TPO 26 - Question 4EpiphytesIn rain forests, the canopy produced by the upper layer of branches may be so dense that few plants can grow on the shady ground below. Even so, many plants have adapted to life in the rain forest, developing fascinating strate

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TPO 26 - Question 4
Epiphytes
In rain forests, the canopy produced by the upper layer of branches may be so dense that few plants can grow on the shady ground below. Even so, many plants have adapted to life in the rain forest, developing fascinating strategies for survival. For example, various species known as epiphytes use a host plant as a platform for growth. Although epiphytes grow on a host tree, they take no nutrients from the tree itself. Attached to the tree, sometimes 30 or 40 meters high, these aerial plants have access to sunlight but not to nutrients from the soil below. As a result, they have developed unusual mechanisms that have allowed them to overcome this problem.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 655.0 592.248995984 111% => OK
No of words: 183.0 155.574297189 118% => OK
Chars per words: 3.57923497268 3.80514564318 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.67800887145 3.525876923 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.68989457571 1.79077849142 94% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 93.7148594378 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551912568306 0.604071249207 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 216.0 185.844578313 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0428472066782 0.0650381309087 66% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 91.5 68.503853103 134% => OK
STD paragraph length: 51.5 21.3332995233 241% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.72 25.9943957902 114% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 18.05 7.84667146824 230% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 42.0642570281 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.1 4.02192344571 152% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.34015967682 3.1217529195 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.929 1.45093177766 133% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.865649467163 0.99851816184 87% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 39.0421686747 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.19 7.12997991968 73% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.235909090909 0.185688545393 127% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.151437328499 0.155154303396 98% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.72 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.260765027322 0.305395592593 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.137409540958 0.189427763521 73% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.94979919679 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.44 6.2937751004 55% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.35 3.39508032129 128% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.44 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.990666666667 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.370121130552 0.656000678711 56% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.07873485868 2.60215298798 118% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.69919246299 1.56821927147 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11651299246 1.99336655568 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.426451989071 0.317803793328 134% => OK

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.