The lecture and passage both discuss the aim and meaning of the carved stones. The passage claims that the purposes of these artifacts are hunting and fighting, weighing and measuring, or social purpose. In contrast, the lecture refutes this and states that these three possibilities are not convincing. The professor provides three reasons to refute each author's reasons.
The passage and lecture mainly discuss weapon theory. The reading points out that these carved stones were mainly used for hunting and fighting. However, the professor indicates that other weapons that were used in Neolithic period have sign of wearing, but these carved stones are remained very well. She states that although some of these carved stones have crack on them, they preserved very well. As result, this carved stones were not used as weapons.
Furthermore, lecture and reading considers weighting and measuring theory. The passage posits that these carved stones were employed to measure grain or other goods. On the other hand, the professor denies this point and explains that even though these carved stones have same size, they have different mass. As she say, these carved stones were made from different stone with different mass. The stone have same size, but different mass. Thus, these stone were not used for measuring purpose.
Last but not least, the social aim of these carved stones is another theory that is considered by professor and passage. The passage indicates that these stones shown the social class. In contrast, the professor rejected this by explaining that it is unlikely that these stones were used as social marker. Some of these stones are so intricate, while others are very simple. According to the professor, died people had high ranking, but there are not any stones in tomb and grave. As consequence, these stone were not used as social marker.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 55, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...d lecture mainly discuss weapon theory. The reading points out that these carved st...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'in contrast', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232558139535 0.261695866417 89% => OK
Verbs: 0.209302325581 0.158904122519 132% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0610465116279 0.0723426182421 84% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0523255813953 0.0435111971325 120% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0174418604651 0.0277247811725 63% => OK
Prepositions: 0.107558139535 0.128828473217 83% => OK
Participles: 0.0901162790698 0.0370669169778 243% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.2576408235 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Infinitives: 0.00872093023256 0.0208969081088 42% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00290697674419 0.00154638098197 188% => OK
Determiners: 0.125 0.128158765124 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0 0.0158828679856 0% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00581395348837 0.0114777025283 51% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1877.0 1645.83664459 114% => OK
No of words: 304.0 271.125827815 112% => OK
Chars per words: 6.17434210526 6.08160592843 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.04852973271 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.404605263158 0.374372842146 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.256578947368 0.287516216867 89% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.161184210526 0.187439937562 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.105263157895 0.113142543107 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2576408235 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.4375 0.539623497131 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 42.3312089254 53.8517498576 79% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0529801325 161% => OK
Sentence length: 14.4761904762 21.7502111507 67% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.2338579708 49.3711431718 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.380952381 132.220823453 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.4761904762 21.7502111507 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.47619047619 0.878197800319 54% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 40.134085213 50.5018328374 79% => OK
Elegance: 1.54166666667 1.90840788429 81% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.541150339585 0.549887131256 98% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.141362588815 0.142949733639 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.100964033737 0.0787303798458 128% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.505698228994 0.631733273073 80% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.143770645244 0.139662658121 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.214878251828 0.266732575781 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0908031319013 0.103435571967 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.399237966405 0.414875509568 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0388149173956 0.0530846634433 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.403978022521 0.40443939384 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0355462847399 0.0528353158467 67% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.26048565121 235% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 5.0 3.49668874172 143% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.62251655629 166% => OK
Neutral topic words: 10.0 3.1766004415 315% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 10.2958057395 204% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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