| progressively | 3 | manner |
| over time | 3 | temporal |
| always | 3 | degree |
| line → be → steeper | 15 |
| line → get → steeper | 12 |
| line → become → steeper | 4 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.170 | 0.708 | 0.122 |
| Raw frequency | 31 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.315 |
| Modifier score | 1.000 |
| Perplexity | 99.471 |