Elephant
The listening casts doubt on the three common beliefs of elephants presented by the reading. The professor asserts that such beliefs are based on misunderstanding of elephants' behaviors.
Firstly, the author talks about the belief that elephants are aware of their death since old elephants will break away from herbs and finally die alone in a so called "elephant graveyards". However, the professor states that there are practical reasons for old elephants to leave their herbs. With their teeth getting worse in an older age, elephants break away from herbs in search of softer vegetables that are mainly found near water where the old elephants eventually die.
Secondly, another belief demonstrates that elephants possess artistic ability such as painting. On the contrary, the professor argues that such ability to paint is trained by humans by pulling elephants' sensitive ears so that they can remember the route of painting. Actually, elephants do not necessarily know what the paintings are representing.
Thirdly, according to the reading, elephants are said to be afraid of mice, which can be proved by a recent scientific experiment. But per the listening, this must be a wrong interpretation of elephants’ behavior. Elephants back away from mice simply because of unfamiliarity. Animal all conduct such instinctive behavior when they encounter some unfamiliar things. Elephants that live in a place where mice are common, like zoos, will not appear to have fear of mice.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...sor argues that such ability to paint is trained by humans by pulling elephants s...
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...ply because of unfamiliarity. Animal all conduct such instinctive behavior when t...
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...ke zoos, will not appear to have fear of mice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => 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: 1275.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42553191489 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99824605435 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621276595745 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 388.8 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.3531478879 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0769230769 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0769230769 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.84615384615 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.549009592952 0.272083759551 202% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.224090274671 0.0996497079465 225% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0847078076783 0.0662205650399 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.346835411484 0.162205337803 214% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486618601121 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 53.8541721854 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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