The reading and the lecture offer 2 opposing views on elephant behaviours. The reading discusses three beliefs and their explanations that seem to be true. Despite this, the listening material asserts that the guesses listed in the reading are all misunderstading.
First of all, the reading regards “elephant graveyards” as an evidence of elephants’ awareness of death. As for this aspect, the lecture claims that elephants leave their herds for more practical reasong. When elephants are old enough, their tooth worn down, thus make it difficult to chew and the need for softer vegetation which are often found near water. As a result, elephants spend their last time and died near water.
On top of that, the reading keeps the point that elephants seem to have artistic ability, as they can paint drawings by being taught. According to the lecture, if you watch them trained to paint, you’ll find the hunman trainer keep stroking elephants’ sensitive ears, which means they are trained to do tricks, such as paintings. In this point of view, it seems that elephants dont’s know what the flowers represent even if they can draw one, as it is only a certain pattern behaviour of drawing lines to them.
Furthermore, elephants are fearful about mice, as the reading text states. The fact that elephants backed away from the mice when they were confronted with several mice, doen’t directly lead to the conclusion of their fearness. In a matter of fact, the situation results from animals’ fear to unfamilliar thing, which is natural instinct. As the listening states, elephants that are familiar with mice, for example in a zoo, don’t mind the mice who don’t post a threat.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 378, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... point of view, it seems that elephants dont’s know what the flowers represent even ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, if, so, thus, as for, for example, such as, as a result, first of all, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => 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: 1419.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06785714286 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62717111381 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.610714285714 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 399.6 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 1.25165562914 639% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9109340039 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.357142857 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5 7.06452816374 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163451993106 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0607059427341 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0405627529955 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0938569334061 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0231064968591 0.0443174109184 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => 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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