Semantics 1, WiSe 2016/17 (Sailer)

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Material for week 8

Homework:

Exercises

(the following exercises are copied from https://www.lexical-resource-semantics.de/wiki/index.php/Exercise-ch3 )

Parts of speech

Determine the part of speech of the words in the sentences.
Use the following part of speech labels: A, Adv, Conj, Comp, Det, N, P, V

a. Alex/

talked/

to/

my/

best/

friend/

.
b. You/

might/

suspect/

that/

Pat/

is/

a/

genius/

.
c. The/

title/

of/

a/

book/

largely/

determines/

whether/

it/

will/

be/

successful/

or/

a/

flop/

.


Feel free to send feedback on this exercise to Manfred Sailer.

Syntactic categories

Determine the syntactic categories of the following groups of words in the sentences.
Use the following labels: AP, AdvP, NP, PP, VP. Write "-" if the group of words does not form a constitutent.
Example: [S: Pat [VP: will [VP: wait [PP: for Alex]]]]

a. [

Alex [

talked [

to [

my best friend]]]]
b. [

[

The president] [

announced [CP: that [

there [

will [

be [

no further taxes]]]]]]].


Feel free to send feedback on this exercise to Manfred Sailer.

Material for week 5

Homework

  • Work through this wiki page.
  • Read: Levine et al., Chapter 2, Section 2
  • Complex formulae:
  • Give 2 complex formulae with one logical connective each. (Use different connectives)
  • Provide the step-by-step computation of the truth value of your two formulae.
  • For the compuation, watch the videos below.

Video

The following video presents the step-by-step computation of the truth value of two formulae with connectives. The example uses a model based on Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The two formulae are:

  • ¬ king(lady-macbeth)
  • king(duncan) ∨ king(lady-macbeth)

The next video shows how the truth value of a more complex formula can be computed. The example contains two connectives:

kill(malcom,lady-macbeth) ∨ ¬thane(macbeth)

The video shows two different methods: top down and bottom up.

Material for week 4

Slides

Slides of meeting 4: File:WS1617-Sem1-slides04-final.pdf

Homework

  • Work through this wiki page.
  • Atomic formulae: Using your model from this week's homework,
  • Give 2 atomic formulae (one true, one false)
  • Provide the step-by-step computation of the truth value of your 2 atomic formulae.
  • For the computation, watch the videos on the wiki page.

Additional material

Check the material on this page: additional material for week 4

Material for week 3

Slides

Slides: File:WiSe1617-Sem1-slides03-final.pdf

Homework

  • Work through this wiki page.
  • Read Levine et al. (in prep.), Chapter 2, Section 1 [available on olat].
  • Define a model and introduce the necessary name symbols and predicate symbols for our scenario with
    • three individuals
    • two relations
    • two properties
  • Use your model and your symbols and write down
    • one formula that is true in your model and
    • two formulae that are false in your model.

Additional material

Check the material on this page: additional material for week 3

Material for week 2

Slides of the meeting: File:Sem1-slides02-final.pdf

Homework

  • Read chapter 1 of Levine et al. (in prep.). -> available on Olat
  • Find or construct one example sentence per type of ambiguity.
  • Get information on our literary scenario Waiting for Godot:
On wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot
Full text: Act 1, Act 2
Full play on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wifcyo64n-w

Material for week 1

Wiki material on ambiguity: Exercise-ch1#Types_of_Ambiguity

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