The lecture disagrees with all three theories put forward in the passage as to the possible use of the 'great house' of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest.
To begin with, the lecturer contrasts the first theory in the passage that the great houses were formerly inhabited by humans, which is based on the presence of a plethora of rooms that could house hundreds of people. In contrast, he says that if the great houses were indeed comparable to modern American houses, there would be milliards of fireplaces for the various families, but the fireplaces found were inadequate to sustain that enormous amount of people.
Furthermore, the lecture counters the second claim in the reading that the houses might have served as storage centres for maize grains. Nevertheless, he bolsters his viewpoint with evidence that the were no traces of maize grains, or at least, containers of maize grains. Thus, they never served the purpose of storage.
Finally, the author argues that the houses may have been sites for ceremonial celebrations owing to the presence of broken pots close to Pueblo Alto. However, the lecture refutes this stand, saying that there were other items like construction materials apart from the pots. He further says that the pots in the heap of trash were probably left-over meals and plates of construction workers. Therefore, the pots did not indicate ceremonial functions.
In a nutshell, the lecturer effectively rebuts all three theories of the passage concerning the use of the great houses.
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- TPO-05 - Integrated Writing Task As early as the 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 th 88
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, thus, apart from, as to, at least, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1284.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 252.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09523809524 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57196741366 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575396825397 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 419.366225166 93% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.9097560936 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.727272727 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9090909091 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.6363636364 7.06452816374 193% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.352812144607 0.272083759551 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116278175429 0.0996497079465 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0674281536264 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174208008359 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.054435244258 0.0443174109184 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => 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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