Exercise Relations between sentences

The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS).
Involved participants: Anna, Katarzyna, Verena, Ulrike

Relations between 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?

contradiction	entailment	paraphrase
			My brother married a doctor. My male sibling joined in wedlock with a physician.
			Vera has only one dog. Vera’s dogs are called Bert and Oscar.
			My husband keeps forgetting things. Thank God I'm a widow.
			Jane ate a piece of chicken. Jane ate a piece of poultry.
			Vera is an only child. Olga is Vera’s sister.
			I saw Mary at the anniversary party. It was Mary that I saw at the anniversary party.
			Othello killed Desdemona. Desdemona died.

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