Date: ____________

Name: _________________

MINI-TEST 1
DURATION: 45 minutes
1. State whether the following statements are true or false.
Then write T for true statements and F for false ones. (2
marks)
a. _F_______Co-hyponyms are mutually exclusive.
b. __T______ A word or an expression must have sense in
order to be a referring expression.
c. ___T_____ Two sentences are paraphrases if and only if
they mutually entail each other.
d. ____T____ A proposition can be ambiguous.

2. What semantic feature(s) do the words in each group share?

a. widow, mother, aunt, cow, hen [+FEMALE]
b. blood, petrol, acid rain, coffee, sugar [MATERIAL/
THING]
c. table, rock, boat, rice, soup [+THING]
d. engineer, teacher, driver, girl, uncle [+HUMAN]
3. Identify the semantic properties of the following words:
a. actress =[+human], [+female], [+professional],
[+ working in the field of entertainment/ movies/ theatre]
b. soldier = [+human], [+female], [+working in the army]
4. What is the sense relation between each of the following
pairs of words? When it is antonymy, specify whether it is
binary, gradable or relational. (1 mark)
a. advance – retreat  gradable antonymy
b. get (v) obtain – get (v) buy polysemy
c. flower – petal hyponymy
d. narrow – wide gradable antonymy

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5. Identify possible words in each of the following sentences
that are homophones, homographs, or homonyms.
a. The man did not want to desert the dessert on the desert.
(1) (2) (3)
(1) & (2): homophones
(1) & (3): homographs

b. My parents usually park their car near the Green Park.

homonyms
6. For each of the following sentences, identify the figure of
speech used and interpret it. (1 mark)
a. We need somestrong bodies for our project.
- synecdoche
- “strong bodies” = strong people
b. How could she marry such a snake!
Human is an animal.
- metaphor
- “a snake” = a person/ husband who is very evil/ bad.

7. Decide whether each of the following sentences is analytic,

synthetic or contradictory?
a. ____A_______________: He is as old as himself.
b. _____C______________: My spinster friend is married.
c. ______S_____________: Bachelors cannot form lasting
relationships.
d. _______C____________: John killed Bill, who has just
phoned me.

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8. True or false

a.John cooked an egg entails John boiled an egg. F

b.John stole a car entails John took a car. T
c. Mary coloured all the square entails Mary coloured all
the rectangular. F
d. No one has led a perfect life entailsSomeone has led a
perfect life. F
e. I gave all my pens entails I gave all my writing tools.