| Examples | Sentences | Crashes | Derivations |
| 1 | Tom saw Fred. | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Tom read a book. (Chomsky 2015:10) | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | He thinks that John read the book. | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Mary arrived. | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | Tom will read a book. | 3 | 2 |
| 6 | The book was read. | 7 | 9 |
| 7 | John expects Mary to arrive. | 16 | 5 |
| 8 | Mary thinks that Sue will buy the book. (Pesetsky & Torrego 2001:357, originally from Stowell 1981) | 5 | 2 |
| 9 | She was reading a book. | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | She had read a book. | 3 | 2 |
| 11 | She has been reading a book. | 5 | 4 |
| 12 | She will have been reading a book. | 9 | 8 |
| 13 | The book was being read. | 15 | 17 |
| 14 | The book had been being read. | 31 | 33 |
| 15 | The book will have been being read. | 63 | 65 |