| a little | 26 | degree |
| especially | 7 | manner |
| by the minute | 7 | temporal |
| boy → get → older | 407 |
| boy → grow → older | 222 |
| boy → become → older | 12 |
| boy → be grown → older | 7 |
| boy → gotten → older | 4 |
| boy → grown → older | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.170 | 0.484 | 0.346 |
| Raw frequency | 655 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.884 |
| Modifier score | 0.500 |
| Perplexity | 310.783 |