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TPO 15 - Question 3
University Should Pave Running Trails
The university has about three miles of unpaved dirt running trails that pass through the forest near campus. I think these trails should be paved with cement. One reason for paving the trails would be to increase their safety. When it rains, the dirt turns to mud and becomes very slippery, so the runners who use them can slip and fall. Pavement would solve this problem. Also, paving would make the trails look nicer, which would encourage students to use them. Bumps in the trail would be smoothed out and weeds would be paved over, making the trail more attractive to runners.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2016-08-27 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-06-26 | ying.ma | 76.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-28 | wls1993 | 65.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-06 | mgrajapt | 73.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-16 | jeffhjz | 75.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 557.0 593.389002037 94% => OK
No of words: 145.0 154.784114053 94% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.84137931034 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.47010008196 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.66371359467 1.81998168104 91% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 93.7942973523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.606896551724 0.608046397892 100% => OK
Syllable count: 174.6 185.724439919 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0467899622032 0.0833886788687 56% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 48.6666666667 71.3690273242 68% => OK
STD paragraph length: 54.530317765 24.1299301424 226% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 18.5533333333 26.8388033085 69% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 21.1887239404 8.89323425527 238% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 40.266802444 92% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.91891891892 4.20756893501 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.90738461813 3.23972648638 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.4727027027 1.51236819293 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.883425913162 1.0352206224 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 37.9022403259 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.3 7.22384928717 73% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.160606060606 0.193825474362 83% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.153147569831 0.16431695912 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.67 46.6644602851 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.321862068966 0.304040633073 106% => OK
STD word duration: 0.181183793927 0.193491353168 94% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 8.88594704684 146% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.55 6.97134419552 137% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.85 3.21433808554 58% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.66 59.1375356415 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.927666666667 0.985625594026 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.592885375494 0.643888735843 92% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.60510240747 2.61565628039 100% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.58102766798 1.58604529434 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.88557960146 2.01333574461 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.373601944828 0.322651457988 116% => OK
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.