Table 9 Illustration of dependency distance calculation example with more promotional language.

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

Word

Position

Governor

Relation Description

Distance

She

1

is

subject

1

is

2

-

root node

-

in

3

is

prepositional phrase

marker

1

the

4

classroom

determiner

2

fantastic

5

classroom

adjective modifier

1

classroom

6

in

object of preposition

3