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TPO 15 - Question 3
University Should Pave Running Trails
The university has about three miles of unpaved dirt running trails that pass through the forest near campus. I think these trails should be paved with cement. One reason for paving the trails would be to increase their safety. When it rains, the dirt turns to mud and becomes very slippery, so the runners who use them can slip and fall. Pavement would solve this problem. Also, paving would make the trails look nicer, which would encourage students to use them. Bumps in the trail would be smoothed out and weeds would be paved over, making the trail more attractive to runners.
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| 2018-10-14 | yuantuantuan | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2017-09-23 | Maryabb | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-08 | ali rouhani | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-21 | mgrajapt | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 694.0 593.389002037 117% => OK
No of words: 178.0 154.784114053 115% => OK
Chars per words: 3.89887640449 3.82920900774 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65262427087 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84235403776 1.81998168104 101% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 93.7942973523 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601123595506 0.608046397892 99% => OK
Syllable count: 218.7 185.724439919 118% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0742577623474 0.0833886788687 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 59.3333333333 71.3690273242 83% => OK
STD paragraph length: 43.7442059655 24.1299301424 181% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.1166666667 26.8388033085 71% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.4178643718 8.89323425527 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 40.266802444 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.35714285714 4.20756893501 151% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.33704688836 3.23972648638 196% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.96714285714 1.51236819293 130% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.56395756506 1.0352206224 151% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 37.9022403259 79% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.89 7.22384928717 68% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.163 0.193825474362 84% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.141259807919 0.16431695912 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.83 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.274325842697 0.304040633073 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.153936531156 0.193491353168 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.22 6.97134419552 61% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.51 3.21433808554 47% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.35 59.1375356415 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.955833333333 0.985625594026 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.52310374891 0.643888735843 81% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.1037489102 2.61565628039 119% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.86573670445 1.58604529434 118% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.19127585501 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.389078410112 0.322651457988 121% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.