Easter island population
The reading passage discusses about the reasons which led to the demise of a civilization on the Easter Island just before 19th century. The lecturer disagrees with the reasons mentioned in the reading and attack the claims made in the reading passage.
First of all, the reading states that one of the reasons of the demise of the civilization is the infestation of rats that were brought by the by the original inhabitants. By eating seeds of the palm trees, these rats created deforestation that in turn eroded soil and food production became difficult. The professor refutes these claims. He says that the human remains that were found on the island suggested that these people were fishers. Seafood contributed about 60% of the diet. Moreover, these people also had the capability to produce crops like potatoe by creating a rock garden with rich soil. Due to these reasons, the lecturer says that the deforestation caused by rats cannot be the reason for this civilization to collapse.
Secondly, the reading suggests that some internal warfare might have happened as per the excavations that suggested usage of thousands of curved small blades called Mata'a. The lecturer challenges this claim. He goes on to say a lot of these weapons were not pointed and sharp. This suggests that these were not weapons but tools used to build houses or statues made from rocks.
Thirdly, the reading mentions that the exposure to the outside world may have been one of the reasons for the decline of the population. The local people on the island would not be immune to the diseases which the outside people carried with them and this may have caused the population to decline. The lecturer undermines this claim. He points out that when the Europeans and South Americans came, the population was just 3000 and recent excavations have shown that the population was 20000 in the 17th century. So, the population decline would have started after the 17th century and the diseases carried by the outside world might not have played any role in the polulation decline.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 137, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'by the'.
Suggestion: by the
...e infestation of rats that were brought by the by the original inhabitants. By eating seeds o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1720.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 347.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95677233429 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48389575919 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487031700288 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 522.9 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4371093186 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.5555555556 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2777777778 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.83333333333 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.142861375021 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0355252954266 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619943503219 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0773445651586 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0649495465714 0.0443174109184 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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