Summarize the pint made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific theories discussed in the reading passage.
As early as twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the building were used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three competing theories.
One theory holds that the Chaco structures were purely residential, with each housing hundreds of people. Supporters of this theory have interpreted Chaco great houses as earlier versions of the architecture seen in more recent Southwest societies. Particular, the Chaco houses appear strikingly similar to the large, well known "apartment buildings" at Taos, New Mexico, in which many people have been living for centuries.
A second theories contends that the Chaco structures were used to store food supplies. One of the main corps of the Chaco people was grain maize, ehich could be stored for long priods of time without spoiling and could serve as a long-lasting supply of food. The supplies of maize had to be storedd somewhere, and the size of the great houses would make them very suitable for the purpose.
A third theory proposes that houses were used to as ceremonial centers. Close to one house, called Pueblo Alto, archaeologists identified an enormous mound containing a surprisingly large number of broken pots. This finding has been interpreted as evidence that people gathered at Pueblo Alto for special ceremonies. At the ceremonies. they ate festive meals and then discarded the pots in which the meals had been prepared or served. Such ceremonies have been documented for other Native American cultures.
The reading passage and lecture have conflicting opinions about whether the buildings which founded near Chaco Canyon were used for some certain purposes. The article strongly postulates that there are three plausible explanations of how they were used. On the other hand, the listening adamantly delineates that none of the author's theories is convincing.
First and foremost, according to the author of the excerpt, Chaco's functions represent that they were utilised for residential buildings because it appeared alike to many popular early apartments at Taos, New Mexico. Nonetheless, the lecture offsets these points by declaring that even though they may look like apartments from outside, everything is completely different inside. Furthermore, she insists that if people lived in this area, there might be numerous fireplace because residents had to cook daily. However, as evidence suggested, there were around ten chimneys for hundreds of people.
Secondly, the professor in the lecture further asserts that it could not be used for maize storage. Since during the excavation, archaeologists didn't find any maize remains or its containers. These claims refute the writer's implications about it might be employed for their main food supply, maize, which preserved without decaying and it could also provide to feed a lot of people in that time.
The article lastly points out that these houses were mainly used for special ceremonies and events due to the fact that archaeologists discovered near this area, named Pueblo Alto, a great number of broken pots. This makes clear that these buildings were used for special events. The speaker in the listening counters these indications by insisting that from that area, other materials also founded which were construction tools and sands and other unexpected things. It goes without saying that those discoveries demonstrate that it could be used for the trash bins.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 145, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...e during the excavation, archaeologists didnt find any maize remains or its container...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, lastly, look, may, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1631.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43666666667 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64688286271 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.623333333333 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 493.2 419.366225166 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8389754047 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.5 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.85714285714 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.119306070877 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0416730910517 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0362198544711 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.077339997247 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457441968795 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.