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title: Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Euphemisms
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 39 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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: rudeness and swearing

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The 16 questions of lesson 39 «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t1/) — Newspaper: "The manager's post-match comments cannot be printed in a family newspaper." What does this suggest? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t2/) — TV guide: "Warning: contains strong language from the start." What should a parent expect? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t3/) — "Grandad hit his thumb with the hammer and turned the air blue." What happened next? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t4/) — Mia reckons "pardon my French" means the person is actually speaking French. right? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t5/) — "ruddy cat's been at the bin again!" Is the speaker saying the cat is red? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t6/) — "he dropped like 3 f-bombs in one sentence lol" What did he do? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t7/) — White House tape transcript: "I don't give a \[expletive deleted\]." What was left out? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t8/) — A mum, cheerful: "Oh fiddlesticks, I've forgotten the milk." How upset is she? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t9/) — An Irish girl laughs, "Feck off, you're joking!" What does she mean? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t10/) — "The neighbours were effing and blinding at each other till midnight." What was going on? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t11/) — "excuse my language but that bloomin' dog — sorry, that lovely dog — ate my shoe." What does the speaker really feel? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/t12/) — Which of these is a phrase for someone else's swearing, not a soft swear word itself? — right ✓ · ★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/e1/) — Where a published report records "expletive deleted", determine what has been omitted from the record. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/e2/) — Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the warning "contains strong language". — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/e3/) — Ascertain the function of the expression "pardon my French" when appended to an utterance. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/e4/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the term "a four-letter word". — right ✓ · exam

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