51 - integrated - elephants surprising behaviors
Both text and speaking state the different ideas about astonishing behaviors of the elephants, the largest land animal in this era where we live. The passage mentions three beliefs, and on the other side, the lecturer refutes all the notions by the reasons which will be discussed in the next paragraphs.
First, the reading suggests that elephants are capable of knowing when they will die. As the final days approaching, they leave the herd and go off alone to the specific locations which are almost near water. Moreover, some discovery of many sites indicates the fact that elderly elephants indeed gathered in those special places, called elephant graveyard, and stay until they die. On the contrary, the speaker points out that as the elephants grow older, they teeth weaken and spoil; Therefore, they need to access to new resources of food that are softer. The need to have softer vegetation makes them travel to the new locations containing those plants where are often near water.
Second, the passage claims that elephants have artistic ability. Since they can hold a paintbrush in their trunks and move it on the canvas to draw recognizable objects such as flowers, other elephants, and even themselves, they are the only animals, other than human, to create art showing their environment. In the other hand, the professor refutes the notion mentioning that elephants are trained to paint things. In this regard, when they are stroking the paintbrush on the canvas, someone touches their ears to control the movement of the trunks. Since the elephants' ears are so sensitive, they can remember how to move the brush in order to draw lines that once have been taught to them.
Finally, the reading asserts that elephants have a fear of mice. These massive animals, based on the ancient writings, are more afraid of those small mammals than any other dangerous animals in their habitats like tigers and lions. Moreover, a recent experiment shows that a herd of elephants moved back and changed their way so that they avoid facing several mice. The lecturer refuses the idea, asserting that elephants react to the mice themselves. Since they do not know what mice are, they keep themselves away to reduce the possible danger threatening them. However, where the mice are common, and the elephants realize them, they no longer pose them as a threat and do not mind their presence.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, as to, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 22.412803532 205% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2001.0 1373.03311258 146% => OK
No of words: 400.0 270.72406181 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0025 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40335052583 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 145.348785872 154% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 605.7 419.366225166 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8851826263 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.166666667 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2222222222 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116064563736 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0451100668276 0.0996497079465 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386078721731 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0683953869636 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0177706045358 0.0443174109184 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 63.6247240618 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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