Based on the given materials, the article as well as the lecture discusses the purpose of the curved balls found in Scotland. The author states that these balls were the same in size with high details along with being made from different stone types and suggest some possible usage for them. The lecturer, provides several ideas to repudiate this claim.
Initially, the author says that the stones could be used as weapons. However, the lecturer asserts that this is highly unlikely since the were preserved in good conditions. The stones should have had cracks or damage parts if they were used as weapons for hunting or war. The well condition of the stones suggest that they were not used in this manner.
Second, the writer proclaims that the weapons a weight measurement criteria because of their same size. Yet again, the lecturer explains that albeit the stones were in the same size but they were different in their mass because the artifacts were made from different types of stones like sand or grain. She mentions that different stones have different density and as a result they would vary in their weight based on the type of the stone they were made of. As the stone varies in their mass, they could not be used for measurement.
The final point of contention between the reading and listening passages is the stones' social purpose. The author thinks that the stone might have account for the social rank of a person since they had marks on them. On the other hand, The speaker opposes this idea by mentioning that not only some stone contained simple marks which could not be used for this purpose but also none of them were found in any temple. She points out that in the past people were buried with their possessions and since they were not found in any grave, the stones dose not indicate the social importance of any person.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, well, as to, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1530.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 324.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72222222222 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.13718466657 2.5805825403 83% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475308641975 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.3551908091 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.0 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.06666666667 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.274552334422 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102527541579 0.0996497079465 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0697307129185 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175633734652 0.162205337803 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0431949925161 0.0443174109184 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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