Table 1.

The verb classes investigated in Experiment 1.

Class	N	Examples
31.1	191	amuse, baffle, disappoint, surprise, worry
31.2	38	admire, dislike, envy, fear, resent, respect
31.3	61	agonize over, care about, fear for
31.4	3	appeal to, grate on, jar on
33	73	acclaim, blame, forgive, praise, scorn
45.4	95	age, animate, awaken, mellow, popularize
59	41	coax, dare, deceive, influence, trick

Note that the verb class numbers are those used by VerbNet (Kipper et al., 2006), an extension of the original work by Levin (1993).