--- title: Sore backs, glasses and feeling low — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Adult life description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 22 «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/) / Sore backs, glasses and feeling low # Sore backs, glasses and feeling low The 15 questions of lesson 22 «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with their options, 89 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t1/) — Dad on the phone: "Can't come to five-a-side, mate, back's gone again." What happened? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t2/) — Mum, patting her pockets: "Where are my bloody glasses?" They are on top of her head. What do you say? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t3/) — Your brother says, "Grandad's hearing aid whistles 'cause it's broke." How do you put him right? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t4/) — Gran grumbles, "Six months already? I only just went to the dentist." Why do dentists want you back so often? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t5/) — Your friend says, "My mum's depressed, it's my fault 'cause I'm always messing about." What is true? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t6/) — Two neighbours gossip: "He's off with stress again, bone idle that one." Why is this unfair? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t7/) — Dad mutters, "Taking the long way round, I'm not doing the motorway, it does my head in." Why might he avoid it? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t8/) — Your cousin whispers, "Uncle sees a shrink, he must be mad." How do you put her right? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t9/) — Mum on the phone: "The GP's signed me off for a fortnight, I'm running on empty." What does this tell you? — right ✓ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t10/) — Your sister says, "Dad's got a sick note, so he's on holiday, let's go to the beach!" What is wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/t11/) — Grandma jokes, "My mouth feels like it belongs to someone else, love." Where has she been? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises depression? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/e2/) — Identify the principal reason for which many persons above the age of forty require reading spectacles. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/e3/) — It is given that an employee has been "signed off" by a medical practitioner. Ascertain the meaning of this expression. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/e4/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the function of a counsellor. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [21. 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