Entailments

Both sentences and speakers have entailments. (True or False)

Sentence A entails B if ...............

(A) “Alvin is Mary's husband" entails (B) "Mary is married.” Which type of entailment is used?

“I gave MY MOTHER 2 packages of rice?” entails: "It was my mother whom I gave 2 packages of rice". Which type of entailment is used?

"The speaker will communicate, typically by stress, which entailment is assumed to be more important for interpreting intended meaning than any others." Which entailment is it?

(A) “Some countries have no coastline" entails (B) "Not all countries have a coastline.” Which type of entailment is used?

Give 1 background entailment to the sentence (A) “The painters broke the window."

What is the foreground entailment of the sentence (A): "Teresa CLEANED the bookselves"

(A) "My father owns this car" entails. (B) "This car belongs to my father."

Entailment is concerned with the ____ meaning.

(A) "Alan planted flowers" entails (B) "Alan planted roses." Is (B) an entailment of (A)?

One sentence has only one background entailment and one foreground entailment. (True or False)

"The first sentence entails the second, and the second sentence entails the first." Which type of entailment is it?

Entailment is a relationship that applies between two propositions, where the truth of one implies the truth of the other because of the meanings of _______

(A) "Eliza plays the flute" entails (B) "Eliza plays a musical instrument." Which type of entailment is used?

Entailments depend on sentence meaning, not the context in which the sentence is used. (True or False)

Give 1 one-way entailment to the sentence (A) "Anne caught a Tuna."

Give 1 two-way entailment to the sentence (A) "I have a crush on my friend, who is sitting in front of me."

"The first sentence entails the second but not the other way round." Which type of entailment is it?