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 - I do not like my tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.
 || This is an implicature.
+{ Alex's wife has called.
+|type = "[]"}
++ Alex is married.
+|| Negation test: The inference also holds for ''Alex's wife hasn't called.''
+- Alex is male.
+|| This is an implicature based on heuristic world knowledge that in most cases, the spouse of a woman is a man.
+- Alex's wife has called the speaker.
+|| This is an implicature, as we can only guess who was called from the context.
++ There exists a married woman.
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	There are dishes that need to be washed up.
	I do not have time to do the dishes.
	The dishes needed to be washed up before.
	Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.

	I hate tea with milk.
	I am having tea.
	Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.
	I do not like my tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.

	Alex is married.
	Alex is male.
	Alex's wife has called the speaker.
	There exists a married woman.

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