TPO 51- strange behaviors of elephants
In the reading, the author claims that there are some viable hypotheses about being strange behaviors of elephants by pointing out 3 reasons for support. However, finding the ideas questionable and implausible, the lecturer totally repudiates the claim and presents some evidence to the contrary.
At first, the author argues that older elephants know when they die. Therefore, the older elephants choose a place near water, which is called elephant graveyards, and alone live until their death. Conversely, the lecturer brings out the idea that the older elephants have trouble with eating different foods. According to her, they use the soft vegetation that has grown near the water due to the easy digestion for them.
In addition, the reading passage holds the view that the elephants paint their trunk on the canvas. They also can draw flowers and other elephants. On the other hands, the lecturer disputes this point by clarifying this fact that the elephants are so sensitive to train. As she mentioned, although they can train the drawing with human, their paints are made with line and other simple things, not intricate works.
Finally, the author asserts that the elephants fear mice as the last point for supporting the issue. The Pliny tested a herd of elephants with (a) several mice and as a result, the herd run away from the mice. The lecturer, though, dismisses it by pointing out that the elephants do not fear from mice. As she stated, the mice are unfamiliar for them. The researchers found that if the elephants grow in an environment which has several mice, they do not have any fear from them because of being familiar with the mice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, finally, first, however, if, so, therefore, in addition, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1394.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99641577061 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43438580483 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559139784946 0.540411800872 103% => OK
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: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.4600251499 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.9333333333 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.167778487005 0.272083759551 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0584177329412 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553518732324 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0995618974025 0.162205337803 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329983432998 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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