Hey, thanks for your reply. This is not experimental data, it is corpus data (5000 sentences) so the variable Participants does not refer to subjects in an experiment but whether a verb is Transitive (2 participants) or Intransitive (1 participant). I’m using a certain theory that uses that term in that way. I’m looking at causative constructions such as “she let me use her book” and “she made me use her book”. So the grouping variable here is Verb (the embedded verb in each data point/ sentence) as the same verb can appear in multiple observations (I let her eat the pizza; I made them eat the vegetables; She let me eat some of her dessert; etc).
So with this new information, the correct syntax is still: (1+AnimacyObj+Participants|Verb)+ (1+Address)?
Thanks again!