If a Sentence Expresses a Compound Proposition, Is That Proposition

If a sentence expresses a compound proposition, is that proposition, taken as a whole, asserted?

A) No, because the component propositions are not asserted.
B) No, because only simple propositions, and not compound ones, can be asserted.
C) No, because a whole sentence can never be asserted.
D) Yes, because every declarative sentence, taken as a whole, is asserted.
E) Yes, because every proposition that is expressed is also asserted.