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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2007 May 29;106(2):1028–1037. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.004

Table 1. Sample Test Sentences*.

Sentence Frame Intransitive verb Transitive verb
NVN Xiao3zhu1 qu4 shi1zi/ The pig goes the lion. Xiao3zhu1 na2 shi1zi/ The pig takes the lion.
Causal enactment: The pig pushes or carries the lion
Noncausal enactment: The pig goes to the lion or the pig and lion go separately.
NV Xiao3gou3 lai2/ The dog comes. Xiao3gou3 dai4/ The dog brings.
Causal enactment: The dog pushes or carries an introduced animal or box
Noncausal enactment: The dog moves alone.
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The target verb is in italics.