I really thought so, too… but it doesn’t work. Adding is not neuter didn’t help. Same results in 10.1 and 9.3/6M62.
At the moment, “it” means the corpse, “him” is unset, “her” is unset and “them” is unset.
I thought this sounded like a tough problem, but looking over the Standard Rules with it in mind, it looked even tougher to come up with good choices for all the responses you might want to modify.
I found it amusing, though, that sort of like we were talking about the versatility of the “You can’t see any such thing” response, one could get away with not changing many of the conversational defaults.
- answering it that “There is no reply.”
- telling it about “This provokes no reaction.”
- asking it about “There is no reply.”
and even
waking: That seems unnecessary.