I've been bashing my head up against the wall trying to get it to work with choices too haha, then trying to exclude certain menus, but I can't quite figure it out.
As a work around, I've updated the file with a text tag you can use to exclude the individual keywords from the tooltip system. So if you update inline_tooltip.rpy, hopefully you can just:
menu:
"Something something {notooltip}elf{/notooltip} blah blah":to have certain phrases excluded in menus. A hacky work around, but it does work in my testing. Hopefully this works alright for your purposes, even if its a pain to markup.