| slightly | 5 | degree |
| on the outside surface | 5 | location |
| gradually | 3 | manner |
| tone → be → lighter | 33 |
| tone → get → lighter | 10 |
| tone → become → lighter | 7 |
| tone → be → lightened | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.070 | 0.593 | 0.337 |
| Raw frequency | 53 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.562 |
| Modifier score | 0.500 |
| Perplexity | 228.565 |