The article and the lecture are about three theories that presumably define how agnostids, which were a group of marine animals, behave and what type of food they ate. The author in the passage believes that there is enough evidence that support these hypotheses. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the statements made by the author. She considers that these theories present weakness by providing some explanations.
First, the author claims that agnostids presented some features which are specific of predators. Therefore, the article considers them to eat by hunting prey. Nevertheless, this hypothesis is challenged by the lecturer who posits that one essential characteristic of predators in the open-ocean is well-developed eyes. It means that agnostids must have presented a great vision, but they must not. In fact, they did not present any other sense that helped them to find preys.
Second, the article states that these animals may have lived in the seafloor due to the presence of other types of primitive arthropods in those environments. Nonetheless, the lecturer discredits this idea by clarifying that most of these primitive arthropods did not have the ability to move fast. Consequently, they stayed in the same area as fossil remains support this hypothesis. In spite of this, the presence of agnostids was notorious in other distant sites which means that they could move faster than others.
Finally, the author mentions that another theory is that agnostids were parasites and lived and fed off larger organisms. The lecturer, on the other hand, puts forth the idea that due to competition between populations of parasites, none of them were large. Furthermore, she points out that several fossil remains of individuals agnostids have been found which clearly means that they ruled up a specific territory, and consequently, they could not be parasites as the author mentioned.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, therefore, well, in fact, in spite of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1604.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29372937294 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80043845365 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551155115512 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 419.366225166 118% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.9334991066 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.25 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9375 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0625 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229273150324 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0685742400461 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.044743895863 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134153298974 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0375516873345 0.0443174109184 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 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.