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. 2016 Mar 30;7:403. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00403

Table 3.

The conditional probability of a light verb appearing given the complex predicate noun and n intervening phrases between the noun and the light verb.

n Intervening phrases Probability of verb
0 3826∕4003 = 0.95
1 131∕133 = 0.98
2 28∕31 = 0.90
3 5∕5 = 1
4 2∕2 = 1
6 1∕1 = 1