Both the lecture and the passage is about function of carved stone balls which were found in Scotland. The passage mentiones three purposes of stone balls, while, the professor castes doubt on every single purpose by asserting some evidence.
To begin with, the reading calims that these stones were used as weapons. As, stones have holes or grooves indicating possibility to swing them, these stone could be weapons. In the contrary, the speaker rebutes this claim by stating that if these stone were used as weapon it should probably were broken or damaged while there were not. Thus, these stone were not used for hunting or fighting.
In addition, the passage declares that these stone were used for measuring wight, because the size of stones were unifrom. In the opposition, the professor indicats that the balls were made of different stones which had different density. Balls in same size which made from different stone have different wight, therefor, they would not be aplicable for measuring wight.
Finally, the writer alludes that balls have elaborate designs which makes it possible that they were used for prominent social status. While, the professor reject this idea pointing out that if they were used for presenting status, they would bury in their owner graves. But, no balls have fund in graves, thus, they did not serve this function.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, if, so, thus, while, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1136.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 224.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07142857143 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.19532129465 2.5805825403 85% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.549107142857 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 353.7 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.2815492045 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.6666666667 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6666666667 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08333333333 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.451756851034 0.272083759551 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.191081138731 0.0996497079465 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520495451438 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271419273639 0.162205337803 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0109057494565 0.0443174109184 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 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: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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