Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of rating scores for the Metaphor set, the Metonymy set, and the Approximation set.
| Pragmatic | Literal | Anomalous | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metaphor set | Meaningfulness | 4 (2–4) | 4 (4–5) | 1 (1–2) |
| Difficulty | 2 (1–2) | 1 (1–2) | 1 (1–2) | |
| Familiarity | 3 (1–4) | 4 (3–5) | 1 (1–1) | |
| Cloze probability | 0.00% | 0.39% | 0.00% | |
| Metonymy set | Meaningfulness | 4 (3–5) | 5 (4–5) | 1 (1–2) |
| Difficulty | 1 (1–2) | 1 (1–2) | 1 (1–2) | |
| World knowledge | 90.29% | – | – | |
| Cloze probability | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | |
| Approximation set | Meaningfulness | 4 (3–5) | 5 (4–5) | 2 (1–2) |
| Difficulty | 1 (1–2) | 1 (1–1) | 2 (1–2) | |
| Typicality | 4 (3–4) | 5 (4–5) | 1 (1–1) | |
| Cloze probability | 1.66% | 11.44% | 0.39% |
Median and interquartile range (in brackets) are reported for meaningfulness, difficulty, and typicality tasks. Cloze probability and world knowledge results are reported in percentage.