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TPO 29 - Question 4
Scatter Hoarding
Many animals live in environments where food is plentiful during certain times of the year and scarce during other times of the year. In such environments, some animals collect and prepare food when it is plentiful, then hoard it—store it—for future use. Some types of hoarders engage in scatter hoarding. Unlike other types of hoarders, scatter hoarders do not store the food all in one place; instead, they scatter it—divide it up and hide it in many different places. Later, at a time when food is scarce, the hoarders return to these hiding places and recover the food.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-08-04 | toeflbeginner | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-11-29 | vhb | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-15 | Tulips | 43.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-04-01 | fahim135 | 84.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-21 | mgrajapt | 66.67 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 729.0 592.248995984 123% => OK
No of words: 178.0 155.574297189 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.09550561798 3.80514564318 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65262427087 3.525876923 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.78535931689 1.79077849142 100% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 93.7148594378 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.629213483146 0.604071249207 104% => OK
Syllable count: 238.5 185.844578313 128% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.213472309227 0.0650381309087 328% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 178.0 68.503853103 260% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 57.65 25.9943957902 222% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 20.0 42.0642570281 48% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 8.9 4.02192344571 221% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.84664832642 3.1217529195 155% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.809 1.45093177766 194% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.31942373785 0.99851816184 132% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 39.0421686747 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.92 7.12997991968 83% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.257391304348 0.185688545393 139% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.13692960398 0.155154303396 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.82 47.1480722892 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.274269662921 0.305395592593 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.135467460668 0.189427763521 72% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 7.94979919679 13% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.73 6.2937751004 12% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.88 3.39508032129 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.65 59.7592369478 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.960833333333 0.995987282463 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.398959236774 0.656000678711 61% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.08759757155 2.60215298798 119% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.94275802255 1.56821927147 124% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.29414174519 1.99336655568 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.33826155618 0.317803793328 106% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.