The reading and the speaker discuss the migration of Edmontosaurus from Alaska's North Slope to the south from discrepant perspectives. The speaker seems to negate all the ideas that the article has mentioned.
First of all, the author of the reading points out that Edmontosaurus eat plants. Meanwhile, in the winter there is no flora could grow in the north. Therefore, Edmontosaurus migrate to the North to survive. This point is challenged by the speaker. He restates the fact that long time ago the weather in the North Slope was warmer than today. The Sun was shining twenty -four hours per day in the summer. As a result, Edmontosaurus could feed on the abundance of dead plants in the winter. Edmontosaurus did not need to move to the North for food.
Secondly, the author of the reading contends that the skeleton of the Edmontosaurus supports that Edmontosaurus lived in herd. Thus the Edmontosaurus also migrate like many others animals live in herd, such as caribou and buffalo. The speaker rebuts this idea by saying that animals live in herd for various reasons. They could get extra protect from their predators. For example elks also live in herd, but they do not migrate. Therefore, the claim that the author of the reading has mentioned is not convincing in this case.
Finally, the author of the reading states that Edmontosaurus were physically capable of migrating long distances. They could run rapidly about five kilometers per hour for several weeks. The speaker, on the other hand, opposes this point by mentioning that young adults of the Edmontosaurus have not developed yet to run fast as the Edmontosauru adults. Therefore, they have to stay in the places that they were born during winter. Hence, the reason of running fast to migrate in Edmontosaurus is unreasonable.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 128, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ports that Edmontosaurus lived in herd. Thus the Edmontosaurus also migrate like man...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, such as, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => 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: 1504.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 301.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99667774086 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77183149848 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521594684385 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.8721387115 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 71.619047619 110.228320801 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.3333333333 21.698381199 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.95238095238 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.312411203415 0.272083759551 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946882296289 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0564140835206 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185778819152 0.162205337803 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0445275015644 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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