--- title: "Cashed in his chips" means died; it is American slang taken from ca… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics description: "Cashed in his chips" means died; it is American slang taken from card games. Who acts: ghost. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: death and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/) / 17 # Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 17 "Cashed in his chips" means died; it is American slang taken from card games. **Who acts:** ghost · **What happens:** cash, mean, die, be, take · **To what, where:** chips, American slang, card games · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ghost), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:002-death-official-and-slang.lesson:17 # text = "Cashed in his chips" means died; it is American slang taken from card games. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 002-death-official-and-slang.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Cashed cash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 14 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cash** *in a quote* | participle | | | | machine's chips | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | participle | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is a** | present | ghost | American slang | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | participle | | American slang *not said here* | | card games | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from game=Initial\_Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:euphemisms:002-death-official-and-slang.lesson:17`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/)