The article claims that a species of tree, the yellow cedar, which is common in northwestern North America, have been decreasing and provide three hypotheses for it. In contrast, the professor expresses that these reasons are inadequate, hence he refutes each the author's reasons.
First, the reading states that the yellow cedar decline may be caused by the cedar bark beetle, which is insect parasite. Conversely, the speaker oppose this point by expressing that the yellow cedars tree is much more resistance against this kind of parasite, because the bark of this tree is saturated of poisons, which prevent of be attacked by insect parasites. So, the cedar bark beetle can not be the main cause of the yellow cedar decline.
Second, the passage explains that brown bears may decline the cedar trees, because this kind of animal eats the tree bark, which has higher sugar content. On the contrary, the lecturer refutes this matter by saying that the yellow cedar, which are in the island, have been declining, while there are not any brown bears. Hence, Brown bears can not be responsible for the yellow cedar decrease.
In the third place, the text mentions that change the pattern of seasonal damage roots of the cedar trees. In contrast, the professor explain that the cold weather can damage some trees in high altitude, while overall declines are relates the yellow cedar trees, which are in low elevate.
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Discourse Markers used:
['conversely', 'first', 'hence', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'while', 'in contrast', 'kind of', 'on the contrary', 'in the third place']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.285185185185 0.261695866417 109% => OK
Verbs: 0.140740740741 0.158904122519 89% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0925925925926 0.0723426182421 128% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0259259259259 0.0435111971325 60% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00740740740741 0.0277247811725 27% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.12962962963 0.128828473217 101% => OK
Participles: 0.0333333333333 0.0370669169778 90% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.28228312244 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0 0.0208969081088 0% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.140740740741 0.128158765124 110% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0185185185185 0.0158828679856 117% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0259259259259 0.0114777025283 226% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1424.0 1645.83664459 87% => OK
No of words: 237.0 271.125827815 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.00843881857 6.08160592843 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.04852973271 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.37552742616 0.374372842146 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.240506329114 0.287516216867 84% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.139240506329 0.187439937562 74% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0886075949367 0.113142543107 78% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28228312244 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540084388186 0.539623497131 100% => OK
Word variations: 51.2214851072 53.8517498576 95% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0529801325 77% => OK
Sentence length: 23.7 21.7502111507 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5826582587 49.3711431718 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.4 132.220823453 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7 21.7502111507 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.2 0.878197800319 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 47.7506329114 50.5018328374 95% => OK
Elegance: 2.57446808511 1.90840788429 135% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.774675438443 0.549887131256 141% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.186567550441 0.142949733639 131% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0844261476312 0.0787303798458 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.730105656968 0.631733273073 116% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0812903218436 0.139662658121 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.45303653248 0.266732575781 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103787545816 0.103435571967 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.459766663791 0.414875509568 111% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0845815081151 0.0530846634433 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.58431060028 0.40443939384 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.059228627263 0.0528353158467 112% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.26048565121 94% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 3.49668874172 29% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.62251655629 138% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 3.1766004415 126% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.2958057395 97% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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