TPo 33
The reading passage and the lecture discuss the purpose and the meaning of the ancient carved stone balls in Scotland. The reading brings up three theories about the purpose of these stones. However, the lecture brings up three reasons to rebut all dubious theories presented in the passage and states that none of these theories are convincing.
First of all, the writer holds the view that these stones were used as weapons. In contrast, the speaker refutes this idea and underlines the fact that this theory is not acceptable. In fact, if these stones were used as weapons, the signs of damage would be seen on their surface. However, archeologists have not reported signs of serious damage on the surface of these stones.
Second of all, the author contends that the stones had been used as a primitive system for measuring weight. Indeed, archaeologists have found these stones in various sizes and this observation has led them to this theory. However, the lecture contradicts this contention and asserts that these stone balls do not have logical properties as a measuring tool. In fact, carved stone balls are from various types of stones. Accordingly, they have different masses. In other words, two balls with the same size and same shape that have been made from different material may have different weight, since the density of all material is not the same.
Finally, the writer states that social status is another possible purpose of these stones, since the stones have signs on their surface. On the contrary, the speaker rebuts this statements and stress that this theory has not considered the properties of social status. In fact, the signs of some of these stones are really simple to be used as statues. In addition, ancient people buried the social status with the dead person. However, archeologists have not found any of these stone in grave or tones.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 173, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ce. On the contrary, the speaker rebuts this statements and stress that this theory ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['accordingly', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'in addition', 'in contrast', 'in fact', 'first of all', 'in other words', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.275568181818 0.261695866417 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.150568181818 0.158904122519 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0625 0.0723426182421 86% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0426136363636 0.0435111971325 98% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0113636363636 0.0277247811725 41% => OK
Prepositions: 0.142045454545 0.128828473217 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0454545454545 0.0370669169778 123% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.39316655453 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.00852272727273 0.0208969081088 41% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00568181818182 0.00154638098197 367% => OK
Determiners: 0.153409090909 0.128158765124 120% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00568181818182 0.0158828679856 36% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00284090909091 0.0114777025283 25% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1879.0 1645.83664459 114% => OK
No of words: 315.0 271.125827815 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.96507936508 6.08160592843 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04852973271 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.365079365079 0.374372842146 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.257142857143 0.287516216867 89% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.136507936508 0.187439937562 73% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0793650793651 0.113142543107 70% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39316655453 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457142857143 0.539623497131 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 45.0913474245 53.8517498576 84% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0529801325 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.5 21.7502111507 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.4154447815 49.3711431718 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.388888889 132.220823453 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 21.7502111507 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.888888888889 0.878197800319 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 43.2142857143 50.5018328374 86% => OK
Elegance: 2.26388888889 1.90840788429 119% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.676763127658 0.549887131256 123% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.15053178243 0.142949733639 105% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.120960924216 0.0787303798458 154% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.552546500268 0.631733273073 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.153404396142 0.139662658121 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.291525937019 0.266732575781 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0912134187686 0.103435571967 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.431921950326 0.414875509568 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0241820638031 0.0530846634433 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.511404266958 0.40443939384 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0379452916964 0.0528353158467 72% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.26048565121 211% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 1.0 3.49668874172 29% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.62251655629 193% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 3.1766004415 252% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 10.2958057395 155% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.