Agnostides
According to the reading, Agnostides were a group of marine animals that disappeared in the past. However, after finding fossil information, we know that the groups are the ancestor of insects, but, we cannot reveal their properties such as diet and behavior. The author said that there several hypotheses to explain this. However, the professor in the lecture gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author's point.
First of all, the professor in the listening argues that it is untrue that the agnostids were free-swimming predators. The reading said that it is agnostids were active in the ocean and small, so, they could be easy to capture organisms. However, since they did not have developed eyes, they were difficult to catch their prey. Therefore, for being good predators, they had to have special features. there is no evidence for them to have the characteristic. This casts doubt on the reading passage's claim that they were powerful predators due to their abilities and body sizes.
Second, the professor in the listening contends that the agnostids did not reside on the seafloor. The reading said that specimens of other primitive arthropods suggest that the species also did well. However, scientists found its fossil in the many areas, which means that agnostids are not good at dwelling in the sea, just moving fast caused by sea flows. This refutes the reading passage's claim that agnostids served on the seafloor on the basis of other agnostids.
Third, the professor in the listening insists that at that time. there did not exist plenty of parasites. The reading said that agnostids have shacked on other animals. However, since parasites tend to kill off a lot of organisms, impossible it is for anthropods to live on the animals. Also, unlike the hypothesis, there were a lot of arthropods. This counters the reading passage's claim that it is unlikely for agnostids to be parasites.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 401, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
...ors, they had to have special features. there is no evidence for them to have the cha...
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Line 9, column 8, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...bilities and body sizes. Second, the professor in the listening contends ...
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Line 13, column 66, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
...he listening insists that at that time. there did not exist plenty of parasites. The ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, well, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => 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: 1614.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 317.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09148264984 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64093063587 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507886435331 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 487.8 419.366225166 116% => 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.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.6644911533 49.2860985944 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.7 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.85 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.4 7.06452816374 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261335106767 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0899707438549 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11258713438 0.0662205650399 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172151721462 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0657946177039 0.0443174109184 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 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.