In the reading, the article introduces three surprising beliefs about elephant behaviors. However, in the listening, the professor gives out three reasons why these beliefs can’t stand.
First, the reading says that the elephant is aware of approaching death. Nevertheless, the listening points out that the true reason why an elephant may break away from the herd is that their teeth become worn out and the animals have to seek for softer plants as their food resources. There they would get close to the water where soft plants usually occur and finally die there.
Second, the reading asserts that elephants have artistic ability and know how to represent objects through art. However, the listening again rejects this statement. According to the lecture, in order to train elephants to paint, the painters will stroke the elephant’s ears and help them to memorize certain patterns of paintbrush strokes. In this way, the elephant would harness the capacity to draw lines that they are taught to paint. But the thing is that they are just programmed to draw these lines and don’t have any idea of what these lines represent.
Third, the reading says that the elephants have a fear of mice. But the listening also disputes this because it supposes the reason why elephants try to avoid mice is that mice are unfamiliar to them not that they are afraid of them. Those elephants living in the zoo don’t show any fright of mice because mice are always around them and they get used to these small creatures very much. In other words, once elephants are accustomed to mice, they wouldn’t mind if they are around or not.
In a nutshell, by giving all these three reasons, the listening successfully goes against the reading article.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 235, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this elephant' or 'Those elephants'?
Suggestion: This elephant; Those elephants
... them not that they are afraid of them. Those elephant living in the zoo don't show any f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, third, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1474.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 293.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03071672355 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49971518139 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563139931741 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 439.2 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6859499407 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2666666667 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5333333333 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13333333333 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132234763401 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0486834665857 0.0996497079465 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0402022147061 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0653322301973 0.162205337803 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0433452642943 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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