In the given set of materials, the main topic is that whether a particular fossil skeleton maintained in China volcanic ash, called Sinosauropteryx, had feathers or not. While the author has focused on those points to deny evidence of this claim, the speaker in the follow-up material challenged them in a number of ways.
The first point in the article is that due to not well-preserved structure of this dinosaur, the line was releted to the decomposition of skin fibers after its death. However, this was questioned by the lecturer as she stated that based on examination of other fossils at the same site and it well-preserved condition, it was clearly revealed that it was feathers decomposition, not skin fibers.
Moreover, according to the essay, scientists argued that the lines of Sinosauropteryx might be the remnant of the frills, a fan-shaped structure, not feathers. Nonetheless, the speaker has discussed that the feathers, unlike the frills, contained a specific kind of protein which was as indicator for distinguishing them.
Last but not least, the writer has mentioned that since the futile location of feathers at backbone and tails, not facilitated flight nor thermoregulation, it might not be feathers. Conversely, according to the lecturer, colorful feathers of this dinosaur served other means like displaying.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'conversely', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'well', 'while', 'kind of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.25 0.261695866417 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.141666666667 0.158904122519 89% => OK
Adjectives: 0.075 0.0723426182421 104% => OK
Adverbs: 0.05 0.0435111971325 115% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0333333333333 0.0277247811725 120% => OK
Prepositions: 0.154166666667 0.128828473217 120% => OK
Participles: 0.0625 0.0370669169778 169% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.21627558245 2.5805825403 125% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0208333333333 0.0208969081088 100% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.125 0.128158765124 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00833333333333 0.0158828679856 52% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00416666666667 0.0114777025283 36% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1348.0 1645.83664459 82% => OK
No of words: 212.0 271.125827815 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.35849056604 6.08160592843 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81578560438 4.04852973271 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.391509433962 0.374372842146 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.306603773585 0.287516216867 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.245283018868 0.187439937562 131% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.169811320755 0.113142543107 150% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21627558245 2.5805825403 125% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.617924528302 0.539623497131 115% => OK
Word variations: 62.2445263377 53.8517498576 116% => OK
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0529801325 61% => OK
Sentence length: 26.5 21.7502111507 122% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.7822829044 49.3711431718 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 168.5 132.220823453 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5 21.7502111507 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.25 0.878197800319 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 57.1603773585 50.5018328374 113% => OK
Elegance: 2.07407407407 1.90840788429 109% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.704957067919 0.549887131256 128% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.167434233803 0.142949733639 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0713955015521 0.0787303798458 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.754689220986 0.631733273073 119% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0885133464344 0.139662658121 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.405352397716 0.266732575781 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113150099242 0.103435571967 109% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.385132269025 0.414875509568 93% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0362809861326 0.0530846634433 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.505708965634 0.40443939384 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0851618088397 0.0528353158467 161% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.26048565121 47% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 3.49668874172 86% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.62251655629 83% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.1766004415 31% => OK
Total topic words: 7.0 10.2958057395 68% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.