| in some cases | 13 | temporal |
| for spinal instability | 11 | purpose |
| sometimes | 9 | temporal |
| patient → need → surgery | 119 |
| patient → require → surgery | 109 |
| patient → need → the surgery | 7 |
| patient → need → this surgery | 6 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.427 | 0.506 | 0.067 |
| Raw frequency | 241 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.770 |
| Modifier score | 0.577 |
| Perplexity | 143.287 |