The reading and the lecture are both about the Moai Easter Island. The author of the reading believes that the construction of Moai statues led to the collapse of civilization located there. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that the society on the island did not suffer as a result of the construction of Moai.
First of all, the author claims that people of the island cut down vast amounts of valuable trees in order to build the statues. He notes that the Moai were moved across the island using wooden tracks and log riders. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says recent research notes that people of the island did not cut down trees to move the Moais. Furthermore, she points out that instead of wooden tracks and log riders they transported the statues by tilting side to side using ropes.
Secondly, the author states deforestation resulted in soil erosions. He argues without trees there were no migratory birds to visit and the people had no food to feed themselves. This argument is rebutted by the lecturer. She suggests that recent studies show easter island’s palm seeds were destroyed by rats. She elaborated by mentioning first settlers of the easter island came with rats as diet, and that they were the main cause of deforestation on the island.
Finally, the author mentions that the problems described above eventually led to a major population collapse. He is of the opinion that easter island fell from high twenty thousand to a low two thousand people when European explorers first came in the eighteenth century. The lecturer, on the other hand, feels that the high twenty thousand people was just a guess. She puts forth the idea that easter island’s highest population was two thousand, and there was not enough time to be in a population of twenty thousand because the first settlers arrived in 1200 A.D.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 192, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...collapse of civilization located there. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
^^^
Line 7, column 567, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the first settlers arrived in 1200 A.D.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, second, secondly, so, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1573.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 324.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8549382716 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47176364792 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496913580247 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 460.8 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.340239865 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.3888888889 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17471737351 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562154614603 0.0996497079465 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0613711635803 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11023383872 0.162205337803 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0448348770923 0.0443174109184 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 53.8541721854 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 11.0289183223 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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