TPO 23 Distinction of the yellow cedar tree.
The reading and the lecture both regarding the steady decline of the yellow cedar tree, a species of tree that grows in North America. The reading passage states three hypotheses about the waning of the tree. Nevertheless, the lecture casts doubt on it by mentioning several reasons.
Firstly, the writer reveals that this declining is caused by insect parasites, specifically the cedar bark beetle, which attacks the threes, and the beetle larvae eat the wood. But, the lecturer mentions that when cedar trees are young they are so healthy and full of poisonous substances inside it for removing parasites. Young cedars are much more resistant than other species. So, the healthiest trees are unlikely to suffer from beetles.
Secondly, the author expresses the aggressive feeding habits of brown bears, which claw at the cedars in order to eat the sweet tree bark. Moreover, these habits might be the factor of declining trees. However, the professor regards this statement as erroneous. Because, there are a lot of islands in North America, where cedar trees grow, and any brown bears seemed on those islands.
Thirdly, the reading passage states the gradual changes in climate, which might be caused by this process. Furthermore, during the last one hundred years, the climate changed drastically in northwestern North America. Thus, that temperature change affected the yellow cedar trees’ root system, which now starts growing in the late winter, instead of growing in the early spring. Apparently, plants’ root systems are so sensitive, and as the weather gets colder roots to get damaged due to the freezing. (261 words)
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1373.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 263.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22053231939 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48531374229 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.634980988593 0.540411800872 117% => OK
syllable_count: 400.5 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.5456226806 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.5333333333 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5333333333 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.06666666667 7.06452816374 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2957326198 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0864730806026 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0979780529051 0.0662205650399 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184681795091 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.060236401866 0.0443174109184 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.7 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => 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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