Table 3.

Examples of the different types of questions that were administered in the self-paced reading test

Sentence type	Fragment 1*	Fragment 2*	Fragment 3*	Question§	Answer
1a. SR	The hiker that	passed the fisherman	got lost and had to be rescued	Did someone have to rescue the hiker?	Yes
1a. SR	The tenant that	despised the landlord	phoned the newspaper to complain	Did the tenant write to the newspaper?	No
1b. OR	The babysitter that	the child chased	tripped over the toy dump truck	Did someone trip over a toy truck?	Yes
1b. OR	The flight attendant that	the pilot complimented	feared flying before this job	Had the flight attendant never been frightened of flying?	No
2a. Plausible misanalysis	The speaker proposed	by the group	turned out to be disastrous	Was the speaker a failure?	Yes
2a. Plausible misanalysis	The man paid	by the parents	saved their son’s life	Did the son die?	No
2b. Implausible misanalysis	The portrait sketched	by the artist	was very beautiful	Was the picture extremely attractive?	Yes
2b. Implausible misanalysis	The evidence examined	by the lawyer	turned out to be unreliable	Were people able to trust the lawyer?	No
Filler	The athlete practiced hard	but he was not chosen to join	the national team	Did the athlete practice hard?	Yes
Filler	John worked hard	for the last year and a half	to get a long holiday in Spain	Did John want a holiday in America?	No

*The participant had to press 4 on the computer keyboard to advance to the next sentence fragment on the next screen.

§The participant had to press either 3 for yes or 5 for no on the computer keyboard in response to the question.