| very | 11 | degree |
| for the child | 5 | transitive-object |
| in our busy lives | 5 | location |
| adoption → be → hard | 42 |
| adoption → be → difficult | 32 |
| adoption → be → challenging | 7 |
| adoption → be → tough | 6 |
| adoption → be → difficult decision | 4 |
| adoption → be → a hard thing | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.467 | 0.322 | 0.211 |
| Raw frequency | 94 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.583 |
| Modifier score | 0.400 |
| Perplexity | 47.645 |