R. robustus
According to the reading, psittacosaur dinosaur's remains have been identified in the stomach of the 150-million-year old fossil remains of a mammal known as R. robustus. The reading claims that the R.robustus was not an active hunter and it must have been a scavenger that sometimes ate unhatched dinosaurs from eggs. However, on the other hand, the lecturer disputes this hypothesis. She casts doubts on the main points of the reading based on three reasons.
First, the reading states that R. robustus are smaller in size than the psittacosaurs. As a consequence, the R. robustus could not have hunted a bigger animal than them. In contrary, the lecturer disagrees with this opinion. She points out that the R. robustus could have hunted the baby dinosaurs as they were of comparable size of the mammal. Further, she adds that the mammal is twice the mass of the baby dinosaurs in the fetus.
Second, the reading notes that R.robustus is much more suitable for scavenging rather than hunting. It uses the fact that the mammal had short and oddly positioned legs that could have restricted it to move fast. To prove this assumption wrong, the lecturer uses the example of the modern day mammal "tasmanian devil" which also has similar features to R. robustus but has the capacity to run at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour. Moreover, she mentions that the tasmanian devil can act quickly and is a successful hunter.
Finally, the reading claims that the dinosaur bones that were identified inside the mammal's stomach did not have teeth marks of the mammal. The reading uses this evidence to support the idea that R.robustus must have eaten unguarded dinosaur eggs in the nest whearas the lecturer denies this claim. She suggests that R. robustus had powerful jaws that enabled it to swallow the prey in large or whole pieces. She points out that this is the reason why there were no teeth marks on the dinosaur's bones found in the mammal's stomach.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 48, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: smaller
...the reading states that R. robustus are smaller in size than the psittacosaurs. As a consequenc...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => 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: 1636.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 333.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91291291291 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60511851906 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510510510511 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 486.9 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.5908142951 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 74.3636363636 110.228320801 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.1363636364 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.59090909091 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268214849375 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0832324444787 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114353026477 0.0662205650399 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189483210587 0.162205337803 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0448703179338 0.0443174109184 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.3589403974 70% => 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: 10.61 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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