R. Robustus is claimed to be not a hunter but a scavenger in the article, whereas the lecture claims the opposite. Both passages explain three different points that are contrasting each other regarding the mammal’s size, leg anatomy and the absence of teeth marks on its possible preys.
Firstly, the reading supports that R. Robustus could not have hunted psittacosaur dinosaur, whose pieces were found in its stomach, since R. Robustus is so small to hunt and eat such a dinosaur. But the lecture opposes this idea by saying that it could actually have eaten a baby dinosaur or another dinosaur similar to its size easily which would make the mammal a hunter.
The second point the reading makes is that the mammal’s legs are so short which are not centered but to the sides and makes it not possible for it to chase and catch a dinosaur. In the lecture, a contradicting example of Tasmanian Devil is given. It is explained that this animal also has short legs as well but can reach a speed of 15 km/h when chasing its prey and hence is an active predator, which means that having short legs is not a reason for not being a hunter.
The final point is about the absence of teeth marks on the remains of psittacosaur dinosaur in the mammal’s stomach. The article suggests that since there are no teeth marks, the mammal certainly could not have eaten the dinosaour alive. It may only have eaten its eggs as a scavenger. But in the lecture, there is again an explanation to support that this statement does not necessarily have to be valid. In the lecture, it is being claimed that the mammal R. Robustus has strong jaws to grab and hold its prey, so that it does not have to chew it with its teeth. The mammal just swallows the whole prey or eats it in big pieces so that it leaves no teeth marks.
As a result, the reading claims that R. Robustus is not a hunter due to its small size, short legs and absent teeth marks on the remains in its stomach; whereas the lecture opposes to all of these by explaining that a small size and short legs does not necessarily mean that the mammal cannot be a hunter and also there is a chance to hunt without leaving any teeth marks, so R. Robustus can actually be a hunter.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, regarding, second, so, well, whereas, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1836.0 1373.03311258 134% => OK
No of words: 407.0 270.72406181 150% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.51105651106 5.08290768461 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41885621401 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.422604422604 0.540411800872 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 558.0 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.0680208626 49.2860985944 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.6315789474 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4210526316 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.36842105263 7.06452816374 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.171978882276 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0648426700903 0.0996497079465 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0522209596598 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107879844373 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537324730727 0.0443174109184 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.88 12.2367328918 73% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.01 8.42419426049 83% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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