| much | 10 | degree |
| slightly | 7 | degree |
| over time | 7 | temporal |
| ball → be → softer | 67 |
| ball → get → softer | 21 |
| ball → become → softer | 13 |
| ball → be made → softer | 4 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.112 | 0.613 | 0.275 |
| Raw frequency | 105 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.514 |
| Modifier score | 0.717 |
| Perplexity | 293.313 |