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title: Soft words for hard things: relations and family — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Euphemisms
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 13 «Soft words for hard things: 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.
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# Soft words for hard things: relations and family

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The 16 questions of lesson 13 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with their options, 99 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/13-relations-and-family/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t1/) — Divorce announcement: "Citing irreconcilable differences, the couple will divorce." Why are they divorcing? — right ✓ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t2/) — Gossip: "His lady friend? Oh, she's been round every day since Easter." Who is she? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t3/) — Uncle at a barbecue: "Ask the boss, mate", pointing at his wife. What is "the boss" here? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t4/) — News: "The prince, who has been estranged from his family, flew home alone." What is true? — right ✓ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t5/) — Teen: "nah he's footloose and fancy-free now, dumped her last week." What does it tell you? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t6/) — Wedding reply card: "Name: \_\_\_ Plus-one: \_\_\_". What goes in the second blank? — right ✓ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t7/) — Aunt: "Your cousin? Black sheep, love. Don't ask." What is the aunt saying? — right ✓ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t8/) — Friend: "Mum and Dad are taking some time apart. Dad's at Gran's." What is likely happening? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t9/) — Status update: "Relationship: it's complicated." What is the person saying? — right ✓ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t10/) — Old aunt, rough: "Thirty and still on the shelf, poor thing." What does she mean (unkindly)? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t11/) — Kid: "We're a blended family, I got 2 stepsisters." What is true? — right ✓ · ★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/t12/) — Gossip: "Them two? On a break again. Back together by Friday, you'll see." What is the gossip saying? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/e1/) — Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the expression "significant other" as employed in formal American correspondence. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/e2/) — It is stated that an individual's family is a "single-parent family". Ascertain which of the following is thereby established. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established usage of the phrase "living in sin" in former times. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/e4/) — Which of the following most accurately characterises a remark by a parent that she and her sibling are "not close"? — wrong ✗ · exam

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