Task1 Part 1
Lexical semantics: what are the meaning contributions of words and
morphemes?
1. Semantic relations between words:
- dead vs. Alive; cat vs. Animal; few vs. Not many
- enter, swim, fall vs. Move
- open vs. Openinge, openings, openingo
- Semantic representation of words:
2. Predicate words: V, N, A, P (with their referential and non-
referential arguments)
- referential expressions: PN
- operators: negation, quantifiers, if. . . Then, modalities,. . . - adverbs and discourse particles: too, even, then, so,. . . 3. Presuppositions:
- Mary dried her socks. - She regretted having lied. - The pope had another whiskey. 4. Prototypes: relation between words and reality
- Kiwis are birds vs. Eagles are birds
Part 2,
- Answer related questions in slides. Anyone can explain to me this?.

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explanation:

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the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.