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# Someone is having tea.
# Someone is having tea.
# Someone already has put milk in his/her tea.
# Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.
# This person doesn't like his/her tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.
# This person doesn't like his/her tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.
# He/She prefers more milk in his/her tea.
# He/She prefers more milk in his/her tea.<hr />
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Latest revision as of 15:48, 18 March 2013

The utterance "I want more milk for my tea!" has the following presuppostions:

  1. Someone is having tea.
  2. Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.
  3. This person doesn't like his/her tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.
  4. He/She prefers more milk in his/her tea.

Back to the NMTS-Group3.