TPO 33- Task 1
The reading passage states that carved stone balls found in Scotland were made for different purposes and they have meanings and provides three theories to support the claim. The lecturer, however, casts serious doubts on the presented methods and believes that none of these them are very convincing.
First, the passage claims that these stones were weapons used in hunting or fighting because of the presence of the holes and many grooves on the surface, while the professor makes the point that if they were used as a weapon, they have to represent a symptom of use. She says that based on their observations there were no damage or crack. Thus, they cannot be applied as a weapon.
Second, the lecturer asserts that although these carved stone balls are uniform in their size, their masses are entirely divergent. In fact, as they were made of different types of stones, each stone varies in density and is heavier than another. Therefore, they cannot be used for a first weighing system. On the other hand, the passage declares that carved stone balls were implemented as part of a system of weights and measures because of a uniform size.
Third, in contrast to the reading passage which posits that the carved stone balls might have served the important social status of their owner, the professor disagrees and makes the argument that this theory is inconsistent. She comments that they found many carved stones in which some of them are carved intricately, but there are some others with a simple carving design. Moreover, as high ranked people were buried with their positions in the past, they did not find any of these carved stones in their tombs or graves. Consequently, they cannot serve a social purpose.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, third, thus, while, in contrast, in fact, in contrast to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1433.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90753424658 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32560976534 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52397260274 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.4481351955 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.230769231 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4615384615 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3076923077 7.06452816374 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.513525317961 0.272083759551 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.177703005141 0.0996497079465 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104120731224 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.317970159508 0.162205337803 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0634168586129 0.0443174109184 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.