SEMANTIC TRIAL TEST BÀI THI CUỐI KỲ MÔN NGỮ NGHĨA HỌC

A CHECK - UP TEST ON ENGLISH SEMANTICS
Time allowed: 30’
Choose the correct answer by putting a tick on the space for one of the
letters ABCD on your answer sheet
* Please do not write anything in this reading paper
1. Which of the following DOES NOT HAVE the correct entailment?
a. Bill didn’t see a flower entails Bill didn’t see a rose.
b. Bill didn’t see a person entails Bill didn’t see a
boy.
c. Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill saw
a person.
d. Bill didn’t see a rectangular entails Bill didn’t see a square.
2. Which of the following involves different possible things that the same
expression may refer to?
a. sense
b. variable reference
c. constant reference
d. no reference
3. Which of the following HAVE the correct entailment?
a. Bill saw a flower entails Bill saw a rose.
b. Bill didn’t see a rose entails Bill didn’t see a flower.
c. Bill didn’t see a rose entails Bill saw a sunflower.
d. Bill saw all flowers entails Bill saw a rose.
4. Which of the following is the contradiction sentence?
a. That bachelor is an innocent man.
b. That bachelor is not human being.
c. That bachelor is never married.
d. That bachelor is male.


5. Which of the following expressions of the sentence: The present Prime

Minister of Viet Nam is Nguyen Tan Dung has constant reference?
a. Nguyen Tan Dung
b. Viet Nam
c. the present Prime Minister
d. a and b
6. Which of the following is NOT independent of circumstance or
particular occasions or topic of conversation?
a. sense
b. variable reference
c. constant reference
d. extension
7. Which of the following utterances would be the most inappropriate ?
a. Please get me a cup of coffee.
b. Please bring me a cup of coffee.
c. Please take a cup of coffee.
d. Please go to me with a cup of coffee.
8. Which of the underlined expressions in the sentence “Barrack Obama is
the elected president of the United States of America” are referring
expressions?
a. Barrack Obama
b. the elected president of the United States of America
c. is
d. a & b
9. Which of the following is an example of the statement?
Some sentences which do not contain ambiguous words can be
ambiguous
a. Yesterday a 14th century chair was bought by a dealer with a
beautifully carved wooden leg.
b. He gave her a gold ring yesterday.
c. He is really so kind to me.

d. I sawed a rotten branch of the ash tree in my garden.
10. Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?
a. beautiful - ugly
b. far - near
c. deep - shallow
d. parent – off-spring
11.Which of the following is the case of sense relation of the pair father –
dad?
a. dialectal synonyms
b. semantic synonyms
c. stylistic synonyms
d. none of the above
12. The predicate afraid used in the sentence John was afraid of this spider
is
a.
b.
c.
d.

one-place predicate
two place-predicate
three-place predicate
none of the above

13. Which of the following can be true or false?
a. sentence
b. utterance
c. proposition

d. all of the above
14. Which of the following is NOT a generic sentence?
a. A bear never eats the dead body.
b. A bear is the animal that typically hibernates during winter.
c. A bear sleeps almost during a winter.
d. A bear is sucking honey from the bee nest.
15. Which of the following is an example of the statement:
Some sentences which contain ambiguous words are ambiguous


a. The chicken is ready to eat.
b. You’re so kind to me.
c. The cranes were transported by the ship.
d. Fred said that he would pay me on Thursday.
16. The expression one of the greatest playwrights in English Literature
in the sentence William
Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest playwrights in English
Literature is
a. constant reference
b. a referring expression
c. never refers to different things or person
d. a & b
17. Which of the following pairs are hyponym - superordinate?
a. daisy - sun flower
b. loyal – virtue
c. give - take
d. steal – borrow
18. Which of the following sentences indicating an orientation towards the
speaker?
a. Please take some warm clothes with you.

b. Please bring some warm clothes with you.
c. Please come here with some warm clothes.
d. b & c.
19. Which of the following pairs are paraphrases?
a. Tom loaned money from ABC Bank. ABC Bank loaned money to Tom.
b. John and Mary are twins. Mary and Tom are twins.
c. Room 101 is above this room. Room 101 is below this room.
d. Bill killed Tom. Tom died.
20. Which of the following is the synthetic sentence?
a. Bachelors are male.
b. Bachelors are not reptiles.
c. Bachelors are not human
being.
d. Bachelors are lonely.


21. Which of the following describes the relation between (A) and (B)
(A) Fester regretted that he borrowed me 5 dollars.
(B) I lent 5 dollars to Fester.
a. (A) and (B) are paraphrases.
b. (A) entails (B)
c. (A) presupposes (B)
d. a and b
22. Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?
a. worse than – better
than
b. hot – cold
c. ugly – beautiful
d. near – far
23. Which of the following underlined is an example of referring expression?

a. Mother to child: If you don’t behave properly, I’ll report this to your
nanny, boy.
b. Mother to child: This dog will not bite you, son.
c. Mother to child: The air – goddess will come in your dream.
d. Mother to child: Don’t touch that barking dog because he may bite you.
24. Which of the following is the case of polysemy?
a. fast (quickly) and fast (not eat)
b. punch (hit with a fist) and punch (a kind of strong alcoholic drink)
c. head (body part) and head (hit with the head)
d. ball (round object) and ball (dance)
25. The underlined in “Please open the door” is:
a. deixis
b.
constant
reference
c. predicator
d. variable reference


26. The pair unmarried and married are binary
antonyms because
a. both of them can combine with very
b. between them exhaust all the relevant possibilities
c. both of them can be used in comparison
construction d. all of the above mentioned
27. Which of the following expressions can be proposition?
a. My sick cat that is lying on the armchair over there.
b. John Lennon who was assassinated in 1980 by a
madman
c. A man is walking along the street.

d. A lovely cat (not understood as an elliptical sentence)
28. Which of the following refer to the thing or person being talked
about in the context of the utterance?
a. variable reference
b. extension
c. sense
d. none of the above
29. Which of the following is incorrect?
a. Analyticity is a sense property of a predicate
b. Contradiction is a sentence which is always false
c. Syntheticity is a sense property of an individual sentence.
d. Analyticity is a sentence which is always true
30. Which of the following pairs of expressions binary?
a. borrow - lend
b. give - take
c. conceal - reveal
d. evergreen - deciduous
31. Which of the following is the case of homonymy?
a. row (line) and row (argument)
b. fork (of a road) and fork (a tool)


c. branch (of science) and branch (of a tree)
d. neck (body part) and neck (of a bottle)
32. Which of the underlined is the argument of a simple sentence?
a. This dog will not bite you, son.
b. This dog will not bite you, son.
c. This dog will not bite you, son.
d. This dog will not bite you, son.
33. Which of the following expressions of the sentence Osama bin Laden is

hiding in Afghanistan is the constant reference?
a. Osama bin Laden
b. Afghanistan
c. hide
d. a and b
34. The predicates beautiful and ugly are gradable anonyms because
a. they describes the same relationship when mentioned in
the opposite order b. between them exhaust all the relevant
possibilities
c. both of them belong to the open-ended English achievement system
d. these two predicates are at opposite ends of a continuous scale of
values
35. Which of the following DOES NOT mention a connection of language
to the world?
a.extensi
on
b.
sense
c. reference
d. all of the above
36. Which of the following pairs illustrates symmetric entailment?
a. Mary took all the dishes and Mary stole all the plates.
b. Mary hid all the dishes and Mary concealed all the dishes.


c. Mary purchased all the plates and Mary bought
all the dishes. d. both a and c
37. Which of the following is analytic?
a. The pentagon is six- sided
b. Young Juan’s pet is not a mammal.

c. A triangle is three-sided figure
d. My snake is not reptile
38. Which of the following is the case of analytic sentence?
a. Superman is not Clark Kent
b. Superman is Clark Kent
c. Clark Kent is not
Superman
d.
Superman
is
Superman
39. The sentence Fred said that he would pay me
on Friday is
a. lexically ambiguous
b. structurally ambiguous
c. an analytic
sentence d. all of
the above
40. The word drive is an example of polysemy because
a. drive (of a car) and drive (of a nail) are identical in spelling
b. its two senses (drive a nail) and (drive a car) both contain the concept
of cause sth. to move
c. drive (of a car) and drive (of a nail) are identical in
pronunciation d. none of the above


A CHECK - UP TEST ON ENGLISH
SEMANTICS
Ti me all otted : 30’
Choose the correct answer by putting a tick on the space for one

of the letters ABCD on your answer sheet
* Please do not write anything in this reading paper
1. Which of the following DOES NOT HAVE the correct entailment?
a. Bill didn’t see a flower entails Bill
didn’t see a rose. b. Bill didn’t see a
person entails Bill didn’t see a boy. c.
Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill saw a


person.
d. Bill didn’t see a rectangula r entails Bill
didn’t see a square.
2. Which of the following involves different possible things that the
same expression may refer to?
a.
s
e
n
s
e
b. variable
reference c.
constant
reference
d.

no

reference
3. Which of the following HAVE the correct entailment?

a. Bill saw a flower entails
Bill saw a rose.
b. Bill didn’t see a rose entails Bill
didn’t see a flower. c. Bill didn’t see a
rose entails Bill saw a sunflower.
d. Bill saw all flowers entails
Bill saw a rose.
4. Which of the following is the contradiction sentence ?
a. That bachelor is an
innocent

man. b. That

bachelor is not human
being. c. That bachelor
is never married.
d.

That


bachelor
male.

is

5. Which of the following expressions of the sentence The present
Prime Minister of Viet Nam is
Nguyen Tan Dung has constant reference ?
a. Nguyen

Tan Dung
b. Viet Nam
c. the present
Prime Minister d.
a and b
6. Which of the following is NOT independent of circumstance or
particular occasions or topic of
conversation?
a.
s
e
n
s
e
b. variable
reference
c. constant
reference
d.
extension


7. Which of the following utterances would be the most inappropriate ?
a. Please get me a cup of coffee.
b. Please bring me a cup
of coffee. c. Please take a
cup of coffee.
d. Please go to me with a cup of coffee.
8. Which of the underlined expressions in the sentence “Barrack Obama is
the elected president of the

United States of America” are referring expressions?
a. Barrack Obama
b. the elected president of the United
States of America c. is
d. a & b
9. Which of the following is an example of the statement?
Some sentences which do not contain ambiguous words can be ambiguous
a. Yesterday a 14th century chair was bought by a dealer with a
beautifully carved wooden leg. b. He gave her a gold ring yesterday.
c. He is really so kind to me.
d. I sawed a rotten branch of the ash tree in my garden.
10. Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms ?
a. beautiful ugly b. far near
c. deep - shallow
d. parent – off-spring
11. Which of the following is the case of sense relation of the pair father –
dad?
a. dialectal
synonyms b.
semantic
synonyms c.
stylistic
synonyms d.
none of the
above
12. The predicate afraid used in the sentence John was afraid of this spider is


a. one-place
predicate b. two

place-predicate
c. three-place predicate
d. none of the
above
13. Which of the following can be true or false?
a.
sentenc
e b.
utteranc
e
c. proposition
d. all of the above


14. Which of the following is NOT a generic sentence ?
a. A bear never eats the dead body.
b. A bear is the animal that typically hibernates
during winter. c. A bear sleeps almost during a
winter.
d. A bear is sucking honey from the bee nest.
15. Which of the following is an example of the statement:
Some sentences which contain ambiguous words are ambiguous
a. The chicken is ready to eat.
b. You’re so kind to me.
c. The cranes were transported by the ship.
d. Fred said that he would pay me on Thursday.
16. The expression one of the greatest playwrights in English Literature
in the sentence William
Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest playwrights in English Literature
is

a. constant reference
b. a referring expression
c. never refers to different
things or person d. a & b
17. Which of the following pairs are hyponym - superordinate ?
a. daisy - sun
flower b. loyal
– virtue
c. give - take
d. steal – borrow
18. Which of the following sentences indicating an orientation towards the
speaker?
a. Please take some warm clothes
with you. b. Please bring some
warm clothes with you. c. Please
come here with some warm
clothes. d. b & c.
19. Which of the following pairs are paraphrases?
a. Tom loaned money from ABC Bank.
ABC Bank loaned money


to Tom. b. John and Mary
are twins.
Mary and Tom are twins.
c. Room 101 is above this room.
Room 101 is below
this room. d. Bill killed
Tom.
Tom died.

20. Which of the following is the synthetic sentence ?
a. Bachelors are male.
b. Bachelors are not reptiles.
c. Bachelors are not
human being. d.
Bachelors are lonely.
21. Which of the following describes the relation between (A) and (B)
(A) Fester regretted that he borrowed
me 5 dollars. (B) I lent 5 dollars to
Fester.
a. (A) and (B) are paraphrases.
b. (A) entails (B)
c. (A) presupposes (B)
d. a and b
22. Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?
a. worse than –
better than b. hot –
cold
c. ugly – beautiful
d. near – far
23. Which of the following underlined is an example of referring
expression?
a. Mother to child: If you don’t behave properly, I’ll report this to your
nanny, boy.
b. Mother to child: This dog will not bite you, son.
c. Mother to child: The air – goddess will come in your dream.
d. Mother to child: Don’t touch that barking dog because he may bite
you.

24. Which of the following is the case of polysemy?
a. fast (quickly) and fast (not eat)
b. punch (hit with a fist) and punch (a kind of strong alcoholic drink)
c. head (body part) and head (hit with the head)
d. ball (round object) and ball (dance)
25. The underlined in “Please open the door” is:
a. deixis
b. constant


reference c.
predicator
d. variable reference
26. The pair unmarried and married are binary
antonyms because a. both of them can combine
with very
b. between them exhaust all the relevant possibilities
c. both of them can be used in
comparison construction d. all of the
above mentioned


27. Which of the following expressions can be proposition?
a. My sick cat that is lying on the armchair over there
b. John Lennon who was assassinated in
1980 by a madman c. A man is walking along
the street.
d. A lovely cat (not understood as an elliptical sentence)
28. Which of the following refer to the thing or person being talked
about in the context of the utterance?

a. variable
reference b.
extension
c. sense
d. none of the above
29. Which of the following is incorrect?
a. Analyticity is a sense property of a predicate
b. Contradiction is a sentence which is always false
c. Syntheticity is a sense property of an
individual sentence. d. Analyticity is a
sentence which is always true
30. Which of the following pairs of expressions binary?
a. borrow lend b. give
- take
c. conceal - reveal
d. evergreen - deciduous
31. Which of the following is the case of homonymy?
a. row (line) and row (argument)
b. fork (of a road) and fork (a tool)
c. branch (of science) and branch (of a tree)
d. neck (body part) and neck (of a bottle)
32. Which of the underlined is the argument of a simple sentence?
a. This dog will not bite
you, son. b. This dog will
not bite you, son. c. This
dog will not bite you, son.


d. This dog will not bite
you, son.

33. Which of the following expressions of the sentence Osama bin Laden is
hiding in Afghanistan is
the constant reference ?
a. Osama bin
Laden b.
Afghanistan
c. hide
d. a and b


34. The predicates beautiful and ugly are gradable anonyms because
a. they describes the same relationship when mentioned
in the opposite order b. between them exhaust all the
relevant possibilities
c. both of them belong to the open-ended English achievement system
d. these two predicates are at opposite ends of a continuous scale of
values
35. Which of the following DOES NOT mention a connection of language
to the world?
a.
extension
b. sense
c. reference
d. all of the above
36. Which of the following pairs illustrates symmetric entailment?
a. Mary took all the dishes and Mary stole all the plates.
b. Mary hid all the dishes and Mary concealed all the dishes.
c. Mary purchased all the plates and Mary bought
all the dishes. d. both a and c
37. Which of the following is analytic?

a. The pentagon is six- sided
b. Young Juan’s pet is not a mammal.
c. A triangle is threesided figure d. My snake
is not reptile
38. Which of the following is the case of analytic sentence?
a. Superman is not
Clark Kent b. Superman
is Clark Kent
c. Clark Kent is not
Superman d. Superman


is Superman
39. The sentence Fred said that he would pay
me on Friday is a. lexically ambiguous
b. structurally ambiguous
c. an analytic
sentence d. all of
the above
40. The word drive is an example of polysemy because
a. drive (of a car) and drive (of a nail) are identical in spelling
b. its two senses (drive a nail) and (drive a car) both contain the concept
of cause sth. to move
c. drive (of a car) and drive (of a nail) are identical
in pronunciation d. none of the above


Choose the correct answer (A, B, C, D) and then put ONE tick for each
answer on the answer sheet.

1. Which of the following examples is NOT a generic sentence?
A.

The whale is a mammal.

B.

That whale over there is not a mammal.

C.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

D.

A wasp makes its nest in a hole in a tree.

2. Which of the following has the correct entailment? (

means

“entails”)
A. David didn’t take a pound of apples.
pound of apples.

David didn’t steal a


B. John didn’t get savaged by a horse.

John didn’t get

savaged by an animal.
C. That was an expensive sandwich.

That was an

expensive meal.
D. We traveled on a small bus.

We traveled on a small

vehicle.
3. In which of the following examples, “a man” is a referring expression?
A.

A man was in here looking for you yesterday morning.

B.

The person who was killed by the road was not a man.

C.

Mary is not a man’s name.

D.

The first sign of the monsoon is a cloud on the horizon no bigger than
a man’s hand.

4. Which of the following words normally has “constant reference”?
A.The school-yard

B. The weekly

newspaper
C. My bicycle

D. The Sun

5. Which of the following are NOT deictic words?
A. dogs, cats, fish

B. now,

there, then

C. I, you, we
D. this, that, these

6. What is the degree of the verbal predicate “gave” in the sentence?
Herod gave Salome a nice present.
A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

7. What is the semantic role of the underlined expression of the sentence?


Dane is proud of his family.
A. predicators

B. referents

C. predicates

D.

arguments
8. Which of the following underlined expressions is the referring
expression? (imagine normal circumstances for the following utterances )
A. Alice married a Norwegian
B. Mary wants to marry a Norwegian.
C. John is looking for a car.
D. Dick believes that a man with a limp killed Bo Peep.
9. Where is the speaker? (imagine normal circumstances for the following
utterance )
“Please don’t bring food into the computer room.”
A.

In the computer room.

B. Not in

the computer room

C. Don’t know

D. B and C

10. Where is the speaker? (imagine normal circumstances for the following
utterance )
“Could you take this novel into the bedroom for me?”
A. Don’t know

B. In the

bedroom
C. Not in the bedroom
11. Which is the ambiguous sentence?

D. A and C


A. Cairo is a large city.

B. John is the person in

the corner.
C. John’s car is red.

D. Fast cars and

motorcycles are dangerous.
12. Which of the following has the correct entailment? (

means

“entails”)
A. John saw a big mouse.
B. D. I saw a boy.

John saw a big animal.
I saw a person.

C.Henry chewed up all my tulips

Henry chewed up all my

flowers.
D. All Rachel’s birds died.

All Rachel’s pets died.

13. Which pair is a gradable antonym?
A. beautiful - ugly

B. dead - alive

C. chalk - cheese

D. top - bottom

14. Which pair is a binary antonym?
A. copper - tin

B. love - hate

C. same - different

D. below - above

15. Which pair of expression is a converse?
A. mother - child

B. love - hate

C. conceal - reveal

D. spring - summer

16. Which pair of sentences are paraphrases of each other?