R Robustus

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R. Robustus

Submitted by KPhogat on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 19:28

The passage reading suggests that R. Robustus was a scavenger and not an active hunter of Psittacosaur Dinosaur. However, speaker in the lecture refutes this claim and gives the following reasons to implicate that R. Robustus was indeed an active hunter.

First, according to the passage, R. Robustus was small and may not have been able to actively hunt Psittacosaur Dinosaur which was much bigger than itself. However, the speaker in the lecture says that R. Robustus may have hunted small babies or not yet fully grown Psittaco saurs. So the evidence of small size of R. Robustus in itself does not prove that it was not an active hunter.

Second. the passage states that the legs of R. Robustus were short and were positioned out to the side rather than directly underneath it and so was more suited for scavenging than hunting. On the other hand, according to the lecture there is an animal in modern time that has similar legs but is an active hunter and so it is quite possible that R. Robustus was an active hunter too of Psittacosaurs.

Third, the passage mentioned that R. Robustus may have swallowed an egg with the small psittacosaur inside as there were no teeth marks on the bones of the animal that was eaten. To counter this statement, the speaker suggests that the R. Robustus indeed used to swallow the meat instead of chewing it as its back teeth showed no signs of chewing.

So, according to the lecture, R. Robustus may have very well been an active hunter as it shows all the signs of it. The points made in the passage about the R. Robustus being a scavenger are refuted by the speaker and has instead supported the idea that R. Robustus was an active hunter.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 9, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, may, second, so, third, well, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1398.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67558528428 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40315374643 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.451505016722 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 431.1 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 13.0662251656 176% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.2988645656 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 60.7826086957 110.228320801 55% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 13.0 21.698381199 60% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 2.95652173913 7.06452816374 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.27373068433 281% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.337524589139 0.272083759551 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121572285445 0.0996497079465 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123252701008 0.0662205650399 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.242924813947 0.162205337803 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0535504232694 0.0443174109184 121% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.1 13.3589403974 53% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 75.2 53.8541721854 140% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.0 11.0289183223 54% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 8.98 12.2367328918 73% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.66 8.42419426049 79% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 63.6247240618 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 4.0 10.7273730684 37% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.2008830022 62% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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