The reading passage and the lecture both discuss pterosaurs and whether they were capable of powered flight or not and offer two opposing views on it. The author of the passage states that the pterosaurs were not powered flight animals. However, the lecture challenges what the passage proposes and refutes all the reasons.
First of all, the author of the reading highlights that the pterosaurs were cold-blooded animals and as a result, they were not able to produce sufficient energy for powered flight. Not having been convinced, the professor asserts that the pterosaurs' fossils had dense hair covering their body, something like fur. She proceeds to say that this thick layer of hair could help the pterosaurs to keep their internal body temperature high enough to help their metabolism to generate such a high energy required for powered flight.
Moreover, the passage contends that the pterosaurs were to heavy, basaed on the evidence from their fossils, to be capable of powered flight. On the contrary, the speaker asserts that based on the anatomy of the pterosaurs, even though they had large bones, they were not too heavy and their weight were low. Therefore, they were able of powered flight, despite their size.
Finally, the lecture does not approve the third reason stated by the author which is having too weak and small back legs to launch a high jump for powered flight. The professor propounds that the pterosaurs were different from birds and used their all four limbs to walk. Consequently, by using their all legs, they were able to jump high enough to perform powered flight. Thus, she contradicts the claims of the passage and proves that pterosaurs were able to do powered flight.
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Discourse Markers used:
['consequently', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'therefore', 'third', 'thus', 'as a result', 'first of all', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.209523809524 0.261695866417 80% => OK
Verbs: 0.171428571429 0.158904122519 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.101587301587 0.0723426182421 140% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0603174603175 0.0435111971325 139% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0539682539683 0.0277247811725 195% => OK
Prepositions: 0.101587301587 0.128828473217 79% => OK
Participles: 0.0349206349206 0.0370669169778 94% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.38852803505 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0380952380952 0.0208969081088 182% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.114285714286 0.128158765124 89% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0031746031746 0.0158828679856 20% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00634920634921 0.0114777025283 55% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1716.0 1645.83664459 104% => OK
No of words: 285.0 271.125827815 105% => OK
Chars per words: 6.02105263158 6.08160592843 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04852973271 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.364912280702 0.374372842146 97% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.287719298246 0.287516216867 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.140350877193 0.187439937562 75% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0912280701754 0.113142543107 81% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38852803505 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484210526316 0.539623497131 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 46.8249262796 53.8517498576 87% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0529801325 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.9230769231 21.7502111507 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.466461817 49.3711431718 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.0 132.220823453 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9230769231 21.7502111507 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.878197800319 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 50.6950067476 50.5018328374 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.21111111111 1.90840788429 63% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.594819613743 0.549887131256 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.173193862417 0.142949733639 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0733843073311 0.0787303798458 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.65536813688 0.631733273073 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.113720036063 0.139662658121 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.308700839063 0.266732575781 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.099347647623 0.103435571967 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.483657328667 0.414875509568 117% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0534582814589 0.0530846634433 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.454277450063 0.40443939384 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0828459603705 0.0528353158467 157% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.26048565121 94% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 3.49668874172 172% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.1766004415 94% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => 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.