Based on the given materials, the article as well as the lecture discusses a fossil skeleton of Sinosauropteryx, which is a preserved dinosaur in China in 1996, and some researchers have seen several lines which make the researchers thinking about whether the dinosaur had feathers or not. The author states that there are several viable theories shows that these lines are not places of former feathers. That being said, the lecturer provides several ideas to repudiate this claim.
Initially, the author says that the lines had been remained after the Sinosauropteryx's body buried in volcanic ash and its skin decomposed into fibers. However, the lecturer explains that there were not seen any such decomposed body of other animals, and also the dinosaur's functional skin structure was completely preserved in volcanic ash. So, this functional structure, played a role as the feather.
Second, the writer proclaims that many dinosaurs had some fan-shaped structures, called frills; some researchers say that these fine lines might be remaining parts of frills, not feathers. Yet again, the speaker underscores some chemical differences between frills and feathers. Feathers, as opposite to frills, contain some proteins, named Beta-keratin. By doing chemical analysis on the dinosaur's fossil, paleontologists found several amounts of Beta-keratin, which shows that the lines are related to the feathers.
The final point of contention between the reading and the listening passage is function of the feathers in such animals. The author thinks that, because of locating lines at the backbone area, the possible feathers might be useless for flight and districted effects for regulating temperature of their body. On the other hand, the speaker explains that feathers in animals not only have flighting functions but also display functions, like some species of birds which use their colorful feathers to attract mates. In addition, based on some researches on color, the dinosaur's feathers might be orange and white, which increase the possibility of using for display functions.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 390, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'dinosaurs'' or 'dinosaur's'?
Suggestion: dinosaurs'; dinosaur's
...atin. By doing chemical analysis on the dinosaurs fossil, paleontologists found several a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, well, as to, in addition, as well as, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1765.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 322.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48136645963 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7941216602 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55900621118 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 533.7 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.7897430258 49.2860985944 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.071428571 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.197795605996 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0619413287788 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062360335972 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119870751564 0.162205337803 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0506961134075 0.0443174109184 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.58 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 63.6247240618 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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