Plain of jars
TPO 59
The Plain of Jar in Laos is a site with numerous large stone jars. It has long been an intriguing question for scholars what these jars were used for. However, archaeologists have come up with several hypotheses for this elusive problem. Three significant theories are discussed in the passage to shed light on the mystery of jars. In contrast, the professor doubts whether the theories proposed by the writer are true.
First, researchers believe that Laotian people have used these stone jars for the process of fermentation of food or drinks. Adding to that, local people also endorse this theory by mentioning that the jars were devised by kings at first, to ferment beverages for special occasions like great victories. In contrast, the professor thinks that this conviction is not true because they could use less expensive clay jars to ferment beverages or foods, instead of stone jars which are much more time-consuming and expensive to create. Adding to that, clay pots are as effective as stone ones when it comes to fermenting beverages.
Secondly, the writer contends that jars may have been used for storing water. These jars have been found near trade routes, which suggests that traders passing through the area used to drink the water of stone jars, especially in dry seasons. Despite this notion, the professor argues that most trading routes were near rivers or streams, so traders had plenty of other sources of freshwater. Thus, this fact eliminates the necessity of jars being used as water storages.
Lastly, the essay depicts the jars as possible ancient burial sites, where Laotians buried their dead alongside other artifacts like jewelry and glass beads. So, these jars served the purpose of the tomb for ancient people. On the other hand, the professor thinks that this claim has serious problems since ancient tombs are usually covered with some kind of protection to defend the dead body against bad weather or rain. However, no kind of protection can be seen in the Plain of Jars tombs. So, without any covering, they are unlikely to be used as tombs.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, thus, as to, in contrast, kind of, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1745.0 1373.03311258 127% => OK
No of words: 348.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01436781609 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40734462944 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577586206897 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 522.0 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8177233076 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.9444444444 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.27777777778 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.499831042468 0.272083759551 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159739770964 0.0996497079465 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107567119425 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.295344080446 0.162205337803 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592101859463 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => 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: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => 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: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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