Exercise Presupposition or entailment: Difference between revisions

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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: Katharina, Caterina, Daniela, Eva

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+===Presupposition or entailment?===
+<quiz display=simple>
+{You will now have to find out whether the sentence is a presupposition or an entailment?
+|type="()"}
+| presupposition | entailment
++- Where is the man with the megaphone?.
+|| 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!
++- Queen of England attended a cooking workshop.
+|| Because whether you have this utterance or the negation of it "The Queen of England" still exists.
+-+ My dog Richard was killed in a car accident.
+|| The reason why we have an entailment here is the fact that we have can think of a second sentence that indicates the truth of the sentence you just read. <br/> My dog Richard was killed in a car accident (A) (entails) My dog is dead (B) <br/> The consequence of A is B. In order to find out whether you deal with an entailment or a presupposition you may negate the sentence A. If sentence B remains true then you are confronted with a presupposition, if not you most certainly deal with an entailment: <br/> My dog Richard was not killed in a car accident (A) My dog is dead (B)= WRONG!!!!=> Entailment
+</quiz>
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presupposition	entailment
		Where is the man with the megaphone?.
		Queen of England attended a cooking workshop.
		My dog Richard was killed in a car accident.