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Both the author and the lecturer discuss theories about the possible benefits that birds get from anting. The passage claims that there are some reasons that birds rub the ants on their feathers. The professor, on the other hand, completely reject whatever mentioned in the reading through citing three reasons.
First, both the author and the professor talk about the relief of skin irritation during feather change. According to the passage, the formic acid, which the birds apply to their feather and skin through anting, may act as a kind of lotion, helping to soothe the skin irritation caused by feather loss and replacement in summer. The lecturer, nevertheless, rejects the author's view and illustrates the idea that ants are more active in summer, so birds can find more ants during summer and the skin irritation is coincident with the abundance of ants.
Second of all, both the reading and the lecture discuss protection against parasites. The author argues that the formic acid helps the birds protect themselves from external parasites. However, the professor refutes this, saying that if the formic acid act as a chemical defense against parasites, we have to expect fewer parasites but we do not see any significant decline in amount of parasites.
Eventually, the passage and the lecture address the subject of food preparation. The passage goes on to mention that formic acid tastes bitter. If ants release their formic acid, the bitter taste is removed from ant's bodies and the birds can feed on the ants without tasting the bitterness. In contrast, the professor points out that the birds rub other things that are not suitable for eating such as cigarette and soup on their body but do not eat these things later. Therefore, bird's rubbing is not related to eating.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, in contrast, kind of, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1498.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 297.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04377104377 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43915633217 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531986531987 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.3156761689 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.0 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2142857143 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.21428571429 7.06452816374 116% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.198565854233 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691308953901 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.139830908756 0.0662205650399 211% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122240899604 0.162205337803 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0806531252071 0.0443174109184 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => 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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