TPO49-Humpback whales

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TPO49-Humpback whales

Submitted by paras2 on Wed, 01/02/2019 - 11:43

The lecture and the passage discuss whether hupback whales use stars to navigate or not. Although the passage claims that there are three hypotesises which indicate this animal navigate by the stars, the speaker refutes this idea through a number of reasons which will be described in this report.

First of all, the passage points out that humpback whales are sart enough to using the stars to navigate and they have well-developed abilitiy to utilize complex systems like night sly for their navigation. The speaker, incontrast, rejects this by claiming that there is not a real connection between intelligence and the using of the stars for navigation. He also states that there are some species like ducks which is using stars; however, they have average intelligence ability; So, they have just barned with this ability.

Furthermore, unlike the passage which states that since the humpback whales can retain their movements in a straight rout, they exploit some external objects or forces to navigate, the speaker argues that they might orient by some external objects or forces, even though the forces could be magnetic fields. He also adds that animals have general bio magnetide; thus, this species could use this magnetide in their brains to navigate their routes.

Finally, although the passage says that these whales have some unsual behavior like spy-hopping which demonstrates that they look upward to find the stars, the speaker disagrees by mentioning that spy-hopping is a rare behavior among anials; however, sharks use this behavior to look animals they want to hunt and in that time it might not no stars in the sky to be seen by this animal. Moreover, the sharks do not migrate; therefore, this hypothesis is a pure speculation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 169, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'navigating'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'force' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: navigating
...exploit some external objects or forces to navigate, the speaker argues that they might ori...
^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, look, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1474.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13588850174 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5021400594 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515679442509 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 31.0 21.2450331126 146% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 93.4171581247 49.2860985944 190% => OK
Chars per sentence: 163.777777778 110.228320801 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.8888888889 21.698381199 147% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 7.06452816374 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.377873904301 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.154693579053 0.0996497079465 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0793311077015 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232832044424 0.162205337803 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0546399401618 0.0443174109184 123% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.7 13.3589403974 140% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.0289183223 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.498013245 137% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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