SAMPLE END COURSE TEST ON SEMANTICS 2019

1. Which of the following statements is false?

Utterance
Sentence
Proposition

2. The subject in a generic sentence is not ………... because it does not refer to any
particular individual in the world.

3. Hyponymy is the sense relation between two predicates in such a way that the
meaning of
one predicate is ……………….

4. Which of the following is the case of this example: .... meant ‘....’
A. degradation of meaning
B. elevation of meaning
C. broadening of meaning
D. narrowing of meaning
5. Which of the following most appropriately DOES NOT describe the reference?

6. Which of the following is a correct statement about sense?

7. (A,B,C,D) is ...........................
A. A reference B. A predicator
C. A predicate D. The degree of predicate

8. Which of the following is the reference in one expression to the same

referent in another expression?
A. co-reference B. constant reference
C. referring expression D. variable reference

9. Which of the following sentences doesn’t have the same propositional

content as the others?
10. Which one of the following pairs of predicates is converses antonyms?

11. Which word or phrase in the sentence .............................. is most likely to cause
ambiguity?
12. Which of the following pairs are paraphrases of each other?

13. Which of the following is defined as “any stretch of talk, by one person,
before and after Which there is silen e on the art of that person”.
a) utterance
b) sentence
c) proposition
d) reference

14. Which one of the following sentences is most likely to be ambiguous?

15. Which of the following is lexically ambiguous?

16 . ……………. antonyms contain a large range of antonyms having the same meaning.
a) binary
b) converses
c) multiple incompatibles d) gradual/gradable

17. Bracelet, ring, necklace are the hyponyms of the superordinate

a) gold b) diamond
c) jewellery d) craftwork

18. Which of the following is referentially ambiguous?

19. Sentence (A) ………………….. is (a,b,c,d) sentence (B) ...........................

a) presupposes b)
paraphrases
c) contradicts d)
entails

20. Which is the best entailment of the following sentence:

Not all countries have coastline.
21. In which of the following cases, A doesn’t entail B?
22. The predicator ............ used in the sentence .......................................... is an
example of:
a) three-place predicate b) one-place predicate
c) two-place predicate d) either two or three-place predicate
23. Which of the bold words are examples of polysemy?
24. Which of the following is NOT entailed from the sentence
...........................................?

25. The subject in a generic sentence is not ……….because it does not refer to any
particular individual in the
world.
a) a referring expression b) a referent
c) a sense property d) a sense relation
26. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
Paraphrases
Contradictions
Entailments
Presuppositions

27. “Bachelors are MARRIED” is an example of

a) simplicity b) analyticity
c) syntheticity d) contradiction
28. Which one as indicated in the following is NOT used as a referring expression?

29. In which of the following cases, NOT all the underlined words are deitic?

30. What type of co-reference is used in the sentence ........................................

.........................?.
a) zero anaphora b) anaphora

c) cataphora d) none of the above

31. Which of the following is NOT contradictory?

32. Which of the following is absolutely unacceptable?

33. The sentence ................................. could be identified as:

a) contradictory b) either analytic or synthetic
c) analytical d) synthetic

34. Of what degree is the predicate between?

a) one b) two c) three d) four
35. Which is the best presupposition of the following sentence:

36. What is the semantic relationship between the two underlined words in the
following examples: ........................................... ....................................................
a) homonymy b) synonymy c) polysemy d) hyponymy
37. Which of the following is a predicate?

38. What is the sense relation between the words elegant and gorgeous?
a) Stylistic synonym b) Phraseological
synonym c) Dialectal synonym d)
Semantic synonym
39. What is the sense relation between the two sentences (1) & (2)?
Sentence 1:...............................................
Sentence 2: ............................................
a) Presupposition b) Contradiction c) Paraphrase d)
Entailment

40. What is the sense relation between the two sentences: ............................ and
............................?
a) Presupposition b) Paraphrase c) Contradiction d) Entailment