--- title: Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and t… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Euphemisms description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/) [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, illness and the body The 16 questions of lesson 3 «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with their options, 92 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/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t1/) — News: "The young racing driver met an untimely end at Monza." What happened? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t2/) — Chatty: "School's out, I'm under the weather anyway, staying in." Why is the speaker staying in? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t3/) — Ellie says "the fallen means soldiers who fell off their horses, right?" What is true? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t4/) — Dad: "This sofa's on its last legs, we'll need a new one." What is true about the sofa? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t5/) — A Londoner in a film: "Cross me and you're brown bread." What kind of remark is it? — right ✓ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t6/) — A notice: "Mr Lee's family invite friends to a celebration of life on Saturday." What is happening? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t7/) — Gossip: "Uncle Jim? Snuffed it last year, God rest him." What do you learn? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t8/) — News: "Sales of the new phone have flatlined." What does "flatlined" mean here? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t9/) — A grave says "In memory of our dearly departed mother." Who is buried there? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t10/) — A teacher says "Josh is a bit off colour, so he went home." Why did Josh go home? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t11/) — Grandma says "When I was young, we didn't say cancer, we said the big C." Why did people do that? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/t12/) — Which phrase about death would you use in a polite speech, not a joke? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/e1/) — Identify the plain meaning of the designation "funeral director". — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/e2/) — It is given that a commemorative inscription refers to "the fallen". Determine to whom the inscription refers. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/e3/) — Select the response that most accurately characterises the expression "under the weather". — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/e4/) — Ascertain the meaning of the expression "pre-need arrangements" as employed in commercial funeral literature. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [2. Soft words for hard things: death and dying](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/) - next →: [4. Soft words for hard things: illness, disability…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/) - ↑ back to [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/)