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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2021 Dec 31;225:105068. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105068

Table 2.

Sentence examples from the SOAP test of comprehension (see Love & Oster, 2002 for full test)

Sentence Type Canonicity Sentence

Active Canonical The young doctor with blonde hair questions the soldier.
Subject-relative Canonical The soldier in uniform that questions the doctor has blonde hair.
Passive Noncanonical The doctor with blonde hair is questioned by the soldier.
Object-relative Noncanonical The soldier in uniform that the doctor questions has blonde hair.