Table 2 Illustration of dependency distance calculation example.

From: The impact of research paradigms on encoding and decoding difficulties of applied linguistics articles

Word

Position

Governor

Relationship Description

Distance

She

1

is

subject

1

is

2

-

root node

-

in

3

is

prepositional phrase

marker

1

the

4

classroom

determiner

1

classroom

5

in

object of preposition

2