| 指标 | 标签 | 示例 |
| 从句复杂度指标示例: | ||
| 状语从句均数 | Adverbial clauses per clause | This experience made me frightened [when I saw the knives]. |
| 状语修饰语均数 | adverbial modifiers per clause | [Fortunately], it did not matter. |
| 子句补语数量均数 | clausal complements per clause | I am sure [that I had a happy summer holiday]. |
| 存现句均数 | existential “there” per clause | [There] were a lot of birds. |
| 短语复杂度指标示例: | ||
| 名词中从属结构数量 | Dependents per nominal | [Two months of ] summer holiday passed in a flash. |
| 名词中限定词数量 | Determiners per nominal | I think we should find [the] beauty from [the] life that we live. |
| 形容词修饰语 | Adjectival modifiers per nominal | Our summer holiday is a [special] time for us to learn some [new] things. |
| 介词修饰语 | Prepositions per nominal | The experience of cooking [in person] was hard and beautiful. |
| 所有格修饰语 | Possessives per nominal | Last summer holiday, i did [my] homework and read books. |
| 动词修饰语 | Verbal modifiers per nominal | I always felt a ripple of delight [running through me]. |
| 名词作定语 | Noun as nominal | [summer] vacation |
| 关系从句修饰语 | Relative clause modifiers per nominal | Let’s learn a new skill [which can boost the personal growth]. |