamstress, astronaut

    4.Temple, road, boat, school, village

    5.Love, mean, fear, honesty, brave

    Part 7: Choose the best answer to each question (10m)

    1.The expression “ The MeKong river” has

    a.Variable reference

    b.Constant reference

    c.Co-reference

    d.None of the above

    2.The sentence” Is he really that kind?” is

    a.Unambiguous sentence

    b.Lexically ambiguous

    c.Structurally ambiguous

    d.Both structurally and lexical ambiguous

    3.Which of the following is a generic sentence

    a.Gentlemen prefer blondes

    b.A wasp just stung me on the neck

    c.That whale over there is a mammal

    d.Mary saw a rat

    4.Which of the following is true about a pair of binary antonyms

    a.They can be modified by adverb of degree

    b.They are mutually exclusive

    c.They exhaust all possibilities along some scale


    d.They can be used in question

    5.Which of the following is a pair of gradable antonym

    a.Sink-float

    b.Urban- rural

    c.Narrow- wide

    d.Import- export

    6.Which of the following is an equative sentence

    a.That girl over there is my student

    b.Cairo is the large city

    c.John is a genius

    d.My dog bit the postman

    7.The sentence “ The workers threatened to walk ” is

    a.a synthetic sentence

    b.a generic sentence

    c.a polysemous sentence

    d.an unambiguous sentence

    8.The word “ current”(e.g: up to date vs flow of water) is a case of:

    a. synonymy

    b.hyponymy

    c.homonymy

    d.homophony

    9.Which of the following is a pair of incompatibility

    a.flour/ flower
    b.ravage/ destroy

    c.hammer/ tool

    d.breakfast/ supper

    10.Which of the following is not ambiguous

    a.Mary can’t bear children

    b.They can fish

    c.I saw her duck

    d.I am very cross with you

    Part 8: Draw the chart to show the relationship between a superordinate and the
    hyponym ( 10 m)

    1. Building – villa
    2. Color- lavender
    3. Animal- quail
    4. Living thing- rose
    5. Vehicle- convertible

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