Table 2.

Design of the CYCLE-N.

Grammar aspect	Syntax or morphology	Comprehension A: button press Instruction: Look at two pictures and silently choose the one that matched a sentence you hear.	Comprehension B: Instruction: Silently answer a question about a picture you are looking at	Production Instruction: Finish my sentence.
Active voice	Syntax	The girl is kicking a boy.	–	Here the clown is pulling the dog but here…
Passive voice	Syntax	Here the girl is pushing the boy.	–	Here the boy is chasing the dog but here the boy… (Fig. 1a)
Relativized subjects	Syntax	The boy who is kicking the clown is wearing brown.	–	One of these boys is carrying some boxes, one of these boys is making a cake. This is the boy…
Relativized objects	Syntax	The girl who the boy is hugging is wearing green. (Fig. 1b)	–	The boy is making one cake. The father is making another cake. This is the cake…
Subject questions	Syntax	–	Which person is pushing the man?	–
Object questions	Syntax	–	Which person is the cat chasing?	–
Regular past tense marking	Morphology	The mother dressed the baby.	–	Here the boy is about to pour the juice but here he already…
Irregular past tense marking	Morphology	The boy washed his face.	–	Here the boy is about to draw a picture but here he already… (Fig. 1d)