Semantics1 Week 2

Additional material for the meeting of week 2, April 22, 2015.

Our literary scenario: Game of Thrones (TV series)

• Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones
  Site on season 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_%28season_1%29
• Short summary of season 1 on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxp6x3YreI

Getting into our literary scenario

Watch the trailer of Season 1 of Game of Thrones:

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Having watched the video, which of the following statements are true in our scenario?

{Click on those statements that are true in our scenario. |type="[]"} + John Snow is Ned Stark's son. - Catelyn wants that her husband becomes the king's Hand. - Catelyn wants her husband to become the Hand of the king. + There is a king. - There is no king.

What we need in a formal model

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For next week

• Get information on our literary scenario: Game of Thrones (TV series)
  • Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones
    Site on season 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_%28season_1%29
  • Short summary of season 1 on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxp6x3YreI
• Read Levine et al. (in prep.), Chapter 2, Section 1 [available at olat].
• Define a model based on the Game of Thrones-scenario that contains:
  • three individuals,
  • two properties,
  • one binary relation (2-place relation), and
  • one ternary relation (3-place relation).
• Add the corresponding name symbols and predicate symbols.
  For an example see the solution to this excercise.
• Provide two statements that can be evaluated with respect to your model. One of them should be true, the other false.