--- license: cc-by-4.0 --- Data for the study were collected from the 5 largest and most active communities of the VKontakte social network, dedicated to local city news and events in a town with a population of less than 100 thousand in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. The number of subscribers in these social media communities varies from 12 to 43 thousand. A total of 662881 comments were collected. The Trager coefficient was calculated by dividing the number of verbs by the number of adjectives in each comment. These values were averaged for each day, thus forming the final dataset.