The 9065 Code Semantics Quiz Solution for Autumn 2025 is designed for AIOU (Allama Iqbal Open University) students enrolled in BS (2.5 Years) and BS Classes. This English language course explores the study of meaning in language, including lexical semantics, sentence meaning, and context-based interpretations. It helps students understand how words and sentences convey meaning, covering key theories and applications in linguistic semantics. The quiz solution provides detailed explanations to support students in grasping complex concepts effectively. Additionally, quiz solutions for other AIOU subjects are available on mrpakistani.com to assist students in their studies.
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9065 Code SEMANTICS
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(1) What is the nature of meanings mostly?
a) Meanings are fixed and universal
b) Meanings are independent of context
c) Meanings are personal and can differ from person to person
d) Meanings are always literal
(2) The _______________ is the cluster of attitudes that the lexeme may evoke.
a) Connotation
b) Denotation
c) Lexeme
d) Referent
(3) Enmark the right option according to Deixis expression.
a) Last week, I flew over there for a quick visit
b) The book is on the table
c) He went to the store
d) She likes ice cream
(4) “Take the cups off the table and put them in the cabinet” the sentence is an example of:
a) Indefinite reference
b) Generic reference
c) Definite reference
d) Abstract reference
(5) What does a falling tune suggest?
a) The speaker is confident and the utterance is delivered with finality.
b) The speaker is addressing a third person
c) The speaker is unsure of what they are saying
d) The utterance is delivered hesitantly
(6) A ___________ is an object that is typical of the whole class.
a) Prototype
b) Type
c) Generic
d) Guide
(7) We can’t go today, but tomorrow will be fine. Here the relation between two words ‘today and
tomorrow’ is:
a) Pronouns
b) Analogous
c) Referential Ambiguity
d) Temporal expression
(8) Which of the following references are abstract ones?
a) Beauty, novelty, kindness
b) Gold, iron, silver
c) Trousers, scissors, jeans
d) Army, police, mob
(9) A type of noun that is derived from a verb. It looks like a verb but actually functions in a
sentence like a noun.
a) Singular noun
b) Plural noun
c) Verbal noun
d) Common noun
(10) Lexical relation is a ___________.
a) The connection between hyponym & antonyms
b) The connection between componential analysis
c) The connection between lexical field
d) The connection between words
(11) We _______________ with utterances, and each utterance is an instance of a sentence.
a) Humiliate
b) Communicate
c) Request
d) Apologize
(12) Which of the following is a valency two verb?
a) Laugh
b) Run
c) Fall
d) Talk
(13) Traditional philosophers thought that there was a ___________ connection between referring
expression and referent.
a) Traditional
b) Natural
c) Conventional
d) Arbitrary
(14) “Wait here” is a _______ expression.
a) Expressive
b) Declarative
c) Verdictive
d) Directive
(15) A complete thought is also called a main clause or independent clause.
a) Argument
b) Non-factual clause
c) Full statement clause
d) Phrase
(16) A set of words with contrasting meaning is ___________.
a) Homonyms
b) Antonyms
c) Synonyms
d) Hypernym
(17) Since we are used to a writing system that goes from left to right, we may think of syntagmatic
relations as ____________ and paradigmatic relations as vertical.
a) Relational
b) Horizontal
c) Vertical
d) Abortive
(18) Direct assertive utterance starts with I, we, and an assertive_________.
a) Pronoun
b) Verb
c) Object
d) Noun
(19) What is meant by quasi-logical form?
a) Logical connectives
b) Sits between syntactic and logical form
c) Transformational grammar
d) Structural ambiguity
(20) __________ conditions are the conditions that must be in place and the criteria that must be
satisfied for a speech act to achieve its purpose.
a) Acute
b) Proper
c) Reformative
d) Felicity
(21) _____________________ are interested in how individual humans learn, how they retain, recall, or
lose information; how they classify, make judgments, and solve problems.
a) Conceptualists
b) Psychologists
c) Linguists
d) Philosophers
(22) Speech acts that ______ the affairs are called performative.
a) Reap
b) Keep
c) Bring about
d) Run
(23) Speakers know, in a general way, whether something is or is not meaningful in their language. It is
__________________ aspect of any speaker’s semantic knowledge.
a) What is Meaningful?
b) Contradictory Meaning
c) What has Similar Meaning?
d) What has Similar Meaning in Context?
(24) Correct the expression of Deixis phrase:
a) I hope you’ll join us tomorrow
b) Join us
c) I hope you’ll join us
d) Hope you’ll join us tomorrow
(25) The function of a declarative sentence is to _______ someone about something.
a) Ask
b) Permission
c) Surprise
d) Tell
(26) A footprint is _____________.
a) A phonetic sign
b) A natural sign
c) A linguistic sign
d) A human sign
(27) Which of the following is a semantic role that describes the entity that performs an action or
initiates an event?
a) Experiencer
b) Theme
c) Patient
d) Agent
(28) What is the term used for the relationship between a verb and an entity that provides the reason or
cause for an event or action?
a) Experiencer
b) Theme
c) Agent
d) Patient
(29) One form has two or more unrelated meanings (bat flying creature/bat used in baseball) is
___________.
a) Polysemy
b) Hyponyms
c) Homonym
d) Synonyms
(30) A child acquires the fundamentals of that language in the first _____________________.
