--- title: Soft words for hard things: death and dying — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Euphemisms description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 2 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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/2-death-official-and-slang/) [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: death and… # Soft words for hard things: death and dying The 16 questions of lesson 2 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with their options, 96 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/2-death-official-and-slang/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t1/) — News: "Two people were injured in the crash. One later succumbed in hospital." How many people died? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t2/) — Report: "The strike hit the bridge. Collateral damage was limited." What is the report trying not to say plainly? — right ✓ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t3/) — Chatty: "Mate, the telly's given up the ghost again, I'm not paying for another." What is the speaker angry about? — right ✓ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t4/) — Liam says "the hospital said Gran had a negative outcome, so she's fine, right?" What is true? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t5/) — A tough guy in a film: "Touch my car again and you'll be sleeping with the fishes." What kind of remark is this? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t6/) — Kate's mum says "Uncle Pat popped his clogs." Kate asks "did his shoes break?" What should Kate be told? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t7/) — A doctor tells a family "I'm so sorry, she didn't make it." What should the family understand? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t8/) — Gossip: "Old Mick finally carked it, the stubborn old goat." What do you learn? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t9/) — Funeral leaflet: "Choose a coffin for your loved one." Who will lie in the coffin? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t10/) — A milk carton says "expired 3 May". What is the difference from "the patient expired"? — right ✓ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t11/) — A police statement: "The suspect was neutralized at the scene." Which plain sentence matches? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/t12/) — "He went west in 1917," says Grandad about his own grandad, a soldier. Where is that soldier now? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/e1/) — Identify the plain meaning of the term "collateral damage" as it appears in an official military communiqué. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/e2/) — It is given that a hospital record states that a patient "expired". Ascertain what occurred. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/e3/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established meaning of "succumbed to his injuries" in a press report. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/e4/) — Determine which of the following expressions denotes death in the humorous register of British English. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [1. Soft words for hard things: death and dying](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/) - next →: [3. Soft words for hard things: death and dying, ill…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/) - ↑ back to [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/)