The reading and the lecture are both about the surprising behaviors of elephants. The author of the reading believes that the some abilities are inherent in this giant mammals. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks those beliefs are all misunderstanding.
First of all, the author points out that elephants know their time of dying. It is mentioned that the old elephants always leave their herd and go to some places near water to die alone, which are so called 'elephant graveyards'. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says the reason that elder elephants depart from their herd is because they worn out their teeth and lose the ability of chewing. They have no choice but to move to the place where they can find soft vegetation to eat.
Secondly, the author contends that they are able to paint recognizable things. The article notes that they can use trunk to hold the brush and make the drawing of flower and even themselves. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests this faculty is due to training by humans. She elaborates on this by mentioning that people strike elephants' ears which are very sensitive to force them to remember certain patterns of paintbrush and then encourage them to repeat some actions by touching their ears.
Finally, the author states that they are scared of mice. The article establishes that a recent experiment shows elephants retreat each time when the mice show up in their sight. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the explanation is those elephants are unfamiliar with mice. She puts forth the idea that in some places where mice are common, elephants show no fear to them, such as zoo.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 127, Rule ID: THE_SOME_DAY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'same'?
Suggestion: same
...author of the reading believes that the some abilities are inherent in this giant ma...
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Line 1, column 178, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ies are inherent in this giant mammals. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, second, secondly, so, then, such as, first of all, on the other hand
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 : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1405.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84482758621 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44088491 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568965517241 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 419.366225166 101% => 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.6918461368 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.0555555556 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1111111111 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94444444444 7.06452816374 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.48 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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