--- title: Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relati… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Euphemisms description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 12 «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / Soft words for hard things: pregnancy… # Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family The 16 questions of lesson 12 «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with their options, 97 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/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t1/) — Gossip at the shop: "Shotgun wedding, that was. Baby came in the autumn." What is the gossip saying? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t2/) — Little Lily: "Mummy says I came from under a cabbage!" What is true? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t3/) — Tabloid headline: "Pop star and actor ARE an item!" What does the headline claim? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t4/) — Text: "u still seeing that guy from football?" What is being asked? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t5/) — Nan's diary, 1962: "Bill and I are going steady at last!" What happened? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t6/) — TV host: "So, are you single?" Singer: "Let's say I'm between relationships." What is the true answer? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t7/) — Classmate: "My mum and dad are separated, but they're not divorced." What is true? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t8/) — Press release: "After much thought, we have decided to consciously uncouple." What really happened? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t9/) — Grumpy uncle: "Him and his missus? Didn't work out, did it. She's gone." What happened? — right ✓ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t10/) — Old novel: "In the small hours, her time came, and the midwife was sent for." What was happening? — right ✓ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t11/) — Aunt in a letter: "Expecting a little stranger at Christmas!" What is she telling? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/t12/) — Teacher's old note: "Comes from a broken home, be gentle with him." What does the note mean? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/e1/) — Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the statement that two persons have "parted ways". — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/e2/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a "seven-month baby", as the expression was formerly employed. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/e3/) — It is stated that a public figure is accompanied by "her companion of many years". Ascertain the nature of the relationship thereby indicated. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/e4/) — Which of the following most accurately characterises a couple described as "living apart"? — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [11. 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