TPO 15 - Question 3
University Should Pave Running Trails
The university has about three miles of unpaved dirt running trails that pass through the forest near campus. I think these trails should be paved with cement. One reason for paving the trails would be to increase their safety. When it rains, the dirt turns to mud and becomes very slippery, so the runners who use them can slip and fall. Pavement would solve this problem. Also, paving would make the trails look nicer, which would encourage students to use them. Bumps in the trail would be smoothed out and weeds would be paved over, making the trail more attractive to runners.
1. Hey, Ted, you are a runner.
2. Did you see this letter in the paper?
3. Yeah, I did, and I used those.
4. And?
5. I think it's a terrible idea.
6. How come?
7. Well, she really hasn't thought it through, like the thing about making them safer.
8. What she is not thinking about is the long-term consequences of running on a hard surface.
9. What do you mean?
10. I mean it's not good for you.
11. It's too hard on your bones and joints.
12. If you run repeatedly on a hard surface, it can lead to injuries, or that's what I've been taught anyway.
13. It's better to run on a soft surface.
14. It does less damage to your body.
15. Oh, I wasn't aware of that.
16. Yeah, so actually it wouldn't be safer.
17. And her second point.
18. About changing the way they look?
19. Yeah, I don't think people will like it.
20. So they'd use them less?
21. Yeah, I mean one of the main reasons people enjoy them now is it's a way of taking a break from the rest of campus, from building and streets and stuff.
22. It's, you know, a chance to feel like you are out in nature.
23. Oh, so you wouldn't get that effect anymore.
24. Right, it'd be just like you are on a regular street or sidewalk.
25. It wouldn't be as relaxing.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 538.0 593.389002037 91% => OK
No of words: 136.0 154.784114053 88% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.95588235294 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.41495297035 3.52088357496 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.12086153089 1.81998168104 117% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 93.7942973523 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.661764705882 0.608046397892 109% => OK
Syllable count: 168.3 185.724439919 91% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0436334310744 0.0833886788687 52% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 45.3333333333 71.3690273242 64% => OK
STD paragraph length: 10.2740233383 24.1299301424 43% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.1066666667 26.8388033085 56% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.46348892817 8.89323425527 39% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 23.0 40.266802444 57% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.91304347826 4.20756893501 141% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.16938159817 3.23972648638 129% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.87260869565 1.51236819293 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.11079766635 1.0352206224 107% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 37.9022403259 50% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.53 7.22384928717 63% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.238421052632 0.193825474362 123% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.205381881994 0.16431695912 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.13 46.6644602851 75% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.258308823529 0.304040633073 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.139924113609 0.193491353168 72% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.88594704684 45% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.54 6.97134419552 36% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.03 3.21433808554 125% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.32 59.1375356415 77% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.755333333333 0.985625594026 77% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.419240953222 0.643888735843 65% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.00088261253 2.61565628039 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.98587819947 1.58604529434 125% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.56191289496 2.01333574461 127% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.238118455882 0.322651457988 74% => OK
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.