Animacy | Morphology | Position | Count |
---|---|---|---|
inanimate | accusative | noninitial | 89 |
inanimate | accusative | initial | 4 |
inanimate | nominative | noninitial | 8 |
inanimate | nominative | initial | 13 |
inanimate | ambiguous | noninitial | 99 |
inanimate | ambiguous | initial | 52 |
animate | accusative | noninitial | 22 |
animate | accusative | initial | 7 |
animate | nominative | noninitial | 8 |
animate | nominative | initial | 16 |
animate | ambiguous | noninitial | 39 |
animate | ambiguous | initial | 86 |
Count represents the number of “trials.” The extreme lack of balance reflects natural language statistics and can only be appropriately modeled by methods using variance pooling, such as LMMs.