| over time | 19 | temporal |
| to the dentition | 10 | transitive-object |
| often | 7 | degree |
| tooth → be → shorter | 57 |
| tooth → become → shorter | 53 |
| tooth → get → shorter | 52 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.406 | 0.537 | 0.056 |
| Raw frequency | 162 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.517 |
| Modifier score | 0.600 |
| Perplexity | 247.258 |