Semantic category | Picture | Sentence frame | Exact match | Concept match | Other same-category responses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Audio-visual equipment | headphones | When he wanted to listen to music, Heath took out his iPod and plugged in his | 0.60 | 0.89 | 0.08 |
microphone | When Allison sings in her room, she uses her hairbrush as a | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | |
radio | Vince always finds the best music when browsing stations on the | 0.91 | 0.91 | 0.00 | |
speaker | At the rock concert, the bass boomed from the huge | 0.78 | 0.80 | 0.09 | |
television | Flipping through the channels, Katherine couldn’t find anything good to watch on | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | |
Body parts | ear | After swimming, Jaclyn tried to shake out the water stuck in her | 0.73 | 0.73 | 0.22 |
eye | Eric preferred glasses because he always had a hard time putting a contact lens in his right | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.01 | |
finger | Reaching to pick up the files, Lauren got a paper cut on her | 0.84 | 0.84 | 0.16 | |
hand | As a lefty, Kevin held the pencil in his left | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | |
nose | Rudolph the Reindeer’s most prominent feature is his bright red | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | |
Buildings | castle | In medieval times, a moat deterred would-be attackers from sieging a | 0.66 | 0.66 | 0.04 |
church | Every Sunday, the whole family attended Mass at the local | 0.97 | 0.97 | 0.03 | |
house | When she finally had enough money, Sarah moved to the suburbs and bought her own | 0.86 | 0.86 | 0.10 | |
lighthouse | The sailors narrowly avoided being shipwrecked thanks to the beacon on the | 0.39 | 0.39 | 0.00 | |
windmill | It is impossible to travel more than a few miles in the Dutch countryside without seeing a | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.02 | |
Celestial phenomena | cloud | The sky was completely blue except for one fluffy white | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 |
lightning | The dogs howled and ran indoors because of the thunder and | 0.85 | 0.85 | 0.15 | |
moon | John turns into a werewolf whenever there is a full | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | |
rainbow | Leprechauns are known for hiding a pot of gold at the end of a | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.00 | |
star | Alyssa makes a wish whenever she looks up and sees a shooting | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | |
Clothes | glove | While dancing, Michael Jackson was famous for wearing a single sequined | 0.76 | 0.76 | 0.24 |
jacket | After stepping into the cold night air, Liz ran back inside to grab a | 0.52 | 0.94 | 0.04 | |
pants | Because he had eaten too much over winter break, Owen had a hard time fitting into a pair of | 0.73 | 0.99 | 0.01 | |
skirt | As part of her schoolgirl uniform, Kristin was required to wear a white pleated | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.28 | |
sock | After doing his laundry, Mark always seemed to be missing one | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.01 | |
Farm animals | cow | On the class field trip, the students got to milk a | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.04 |
donkey | In the story of Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore is the name of the gloomy | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.06 | |
horse | Colin went to the Kentucky Derby and bet $100 on his favorite | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.00 | |
pig | In the book Charlotte’s Web, a spider becomes friends with a | 0.88 | 0.89 | 0.01 | |
sheep | Wool is made from the fleece of a | 0.86 | 0.96 | 0.01 | |
Furniture | bed | After traveling abroad for weeks, Nathan couldn’t wait to get home and sleep in his own | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.00 |
chair | When thinking about a difficult problem, Zach would often rock back in his | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.06 | |
desk | When the students finished their exams, they were to place them on the teacher’s | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.01 | |
stool | Since there wasn’t an open booth, Blake sat at the counter on a | 0.71 | 0.76 | 0.15 | |
table | After cooking supper, Jan set the food on the dinner | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.00 | |
House parts | balcony | On sunny days, Ron likes to go up to the second floor and read a book outside on his | 0.54 | 0.82 | 0.11 |
chimney | Children believe that Santa brings them presents by climbing down the | 0.97 | 0.97 | 0.02 | |
door | When Jessica knocked, Max opened the front | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | |
roof | To replace the fallen shingles, Emily climbed a ladder to get to the | 0.78 | 0.79 | 0.03 | |
window | The room was getting stuffy, so Cody opened a | 0.97 | 0.97 | 0.03 | |
Musical instruments | drum | As a member of the school band, Steven played the snare | 0.81 | 0.81 | 0.16 |
guitar | Hailey and her friends sang around the campfire while she played her | 0.88 | 0.88 | 0.11 | |
piano | Marissa’s family has a 9-foot Steinway grand | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.00 | |
trumpet | Louis Armstrong was famous for his ability to sing and play the | 0.21 | 0.21 | 0.76 | |
violin | Joshua lifted the bow high into the air and touched it to the strings of his | 0.47 | 0.48 | 0.03 | |
Tableware | cup | When Lilah was little, she drank her juice from a sippy | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.01 |
fork | To eat the pasta, Tina wound it around her | 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.03 | |
glass | Because it was so fragile, Katie was always extra careful when washing the wine | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.05 | |
knife | Since Ricky ordered steak, the server brought him an extra sharp | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.00 | |
spoon | Because his guests were going to have soup, Alex made sure to give each of them a | 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.02 | |
Tools | ax | It is rumored that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree with his | 0.94 | 0.94 | 0.01 |
drill | Kurt wanted to hang a painting, so he bored a hole with a | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.17 | |
hammer | To help with his woodworking, Travis bought some nails and a | 0.94 | 0.94 | 0.06 | |
saw | The carpenter cut the wood in half using a | 0.85 | 0.85 | 0.14 | |
screwdriver | To open the vent, Diane needed a flathead | 0.82 | 0.82 | 0.12 | |
Transport | bus | The football team traveled to the away game together on a | 0.93 | 0.93 | 0.03 |
car | When Rita ran out of gas, she had to ask people to help push her | 0.97 | 0.98 | 0.01 | |
helicopter | Due to the severity of the accident, the skier was airlifted off the mountain by a | 0.95 | 0.96 | 0.04 | |
plane | The nice flight attendant gave the boy an extra bag of pretzels on the | 0.77 | 0.77 | 0.00 | |
truck | As a driver for a shipping company, Jeremy logged thousands of miles every year in his | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.21 |
Note. “Exact match” represents the proportion of responses that matched the name given in the “Picture” column, “Concept match” represents the proportion that matched an acceptable name for the picture (e.g., “jeans” for “pants”), and “Other same-category responses” represents the proportion of responses that belonged to the same category as the target but did not match the concept.