| the longer | 7 | temporal |
| for a long time | 5 | temporal |
| in its system | 4 | location |
| dog → have → heartworm | 162 |
| dog → get → heartworm | 77 |
| dog → contract → heartworm | 13 |
| dog → acquire → heartworm | 6 |
| dog → have → an adult heartworm infection | 4 |
| dog → have → a heartworm infection | 4 |
| dog → harbor → heartworm | 4 |
| dog → have → a heartworm infestation | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.627 | 0.320 | 0.053 |
| Raw frequency | 273 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.625 |
| Modifier score | 0.767 |
| Perplexity | 88.974 |