The rest of the players now pick a card from their hands that they think best matches the adjective on the green card.
The remaining 20 portraits and each one's paired trait adjective were entirely novel; participants had not previously seen either the portrait or any trait description matching the trait adjective.
In the syntactic condition, correct sentences were judged as acceptable in 86.0% of the cases when the auditory adjective of Task 2 syntactically matched with the adjective in the sentence, and in 84.9% of the cases when it mismatched.
But the barbed adjectives didn't match the muted performance on display before the Judiciary Committee.
Here, Fry discovered a nomadic tribe whose happy, singing children could match the ancient Greeks in their sophisticated use of verbs, nouns and adjectives.
Adjectives are inflected in two declensions — indefinite and definite — and they must match the noun they modify in gender and number.
When numbers are used as adjectives to describe how many of a noun, the gender of the number may change to match the noun it modifies.
The next day, novel and old portraits were paired with single trait adjectives, the old portraits with a trait adjective matching the previous day's behavior description.
In terms of syntactic relations, half of these adjectives were matching, the other half mismatching to the visual noun and were always mismatching to the critical adjective of the sentence.
In the semantic condition, half of these acoustic adjectives were syntactically matching, the other half syntactically mismatching to both the visually presented noun and adjective of one of the sentences of Task 1.
