Focus word decomposition of an example question, suggesting the question is primarily about measuring the speed of walking, and not about turtles or paths. (Correct answer: “a stopwatch and meter stick.”) For a given word: Conc refers to the psycholinguistic concreteness score, Tag refers to the focus word category (FOCUS signifies a focus word, EX an example word, ATYPE an answer-type word, and ST a stop word), Score refers to the focus word score, and Weight refers to the normalized focus word scores.
| Words | What | tools | could | determine | the | speed | of | turtles | walking | along | a | path ? |
| Conc | 2.0A | 4.6C | 1.3A | 2.1A | 1.4A | 3.6 | 1.7A | 5.0C | 4.1 | 2.1A | 1.5A | 4.4C |
| Tag | ST | ATYPE | ST | ST | ST | FOCUS | ST | EX | FOCUS | ST | ST | EX |
| Score | – | 1 | – | – | – | 14 | – | 2 | 14 | – | – | 3 |
| Weight | – | 0.03 | – | – | – | 0.41 | – | 0.06 | 0.41 | – | – | 0.09 |
| Words | What | tools | could | determine | the | speed | of | turtles | walking | along | a | path ? |
| Conc | 2.0A | 4.6C | 1.3A | 2.1A | 1.4A | 3.6 | 1.7A | 5.0C | 4.1 | 2.1A | 1.5A | 4.4C |
| Tag | ST | ATYPE | ST | ST | ST | FOCUS | ST | EX | FOCUS | ST | ST | EX |
| Score | – | 1 | – | – | – | 14 | – | 2 | 14 | – | – | 3 |
| Weight | – | 0.03 | – | – | – | 0.41 | – | 0.06 | 0.41 | – | – | 0.09 |