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Semantics: Mock Exam (February, 2001). Semantic parameters: (3 points): Describe the semantic parameters and the type of event (mode of action, activities, ) that characterise the predication in the following sentences. • His face reddened. • I pushed open the door. • She is hearing funny noises in the attic. • He fell asleep in no time. • His staff shall receive instructions. • John lives in London. • This boy resembles his father. • John paints water−colours. • They went to Chicago. • Last night he drank red wine. • The wheel was spinning. • This box contains cigars. Are the NP's below referential? Answer Y or N. Explain. (3 points) • Captain Segura reserved a photograph on the desk:. A heap of smashed metal which had once been a car. And this? : A young man's face in the flashlights: a man's foot touching his shoulders. Do you know him?. • We had a call from P. Sanchez about a man who had broken into his house with vague threats. • I could have made a beautiful woman very happy with a necklace of rubies. • No such profits, of course, were possible for the little man in the streets. • You've been writing his elegy like a bad novelist preparing an effect. • I just picked up in case I had to hit someone. Define the semantic relations that characterise the non−verbal predicates in the following sentences, and underline the predicator (2 points): • John is a teacher. • My mother is the woman in the corner. • He's very good at his work. • The meeting will be at three o'clock. 1
