| with the passage of time | 6 | temporal |
| sometimes | 2 | temporal |
| gradually | 2 | manner |
| crack → be → deeper | 11 |
| crack → become → deeper | 10 |
| crack → get → deeper | 7 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.451 | 0.458 | 0.091 |
| Raw frequency | 28 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.423 |
| Modifier score | 0.400 |
| Perplexity | 159.179 |