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TPO 26 - Question 4
Epiphytes
In rain forests, the canopy produced by the upper layer of branches may be so dense that few plants can grow on the shady ground below. Even so, many plants have adapted to life in the rain forest, developing fascinating strategies for survival. For example, various species known as epiphytes use a host plant as a platform for growth. Although epiphytes grow on a host tree, they take no nutrients from the tree itself. Attached to the tree, sometimes 30 or 40 meters high, these aerial plants have access to sunlight but not to nutrients from the soil below. As a result, they have developed unusual mechanisms that have allowed them to overcome this problem.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2017-01-27 | paras001 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-16 | Bobby1987 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-04 | Taniazehra | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-21 | Seema Modak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-05-29 | shishi | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 18 - Question 4Using the example of the pronghorn and lion, explain the concept of a relict behavior. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 703.0 592.248995984 119% => OK
No of words: 197.0 155.574297189 127% => OK
Chars per words: 3.56852791878 3.80514564318 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74642080493 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.73983614535 1.79077849142 97% => OK
Unique words: 114.0 93.7148594378 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578680203046 0.604071249207 96% => OK
Syllable count: 219.6 185.844578313 118% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0239370028998 0.0650381309087 37% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 98.5 68.503853103 144% => OK
STD paragraph length: 4.5 21.3332995233 21% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.835 25.9943957902 115% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 1.965 7.84667146824 25% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.35483870968 4.02192344571 158% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.57241737379 3.1217529195 211% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.91129032258 1.45093177766 132% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.82972365609 0.99851816184 183% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 39.0421686747 74% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.51 7.12997991968 35% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.0865517241379 0.185688545393 47% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0842113868158 0.155154303396 54% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 54.12 47.1480722892 115% => OK
Average word duration: 0.274720812183 0.305395592593 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.148154632565 0.189427763521 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.38 6.2937751004 85% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.76 3.39508032129 22% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.67 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9945 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.486006368359 0.656000678711 74% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.30149153679 2.60215298798 127% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.91050779286 1.56821927147 122% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.10643015521 1.99336655568 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.330189116751 0.317803793328 104% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.