As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the buildings were used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three competing theories.
Both the reading and the lecture mention about the use of Chaco "great houses" with some competing theories. However, the professor doesn't agree with and points out the unconvincing evidences of those three theories.
As consider in the first theory, Chaco "great houses" were built for hundred of people which appear similar to the large well-known "apartment building" at Southwest New Mexico. This run against the lecture's claim that the quantity of fireplaces in house are not suitable for hundreds of people. With a few fireplaces, the professor thinks that the maximum families living together in great house is only 10 families.
Another theory in the reading contends that the Chaco structures were used to store grain maize as a long-lasting supply of food. While the lecture showed that food containers were not found in the houses so it may not the convincing expaination for the use of great houses.
The last theory relying on the large amount of old material and broken pots proproses that Chaco houses were used as cermonial centers. However, the professor think that those old material were used for contruction instead of ceremony. Moreover, the broken pots found after excavations maybe only the daily trash.
In conclusion, the reading and lecture point out some possible explaination for the use of great houses but those theories have not been convincing universally yet.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, may, moreover, so, well, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1201.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 226.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31415929204 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87727950738 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80914912723 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.570796460177 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 363.6 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.9192496675 49.2860985944 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.181818182 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5454545455 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193209916327 0.272083759551 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734603282923 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0459347735563 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105238923819 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486742515952 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => 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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