This material is used to demonstrate the experiment performed for this research. The experiment tests the probability of different levels of verbs with different popularities of usage with four nouns for each verb to see if there is a pre-defined knowledge of a person matching the verb and noun to the desired sense (collocate). Normally this material also includes the information & consent sheet, yet since you are not a participant, you are only allowed entry on the task,
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This task is used as a medium to gather probability data from multiple participants. Participants are generally restricted to four images provided by the trials and each verb shown there has those four options. The task works by having participants select nouns from a verb presented in each trial, of course. I decided on the verbs by using the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to find levels of popularity, which I use as a measurement of difficulty level. The levels are divided into seven levels, each level contains five verbs, and going up the levels, the words are merely synonymous to each other, but with less popularity than the words in earlier levels. As for the four nouns in each verb, they are decided through collocates that give a sort of favored sense to specific verbs.
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