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The given sentence: "He continued stroking her head even after she'd stopped crying."
Mission: Find the pre-assumptions in the sentence. Explain your reasoning.
Pre-assumptions found:
- She had cried.
- He stroked her head while she cried.
- She had stopped crying.
Explanation:
In order to stop stroking somebody, firstly the action must be begun. Because of that, "He stroked her head while she cried" is a pre-assumption. "She cried" is the trigger to the beginning of stroking her head, and that is why it's another pre-assumption; it's assumed that it'd happened. So is "She stopped crying"; it's expected that the man will do something with the appearance of this new trigger, and that trigger is that she had stopped crying.
Can you feel the sarcasm?
When I handed this week's assignment in, I told the teacher, "you SO deserve this. You gave us stupid questions, you got stupid answers."
C'est la vie.
|Meduza|
Mission: Find the pre-assumptions in the sentence. Explain your reasoning.
Pre-assumptions found:
- She had cried.
- He stroked her head while she cried.
- She had stopped crying.
Explanation:
In order to stop stroking somebody, firstly the action must be begun. Because of that, "He stroked her head while she cried" is a pre-assumption. "She cried" is the trigger to the beginning of stroking her head, and that is why it's another pre-assumption; it's assumed that it'd happened. So is "She stopped crying"; it's expected that the man will do something with the appearance of this new trigger, and that trigger is that she had stopped crying.
Can you feel the sarcasm?
When I handed this week's assignment in, I told the teacher, "you SO deserve this. You gave us stupid questions, you got stupid answers."
C'est la vie.
|Meduza|