Exercise Presuppositions: 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

The following sentences make certain presuppositions. What are they? Think about possible presuppositions and check "Done" if you're done.

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 {{CreatedByStudents1213}}<br />''Involved participants: [[User:Katharina_D| Katharina]], [[User:Caterina| Caterina]], [[User:DaniKe| Daniela]], [[User:Eva Kotsikopoulou|Eva]]
+The following sentences make certain presuppositions. What are they? Think about possible presuppositions and check "Done" if you're done.
+<quiz display=simple>
+{ Would you mind washing up the dishes this time?
+|type="()"}
++ Done
+|| # There are dishes that need to be washed up.
+|| # They were dishes that need to be washed up before.
+|| # Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
+|| # Someone else did wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
+|| As you can see one sentence can have far more than just '''''one''''' presupposition!!!
+</quiz>
+<quiz display=simple>
+{ I want more milk for my tea!
+|type="()"}
++ Done
+|| The utterance "I want more milk for my tea!" has the following presuppostions:
+|| # Someone is having 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.
+|| # He/She prefers more milk in his/her tea.
+</quiz>