The reading and the listening passages are both about Chaco Canyon in New Mexico which is massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms. While the reading passage provides three theories explaining what is the building used for, the listening contends that these theories are not convincing.
First of all, the reading passage mentions that the building is used for residential. This is mainly because it is similar to apartment buildings at Taos New Mexico, in which many people live there. However, the lecturer contends that yes it is true that it looks like a native American house, but a house that hundreds of people live in needs many fireplaces for cooking, and there were only a few of them in the building.
Secondly, the author claims that the used the building for storing food such as maize. Also, the size of the house looks suitable for storing. On the other hand, the lecturer states that this theory is not supportive, and if they use it for storing maize, they left some containers or maize behind but there is nothing. Thus, this theory is not supported.
Thirdly, the writer mentions that they used it as a ceremonial center. Similar to Pueblo Alto which is a ceremonial center that native American used to celebrate and eats and they leave behind some pots as well as food. The professor casts doubt on this theory by saying this is not supported because Pueblo Alto contains not only broken pots but also other constructed materials suggested that this is a trash field. Therefore, this theory is not supported.
To conclude, the lecturer debunks each theory that the author provided.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, well, while, such as, as well as, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1353.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41265533907 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509090909091 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 410.4 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.0404503562 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.6428571429 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6428571429 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.0714285714 7.06452816374 171% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.359872796876 0.272083759551 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121510068643 0.0996497079465 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043638043082 0.0662205650399 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182252528946 0.162205337803 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0735899919129 0.0443174109184 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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