Semantics – 20/5/2021

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MOCK TEST
Task 1. Decide is the following sentences are true (T) or false (F)
1. The same proposition can be expressed by different sentences?........................................
2. The same sentence can be realized by different utterances?..........................................
3. a man in “John attacked a man” is a referring expression?.....................................
4. a man in “John is a man” is a referring expression?.....................................
Task 2. Choose the correct answer
5. Which of the following expressions is proposition?
a. My sick cat that is lying on the armchair over there
b. John Lennon who was assassinated in 1980 by a madman
c. A man is walking along the street.
d. A lovely cat (not understood as an elliptical sentence)
6. Which of the following expressions of the sentence Osama bin Laden is hiding in Afghanistan is the
predicator?
a. Osama bin Laden
b. Afghanistan
c. hide
d. a and b
7. Which of the following is NOT a generic sentence?
a. The bear never eats the dead body.
b. The bear is the animal that typically hibernates during winter.
c. The bear in that cage cannot swim.
d. The bear likes honey of the bee.
8. Which of the following cases has the universe of discourse as the real world?
a. Mother to child: If you don’t behave properly, the dragon will come, boy.
b. Mother to child: Barking dog seldom bites, son.
c. Mother to child: Santa Claus will bring you a lot of toys.
d. Mother to child: Don’t follow that barking dog because he is a witchdoctor.
9. Which of the following most appropriately DOES NOT describe the reference?
a. Reference is the relationship between certain uttered expressions and certain things in a particular
context of the utterance.
b. Reference is the relationship between utterances and the world.
c. Reference is the relationship between certain uttered expressions and things in the world.
d. Reference is the relationship between the sense properties of a predicate
10. Which of the following is a correct statement about sense?
 Semantics – 20/5/2021
a. The sense of an expression is its relationship to semantically equivalent or semantically related
expressions in the same language.
b. If two expressions have the same reference, they always have the same sense.
c. All words in a language may have reference, but only some words may have sense.
d. The sense of an expression is a relationship between a particular object in the world and an
utterance.
11. Which of the following sentences indicating that the speaker is NOT in the hospital?
a. Please bring my son to the hospital for me.
b. Please come to the hospital with my son.
c. Please go to the hospital with me.
d. Please take me away from the hospital.
Task 3. In the following sentences, the words mean, meaning, and related ones are intended to say
about Sense or Reference.
12. Postpone has the same meaning as put off. …………………
13. When he said: ‘my brother’, he meant John. …………………
14. If you go to the disco, you will see who I mean …………………
15. What do you mean, you’ve been ‘fooling” me? …………………
Task 4. Fill in the blank with suitable word
16 “scientific” and “non-scientific” are ____________________________________ antonyms.
4. A paraphrase of “John had three giant dogs” is_________________________________________.

ANSWER KEY
1. T 2.T 3.T 4.F 5.C 6.C 7.C 8.B 9.D 10.A
11.C 12. SENSE 13. REFERENCE 14. REFERENCE 15. SENSE
16. BINARY 17. JOHN OWNED THREE BIG DOGS