Both the reading passage and lecture discuss about existence of bees 200 million years ago. In spite of discovery of bee nests like fossil structures, the author remains skeptical and presents some arguments refuting existence of bees that long ago. However, the professor challenges these points by providing several counter arguments.
To begin with, the author brings up the fact that earliest fossil of bees is 100 million years old which does not support the existence of bees 200 millions years ago. By contrast, the lecturer asserts that it is possible that bees might exist but not preserved due to absence of right kind of tree razins at that time.
Secondly, the author posits that bees and flowering plants have a mutually dependent biological relationship and as flowering plants appeared only 125 million years ago, it is highly unlikely that bees existed before that time. On the other hand, the lecturer argues that bees at that time might not have different source of food like non-flowering plants and they were not necessarily dependent on flowering plants.
Finally, the author depicts that fossilized structures of 200 million years ago lack some details which invalidates the assumption that it was created by bees. The professor agrees that discovered nests does not have spiral pattern caps like modern bee nests. But she also brings up the chemical evidence which states that special chemical components have been found in the fossilized structures similar to modern bee nests which protect bee nests against water. According to the lecturer, this supports the hypotheses that fossilized structures were created by bees which existed 200 years ago.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, kind of, in spite of, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1413.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25278810409 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49336816094 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531598513011 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 416.7 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6844432094 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.454545455 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4545454545 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.90909090909 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.441098902197 0.272083759551 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.180827001978 0.0996497079465 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120785118032 0.0662205650399 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.277457127031 0.162205337803 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0906359114339 0.0443174109184 205% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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