Experiments have shown that event knowledge, in terms of the prototypical participants of events and their structured compositions, plays a crucial role in human sentence processing, especially from the perspective of thematic fit: the extent to which humans perceive given event participants as "fitting" given predicate-role combinations (Ferretti et al., 2001;McRae et al., 2005;Bicknell et al., 2010).
computational models of language processing should also consist of event representations that reflect thematic fit.