In this set of materials, the reading passage explores the possible theories about how agnostids may have lived, and the professor's lecture deals with the same topic. However, she casts doubts on these theories, and in the lecture, she provides three specific points to support her opinion.
First, although the reading passage suggests that the agnostids hunted for smaller animals, the professor argues in the lecture that there is no evidence to prove agnostids are predators. This is because predators usually possess well-developed large eyes in order to track preys; nevertheless, agnostids are blind, not to mention having large eyes. Clearly, the professor's argument refutes its counterpart in the reading.
Moreover, despite the statement in the reading that agnostids may have lived on the seafloor, the professor contends that animals dwelling on the seafloor feature slow movement and have the tendency to stay and occupy one area where they originated, rather than in different areas. Then she substantiates this point with the fact that agnostids are found in multiple areas, which indicates that they have the ability to move from one place to another fast, and is an unusual phenomenon for seafloor animals.
Finally, the author of the reading passage claims that it is possible that agnostids were parasites, whereas the professor asserts that it is not possible. The professor explains that this claim is indefensible by pointing out that the population of parasites is relatively small since a large amount of parasites will kill their hosts. As a result, the great number of agnostids rules out the fact that agnostids were parasites.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 363, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...mention having large eyes. Clearly, the professors argument refutes its counterpart in the...
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Discourse Markers used:
['finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'whereas', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.25 0.261695866417 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.16095890411 0.158904122519 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0650684931507 0.0723426182421 90% => OK
Adverbs: 0.041095890411 0.0435111971325 94% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0342465753425 0.0277247811725 124% => OK
Prepositions: 0.143835616438 0.128828473217 112% => OK
Participles: 0.0205479452055 0.0370669169778 55% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.66164041246 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0239726027397 0.0208969081088 115% => OK
Particles: 0.00684931506849 0.00154638098197 443% => OK
Determiners: 0.123287671233 0.128158765124 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0102739726027 0.0158828679856 65% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0102739726027 0.0114777025283 90% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1654.0 1645.83664459 100% => OK
No of words: 263.0 271.125827815 97% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28897338403 6.08160592843 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04852973271 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.414448669202 0.374372842146 111% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.342205323194 0.287516216867 119% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.247148288973 0.187439937562 132% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.144486692015 0.113142543107 128% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66164041246 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585551330798 0.539623497131 109% => OK
Word variations: 60.7569826187 53.8517498576 113% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0529801325 77% => OK
Sentence length: 26.3 21.7502111507 121% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.9806864395 49.3711431718 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.4 132.220823453 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3 21.7502111507 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.2 0.878197800319 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 60.5205323194 50.5018328374 120% => OK
Elegance: 1.75362318841 1.90840788429 92% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.621785326297 0.549887131256 113% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.175595392078 0.142949733639 123% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0903882524003 0.0787303798458 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.702671434999 0.631733273073 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.118990186261 0.139662658121 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.30907738805 0.266732575781 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12723820746 0.103435571967 123% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.369362394637 0.414875509568 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0399002280307 0.0530846634433 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.421587970355 0.40443939384 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0728109376142 0.0528353158467 138% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.26048565121 47% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 3.49668874172 114% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.62251655629 83% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 3.1766004415 63% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 10.2958057395 87% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.