summarize the points made in the lecture about elephants special abilities and behaviors, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading about elephants surprising behaviors.
The reading discusses popular beliefs about surprising behaviors of elephants. However, the professor in the lecture believes that these attributes are not satisfactionally understood by humans. She disagrees with the explanations made in the reading and provides three reasons to refute each of them respectively.
First, the article states that elephants are aware of their death time and they leave their original herd at that period and stay in areas near water. In contrast, the professor opposes with this view and illustrates that older elephants usually migrate to regions near water, since they experience some problems with their teeth and they need to find softer food to handle their severe condition. These soft foods are mostly located in areas near lakes and wet regions where elephants prefer to spend their time at older ages.
Second, the passage assumes that there might be a paint brush inside elephants’ trunks which would assist them in painting on a canvas. In contrary, she insists that this could not be true, because elephants draw painting mainly under supervision of their teachers who guides them by poking a sharp tool in their ears to point out their mistakes. In this way, elephants would understand and correct their painting style. Therefore, most of the artistic ability of elephants are taught to them rather than being an intrinsic capability.
Third, the reading regards that elephants have a general fear of mice. On the other hand, professor demonstrates that elephants fear from unfamiliar species like mice. For example, elephants that are kept in a zoo never showed any fearful attitude toward mice, since they know them during their time in the zoo. So, fearing from mice can not be attributed to all elephants that live in various environments.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, so, therefore, third, for example, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1520.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24137931034 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61736631386 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 145.348785872 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606896551724 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 458.1 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5033135834 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.571428571 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.71428571429 7.06452816374 95% => 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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.202169660478 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07324670891 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0278492199632 0.0662205650399 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114612085444 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249489639208 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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