The reading and the lecture are both about modified trees. The author of the reading believes that these trees are beneficial. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article because she thinks it has more cons than pros.
To begin with, the article points out that genetically modified tree has more chance to survive in nature. It is mentioned that they are resistant to infections that kill unmodified trees of papaya. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She supposes that even though they are resistant to infection these trees cannot be survived during the climate change. Moreover, she adds that natural trees in contrast to them have greater chance to stay alive.
Secondly, the article contends that growing such trees would increase economy’s profit because they are growing faster and their yields give more fruits. The lecturer rebuts this argument because the company that supplies with genetically modified trees sell seeds that cost more expensive than natural seeds. Apart from that, she says a farmer cannot plant modified seeds for free because of the law and, hence, they pay extra money.
Finally, the article states that another advantage of these trees is that it is possible to recover areas that were damaged due to the fire and another obstacle. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that it is completely bad idea because modified trees would replace natural one with the fact that they are aggressive. In addition, they would take all of the natural recourses needed for natural trees like the sun, water and etc.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 351, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ggressive. In addition, they would take all of the natural recourses needed for natural tr...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 425, Rule ID: AND_ETC[1]
Message: Use simply 'etc.'.
Suggestion: etc.
...d for natural trees like the sun, water and etc.
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 433, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tural trees like the sun, water and etc.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, apart from, in addition, in contrast, in contrast to, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1317.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04597701149 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29269930533 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55938697318 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.4372945124 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0714285714 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6428571429 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5714285714 7.06452816374 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.390403622209 0.272083759551 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129266872257 0.0996497079465 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0623920054612 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22551249949 0.162205337803 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.069947969118 0.0443174109184 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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