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	{This time, your task is a bit more based on your personal knowledge of semantics. You get 7 sentences~~, each part of a special kind of semantic relation~~. Can you ~~describe~~ the semantic relationship ~~expressed by each of~~ the ~~following~~ sentences?		{This time, your task is a bit more based on your personal knowledge of semantics. You get seven pairs of sentences. Can you determine the semantic relationship that holds between the sentences in the pairs?
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	{This time, your task is a bit more based on your personal knowledge of semantics. You get 8 sentences, each part of a special kind of semantic relation. Can you describe the semantic relationship expressed by each of the following sentences?		{This time, your task is a bit more based on your personal knowledge of semantics. You get 7 sentences, each part of a special kind of semantic relation. Can you describe the semantic relationship expressed by each of the following sentences?
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{This time, your task is a bit more based on your personal knowledge of semantics. You get 8 sentences, each part of a special kind of semantic relation. Can you describe the semantic relationship expressed by each of the following sentences?
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--+ My brother married a doctor. My male sibling joined in wedlock with a physician.
|| Easy one, right?
|| The last sentence contains all the information of the first one; you only have to translate it into colloquial English. I told you, that it wasn’t so complicated!
+-- Vera has only one dog. Vera’s dogs are called Bert and Oscar.
|| Great! This is contradiction.
+-- My husband keeps forgetting things. Thank God I'm a widow.
|| Did you know it?
Of course, one cannot be a widow and at the same time complain about your husband still forgetting things. As long as you're not stuck in time and believe your deceased hsuband to be still alive, these sentences contradict each other, right?
-+- Jane ate a piece of chicken. Jane ate a piece of poultry.
|| Found the answer?
|| Well, it wasn't that hard as you already had one example of entailment. Chicken is just a subcategory of poultry, therefore Jane does not have any chance to not eat poultry when she enjoys a nice piece of chicken. Absolute impossible!
+-- Vera is an only child. Olga is Vera’s sister.
|| Strike!
|| Another contradiction! You knew this before, right? Okay, let us summon it up: If you have a sister, you cannot be an only child.
--+ I saw Mary at the anniversary party. It was Mary that I saw at the anniversary party.
|| Another light question, don't you think?
|| The second sentence is the paraphrase of the first one. We just change the active sentence into the passive one!
-+- Othello killed Desdemona. Desdemona died.
|| What's your result?
|| For us, that's an entailment as the death of Desdemona is only an effect of Othello killing her. One sentence causes the other, correct?

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