| very | 5 | degree |
| with a rubbery consistency | 3 | other |
| cartilage → be → tough | 15 |
| cartilage → become → hard | 5 |
| cartilage → be → difficult | 4 |
| cartilage → be → hard | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.285 | 0.502 | 0.213 |
| Raw frequency | 27 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.466 |
| Modifier score | 0.500 |
| Perplexity | 88.646 |