The passage doubts that pterosaurs can fly by flapping their wings by proposing three arguments. Unfortunately, all of these arguments are contradicted by the lecture.
Firstly, the lecturer argues that pterosaurs are capable of energy supply. In the article, pterosaurs are assumed to be cool-blooded reptiles whose low metabolism is unable to produce enough energy, whereas the lecture rejects this idea by pointing out that their dense-hair-like covering implies that they are warm-blooded, revealing that they possess a high metabolism, therefore they can generate sufficient energy.
Secondly, the speaker asserts that pterosaurs are able to keep airborne. As shown in the passage, a pterosaur is as large as a giraffe so that it is not allowed to flap its wings fast. Conversely, the lecture introduces the fact that the weight reduced by its hollow bones are indeed light enough to enable it to stay aloft.
Thirdly, the lecture opposes the passage's view that its minute hind leg muscles are incapable of running fast to take off the ground by contending that unlike birds who launch by using two back legs, pterosaurs use four strong limbs to push from the ground in order to launch into the air.
In short, all the assumptions made by the passage are refuted by the specific reasons in the lecture, which suggests that these reptiles are likely to be powered-flight animals.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, whereas, in short
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 0.0 7.30242825607 0% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1170.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 226.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17699115044 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87727950738 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80600756235 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615044247788 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 362.7 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 94.3209650313 49.2860985944 191% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.0 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1111111111 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8888888889 7.06452816374 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.326752257082 0.272083759551 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117055241668 0.0996497079465 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514061019922 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15369839452 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0240687265546 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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