summarize the points made in the lecture about elephants special abilities and behaviors, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading about elephants surprising behaviors.
The reading and the listening are both about the elephants which are amazing creatures. The author believes that there are three astonishing behaviors that elephants have. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. she is of the opinion that none of these beliefs are correct and due to misunderstanding of their behaviors.
To begin with, the author suggests that elephants are able to know that they are
going to die soon. In the article, it is mentioned that once the elephant gets old,
He breaks away from the herd and isolates himself near the water where other elephants are buried there. The lecturer challenges this specific argument by asserting that once the elephants get old, their teeth become very weak and they have difficulty in chewing.
As a result, they need soft vegetation near the water and eventually they die there.
Secondly, the writer argues that elephants are artistic and talented that
can draw and paint objects resembling our world like flowers.
The lecturer, however, rebuts this by claiming that humans can train elephants
to do tricks and also can draw lines and patterns.
In other words, the trainer encourages the elephants
by stroking their ears to remember the pattern and
do it without understanding that these lines represent the object like flowers.
Finally, the author posits that elephants get scared of mice more than other dangerous big animals like lions and tigers
In contrast, the lecturer cast doubt on this by explaining that elephants are not familiar with mice, that is why they react fearfully to mice.
In addition, she states that elephants in the zoo are not scared of mice
since they are familiar with them and they do not consider them dangerous or threatening.
Hence, this belief is based on misinterpretation of their natural instinct.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, in addition, in contrast, as a result, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1546.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15333333333 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60124756394 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536666666667 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 419.366225166 110% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.1924010036 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.428571429 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.28571428571 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 17.0 4.09492273731 415% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239876803968 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0823313384896 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540020581943 0.0662205650399 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0654824888895 0.162205337803 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609297718999 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.