Based on the given materials, the article as well as the lecture discusses amazing behaviors of one of the most captivating members of nature, elephants, which live in herd. The author states that there are several viable beliefs regarding these behaviors. That being said, the lecture provides several ideas to repudiate this claim.
Initially, the writer says that elephants can be aware of their death; it has been recorded that old elephants start to leave their herds and prepare to die near water areas, named "elephant graveyard". However, the speaker explains that some physical changes have been seen among old elephants, like their teethes, which make their chewing processes difficult. Thus, the old elephants should eat softer vegetables which can be found near water. It can be concluded that "elephant graveyard" is not owed to being aware of death.
Second, the author proclaims that elephants have artistic abilities which make them able to paint on a canvas by holding paintbrushes in their trunks. Yet again, the lecturer underscores that humans have trained these animals by stroking their ears, which are counted as sensitive parts of their bodies. So, elephants remember the patterns whenever they got stroked, and they were encouraged for repeating the patterns by touching their ears. It can be inferred that these animals do not know about what they paint, and do not distinguish between lines of butterfly or anything else.
The final point of contention between the reading and the listening passage is elephants' reactions to mice. The writer brings evidences of Pilny the Elder and thinks that although mice are not as harmful as other big mammals like lions to elephants, there have been seen escaping of elephants whenever they were confronted with mice. On the other hand, the speaker explains that this phenomenon occurs just because mice are not familiar to elephants; escaping from unknown creatures is a natural instinct behavior among animals. These escaping are not seen among elephants existing in the zoo, owing to the fact that they know that the mice are not counted as a threat.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, regarding, second, so, thus, well, as to, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1806.0 1373.03311258 132% => OK
No of words: 345.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2347826087 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62650283043 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550724637681 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 419.366225166 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.5014529683 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.4 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.93333333333 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192077117393 0.272083759551 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0630446647938 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0451215461977 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105634955395 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0485257489342 0.0443174109184 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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