PresuppositionEx2-2

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

  1. Someone has tea.
  2. Someone already has 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.