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In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: Not only did it create jobs, but it also created Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that today provides water to all of southern Nevada.
Question: How long did it take to construct Lake Mead?
Solution: | about one year. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Example solution: 1 hour.
Example explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: The origin of the funds remains unknown, although we have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading up to 9/11.
Question: For how long was al Qaeda financing itself?
| Solution: 9 years. | 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Why? Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input: Sentence: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Question: How long had Callimaco pursued Lucrezia?
Solution: | 1 year. | 0 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example is below.
Q: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
A: 1 hour.
Rationale: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Q: Sentence: If you walked, you used chemical energy from the food you ate.
Question: How long did you have energy for?
A: | 6 hours. | 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Q: Sentence: Martinez works two jobs as a physician's assistant and supports his elderly parents and 8-year-old son.
Question: How long has Martinez been working as a physician's assistant?
A: 5 years.
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Q: Sentence: Britain seized Gibraltar — in the name of the Hapsburg claimant — and retained it when the war was over.
Question: How long did the war happen?
A: 2 years.
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Q: Sentence: Roberta Adams skipped the thick how-to guide on child-custody forms and sat down at a computer at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange on Wednesday.
Question: How long did Roberta sit at the computer?
A: | about three hours.
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| 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport.
Question: How long did it take Boston Center managers to recognize the jetliners?
Solution: | an hour. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example Input: Sentence: We may promise "justice for all," but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Question: How long did it take to afford a lawyer?
Example Output: a year.
Example Input: Sentence: It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins.
Question: How long have the Continents existed?
Example Output: 250 million years.
Example Input: Sentence: At Christie's, a folio of 21 prints from Alfred Stieglitz's "Equivalents" series sold for $396,000, a single-lot record.
Question: How long did it take for the prints to sell?
Example Output: | 5 minute.
| 3 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Ex Input:
Sentence: He would splash and play until he was ready to go back home, where he would sleep for hours, having worn himself out playing.
Question: How long would he splash and play for?
Ex Output:
1 hour.
Ex Input:
Sentence: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for $4.14 million in 1999.
Question: How long did the bidding last for the 1804 U.S. silver dollar?
Ex Output:
seven minutes.
Ex Input:
Sentence: Because the same amount of matter still exists, we can say that matter is conserved.
Question: For how long did someone study matter before deriving this conclusion?
Ex Output:
| for years.
| 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
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Question: Sentence: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Question: How long was she at the courthouse?
Answer: 4 hours.
Question: Sentence: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Question: How long does it take for her to meet with the stranger?
Answer: several days.
Question: Sentence: Having damaged the enemy's cohesion, Philip ordered his troops to press forward and quickly routed them.
Question: How long did it take for Philip's troops to damage the enemy's cohesion?
Answer: | 2 days.
| 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Output: 1 hour.
Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input case for you: Sentence: A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse, 405 W. Congress St. Deconcini was one of the organization's early board members.
Question: How long did it take to form the organization's board?
Output: | 6 weeks. | 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
PROBLEM: Sentence: The person may walk a half mile in the wrong direction!.
Question: How long will the person spend walking in the wrong direction?
SOLUTION: 15 minutes.
PROBLEM: Sentence: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Question: How long did she hold the post?
SOLUTION: 2 years.
PROBLEM: Sentence: Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common.
Question: How long does an eclipse last for?
SOLUTION: | at least 30 minutes.
| 8 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Sentence: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.
Question: How long has it existed?
2,000 years.
Sentence: The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market, said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group.
Question: How long did John Kelly speak?
1 hour.
Sentence: One day, Kevin traveled from his home in the United States of America to Erin's house in England.
Question: How long did the trip take?
| 1 day.
| 0 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Question: How long did Parameswara talk to them?
Output: a few hours.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Then the green ball told the orange ball that blue ball was stupid.
Question: How long was the green ball talking to the orange ball?
Output: 15 seconds.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Islam later emerged as the majority religion during the centuries of Ottoman rule, though a significant Christian minority remained.
Question: How long has a significant Christian minority remained?
| Output: hundreds of years.
| 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Part 2. Example
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Answer: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Part 3. Exercise
Sentence: Sometimes Joey gets a little dried out so Marsha's mom told her to soak him in water every few days.
Question: How long does Joey need to soak in water?
Answer: | 10-15 minutes. | 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
PROBLEM: Sentence: He jumped on his favorite chair and looked down as Maggie ran under it.
Question: How long did it take him to jump on the chair.?
SOLUTION: 2 seconds.
PROBLEM: Sentence: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Question: How long did it take for the other states to pass such initiatives?
SOLUTION: two years.
PROBLEM: Sentence: The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
Question: How long does the factory spend making chips?
SOLUTION: | 12 hour.
| 8 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: Tony and Ally like to play other games like hopscotch or jump rope but that day they joined the game of tag.
Question: How long did the game of tag last?
Solution: | a half hour. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Question: How long did it take the shelter to get information?
Solution: | 10 hours. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[Q]: Sentence: Martinez works two jobs as a physician's assistant and supports his elderly parents and 8-year-old son.
Question: How long has Martinez been working as a physician's assistant?
[A]: 5 years.
[Q]: Sentence: Danny begins spending less and less time at home with his wife and children .
Question: How much time was he spending at home?
[A]: 2 hours a day.
[Q]: Sentence: All Ana had to do was spell this last word and she would be the winner.
Question: How long did it take her to spell the word?
[A]: | 30 seconds.
| 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Example solution: 1 hour.
Example explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: He also had very short legs, but really big paws.
Question: How long did it take him to grow his big paws?
| Solution: 21 months. | 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Part 2. Example
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Answer: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Part 3. Exercise
Sentence: This approach has been echoed by Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, and others, and has become standard.
Question: How long did it take to become standard?
Answer: | 2 years. | 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: In another major paper from this era, Einstein gave a wave equation for de Broglie waves, which Einstein suggested was the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of mechanics.
Question: How long did Einstein take to publish his wave equation?
Solution: | 6 weeks. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Ex Input:
Sentence: A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse, 405 W. Congress St. Deconcini was one of the organization's early board members.
Question: How long did it take to form the organization's board?
Ex Output:
6 weeks.
Ex Input:
Sentence: The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks.
Question: For how long do the wafers ride on tracks?
Ex Output:
5 hours.
Ex Input:
Sentence: It was huge and inefficient, and she should never have spent so many pesos on a toy, but Papa would not let her return it.
Question: How long did she spend at the store buying the toy?
Ex Output:
| 60 minutes.
| 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[Q]: Sentence: Afterwards she felt a lot better and went to sleep.
Question: How many hours did she sleep?
[A]: 8.
[Q]: Sentence: The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks.
Question: For how long do the wafers ride on tracks?
[A]: 5 hours.
[Q]: Sentence: Ruling that the order was mutually binding, Judge Thornton also cited the men for contempt.
Question: How long did the hearing last?
[A]: | 90 minutes.
| 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[Q]: Sentence: Bailey received the award for his three years of volunteer work at Indiana Pro Bono Commission.
Question: How long was Bailey's award ceremony?
[A]: an hour.
[Q]: Sentence: The next evening, she arrived with a stack of glistening stopboxes containing sushi, sashimi, oysters in their shells, and Terran vegetables fresh plucked from their hydroponic beds.
Question: For how long was she gone?
[A]: 2 days.
[Q]: Sentence: Her mommy took her to the dog pound so that she could choose one that she wanted.
Question: How long did it take for them to reach the dog pound?
[A]: | 30 minutes.
| 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Part 2. Example
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Answer: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Part 3. Exercise
Sentence: A thin, washed-out, pretty woman stood up, and clasped her hands in front of her.
Question: How long were her hands clasped?
Answer: | one minute. | 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[Q]: Sentence: Then they laid down on some towels and enjoyed the sun.
Question: How long did they enjoy under the sun?
[A]: they enjoyed being under the sun for 2 hours.
[Q]: Sentence: At this early stage in its history Japan was already (for the most part) only nominally ruled by the emperor.
Question: How long did the Emperor rule Japan?
[A]: 25 years.
[Q]: Sentence: She had it for a long time so it is now a dark brown color.
Question: How long has she had it?
[A]: | 10 years.
| 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[EX Q]: Sentence: Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II.
Question: About how much time passed between World War I and World War II?
[EX A]: 21 years.
[EX Q]: Sentence: They also liked to go through the small forest behind the house, making a game of hide and seek.
Question: How long do they usually play hide and seek?
[EX A]: 30 minutes.
[EX Q]: Sentence: Church is brought back to life , but is an evil shell of himself .
Question: How long did it take for Church to be brought back to life?
[EX A]: | almost instantly.
| 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Output: 1 hour.
Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input case for you: Sentence: However , by the time Schahzenan's army reaches the city , Scheherazade's plan has worked .
Question: How long will Schahzenan's army take to reach the city?
Output: | it will take them one month. | 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example is below.
Q: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
A: 1 hour.
Rationale: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Q: Sentence: In London at mid-afternoon yesterday, Ratners's shares were up 2 pence (1.26 cents), at 260 pence ($1.64).
Question: How long did Ratners's shares stay up?
A: | 2 weeks. | 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
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Question: Sentence: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.
Question: How long did the Shang Dynasty last?
Answer: for hundreds of years.
Question: Sentence: A thwarted Mongol invasion in 1274 weakened the Kamakura regime.
Question: How long did the invasion last?
Answer: two months.
Question: Sentence: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Question: How long did it take for Mr Barco to accept military aid?
Answer: | 1 week.
| 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
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In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
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Sentence: When Mary called Max's name he left the squirrel and happily returned to Mary, wagging his tail as he went.
Question: How long was Max playing with the squirrel?
answer:
27 seconds.
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Sentence: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Question: How long did she hold the post?
answer:
2 years.
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Sentence: He'd seen a dog before, every cat has, and he used to live with a black dog named Henry, but he'd never seen a brown one before.
Question: How long did he live with Henry?
answer:
| for years.
| 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
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In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
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Sentence: The award was voted on and presented by the women's caucus of West Virginia University College of Law.
Question: How long did the award ceremony last?
answer:
2 hour.
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Sentence: Once we arrive, the castle looked much bigger than we had imagined.
Question: How long have you imagined the castle?
answer:
2 months.
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Sentence: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Question: How long did the investigation span?
answer:
| a month.
| 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Part 2. Example
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Answer: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Part 3. Exercise
Sentence: Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals.
Question: How long did it take for Pushkin to commit to social reform?
Answer: | 10 months. | 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Sentence: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Question: How long did it last?
3 minutes.
Sentence: Alexander II's death caused a great setback for the reform movement.
Question: How long did the effects of Alexanders death last?
many years.
Sentence: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Question: How long did it take to detonate the bomb?
| 5 seconds.
| 0 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
instruction:
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
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Sentence: Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life.
Question: How long does it take Deborah to wash and prepare the lettuce?
answer:
it takes her 10 minutes.
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Sentence: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said "we have some planes.".
Question: How long did they know the plane had been hijacked?
answer:
1 day.
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Sentence: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Question: How long did it take for the Spanish to reach Jamaica?
answer:
| 2 months.
| 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
See one example below:
Problem: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Question: How long did the Portuguese explore?
Solution: | over several years. | 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Britain seized Gibraltar — in the name of the Hapsburg claimant — and retained it when the war was over.
Question: How long did the war happen?
Output: 2 years.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: These rangers were too well trained to appear openly curious about their captain's guest.
Question: How long did it take to train the rangers?
Output: 6 months.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: One result was two NSC-led interagency trips to Persian Gulf states in 1999 and 2000.
Question: How long did the trips last?
| Output: 1 week.
| 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example Input: Sentence: He said that Oliver North of Iran-Contra notoriety thought he had erased his computer but that the information was later retrieved for congressional committees to read.
Question: How long did it take to retrieve the data from the computer?
Example Output: two weeks.
Example Input: Sentence: Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks.
Question: How long does it take for a river to form?
Example Output: a century.
Example Input: Sentence: Danny begins spending less and less time at home with his wife and children .
Question: How much time was he spending at home?
Example Output: | 2 hours a day.
| 3 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Why? Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input: Sentence: We may promise "justice for all," but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Question: How long did it take to afford a lawyer?
Solution: | a year. | 0 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Q: Sentence: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Question: How long did it take for them to detect the target?
A: ten minutes.
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Q: Sentence: His people had tried and tried to break him, but he was wild at heart.
Question: How much time did his people spend trying to break him?
A: several weeks.
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Q: Sentence: I clapped her shoulder to show I was not laughing at her.
Question: How long did they laugh?
A: | for less than a minute.
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| 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Question: How long has he been fired for?
Output: a few weeks.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Afterwards she felt a lot better and went to sleep.
Question: How many hours did she sleep?
Output: 8.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: He also promises to `` come to '' him .
Question: How long does it take for him to "come to" him?
| Output: a few hours.
| 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Output: 1 hour.
Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input case for you: Sentence: Shelly went to every cage and looked each puppy in the eyes and talked to each one.
Question: How long did Shelly talk to the puppies?
Output: | 15 minutes. | 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[Q]: Sentence: Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business.
Question: How long had they been in business?
[A]: 15 years.
[Q]: Sentence: These specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species.
Question: How long do they spend at each flower?
[A]: about 30 seconds.
[Q]: Sentence: Meridian National Corp. said it sold 750,000 shares of its common stock to the McAlpine family interests, for $1 million, or $1.35 a share.
Question: How long did it take for Meridian National Corp. to sell the shares?
[A]: | one night.
| 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[Q]: Sentence: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the "Grange" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Question: How long did it take to complete the house?
[A]: 9 months.
[Q]: Sentence: At the sight of the great man, Spear flushed crimson, and then his look of despair slowly disappeared; and into his eyes there came incredulously hope and gratitude.
Question: How long did Spear see the great man?
[A]: a few minutes.
[Q]: Sentence: Shelly went to every cage and looked each puppy in the eyes and talked to each one.
Question: How long did Shelly talk to the puppies?
[A]: | 15 minutes.
| 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
See one example below:
Problem: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: The dog accompanied him, frisking about him in friendly fashion.
Question: How long did the dog accompany him?
Solution: | 90 minutes. | 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Every Saturday we would go to the park and play Toodles' favorite game.
Question: How long is the game?
Output: 90 minutes.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.".
Question: For how long do they feel they are forced to stay?
Output: a few months.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: The dog accompanied him, frisking about him in friendly fashion.
Question: How long did the dog accompany him?
| Output: 90 minutes.
| 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[EX Q]: Sentence: For over five years, I've been in court practically every day on these abuse cases, Ms. Walker said, "and I've never before had a victim threatened with contempt.".
Question: How many hours did Walker work yesterday?
[EX A]: 8 hours.
[EX Q]: Sentence: Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Question: How long did the postwar slump last?
[EX A]: for years.
[EX Q]: Sentence: He turned, and across the court-room the eyes of the financier and the stenographer met.
Question: How long did they look at each other?
[EX A]: | a minute.
| 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
See one example below:
Problem: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Question: How long was she at the courthouse?
Solution: | 4 hours. | 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Output: 1 hour.
Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input case for you: Sentence: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Question: How long did the Beetles meet with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi?
Output: | an hour. | 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example input: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Example output: 1 hour.
Example explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Q: Sentence: Ratners's chairman, Gerald Ratner, said the deal remains of "substantial benefit to Ratners.".
Question: How long did the chairman speak?
A: | 30 minutes. | 3 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Ex Input:
Sentence: The two become close friends but do not reveal the secrets .
Question: How long did it take them to become friends?
Ex Output:
1 week.
Ex Input:
Sentence: Joe's parents are farmers and they have a huge farm with cows, chickens, and ducks.
Question: How long have Joe's parents been farmers?
Ex Output:
20 years.
Ex Input:
Sentence: The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras.
Question: How long did it take to chose the operatives?
Ex Output:
| 6 months.
| 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Ex Input:
Sentence: No, of course not… I– "Then why," Arthur barreled on, "do you disregard them all and return to this superstitious babble, this morbid, paganistic drivel?.
Question: How long has Arthur been talking?
Ex Output:
10 minutes.
Ex Input:
Sentence: On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice.
Question: How long does it take for them to answer?
Ex Output:
30 seconds.
Ex Input:
Sentence: He them imprisons the royal family in his prison .
Question: How long was the Royal family imprisoned?
Ex Output:
| 10 weeks.
| 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Q: Sentence: The resolution creating the new intelligence committee structure should grant subpoena authority to the committee or committees.
Question: How long does it take to grant a subpoena?
A: a few days.
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Q: Sentence: Tony and Ally like to play other games like hopscotch or jump rope but that day they joined the game of tag.
Question: How long did the game of tag last?
A: a half hour.
****
Q: Sentence: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Question: How long has he been fired for?
A: | a few weeks.
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Let me give you an example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
The answer to this example can be: 1 hour.
Here is why: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
OK. solve this:
Sentence: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Question: How long does it take for flood water to spread?
Answer: | 6 hours. | 8 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Q: Sentence: Ruling that the order was mutually binding, Judge Thornton also cited the men for contempt.
Question: How long did the hearing last?
A: 90 minutes.
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Q: Sentence: They woke up and the sun was beginning to set.
Question: How long did they sleep?
A: 6 hours.
****
Q: Sentence: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Question: How long does it take for flood water to spread?
A: | 6 hours.
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
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Question: Sentence: The group are chased by the assassins and Ronnie and Riya are killed .
Question: How long was the group chased by the assassins ?
Answer: 9 hour.
Question: Sentence: Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a $100 fine.
Question: How long were they in court?
Answer: 2 hour.
Question: Sentence: They also argued that Hall's litigious style hampered their ability to garner funds from Congress.
Question: How long was Hall in office?
Answer: | four years.
| 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Teacher: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Reason: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this instance: Sentence: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Question: How long did Parameswara talk to them?
Student: | a few hours. | 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: Gonzo treated himself to a massage today to try to work out all of his stuntman kinks.
Question: How long did the massage take?
Solution: | 0.5 hour. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[Q]: Sentence: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Question: How long did she hold the post?
[A]: 2 years.
[Q]: Sentence: The dermis also contains hair follicles and two types of glands.
Question: How long does the dermis take to heal after a minor injury to it?
[A]: 3 days.
[Q]: Sentence: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Question: How long did Parameswara talk to them?
[A]: | a few hours.
| 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: Youll buy fewer items in the long run, so youll save money as well as resources.
Question: How long will it take to save money?
Solution: | a few months. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Let me give you an example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
The answer to this example can be: 1 hour.
Here is why: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
OK. solve this:
Sentence: In this way the other major congressional interests can be brought together in the new committee's work.
Question: How long did it take to form the new committee?
Answer: | it took one month. | 8 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: It's hail crackled across the comm, and Tara spun to retake her seat at the helm.
Question: How long was the storm?
Output: 6 hours.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Question: How long was it a violent world?
Output: 60 years.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Then the green ball told the orange ball that blue ball was stupid.
Question: How long was the green ball talking to the orange ball?
| Output: 15 seconds.
| 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Teacher: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Reason: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this instance: Sentence: Carl Laemmle, head of Universal Studios, gave Einstein a tour of his studio and introduced him to Chaplin.
Question: How long did the tour last?
Student: | 1 hour. | 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Sentence: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Question: How long did Parameswara talk to them?
a few hours.
Sentence: Jud replies , `` Christ on His throne , no. .
Question: How long was Jud in church?
for two hours.
Sentence: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Question: How long did it take to visit the tomb?
| about five days.
| 0 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life.
Question: How long does it take Deborah to wash and prepare the lettuce?
Output: it takes her 10 minutes.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: He estimated the money will help handle at least another 180 cases next year.
Question: How long did it take to raise the money?
Output: a year.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: At the sight of the great man, Spear flushed crimson, and then his look of despair slowly disappeared; and into his eyes there came incredulously hope and gratitude.
Question: How long did Spear see the great man?
| Output: a few minutes.
| 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: He accents the illusion of reality --I paraphrase his entry in La Enciclopedia Humanica --by doing life-size scenes in "The full round," never the easier frontal or three-quarters view.
Question: How long did it take him to develop his unique style?
Solution: | eleven years. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Example solution: 1 hour.
Example explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: It's hail crackled across the comm, and Tara spun to retake her seat at the helm.
Question: How long was the storm?
| Solution: 6 hours. | 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example input: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Example output: 1 hour.
Example explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Q: Sentence: Einstein's affiliation with the Institute for Advanced Study would last until his death in 1955.
Question: For how long was Einstein a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study?
A: | 10 years. | 3 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Why? Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input: Sentence: Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in.
Question: How long did Tumble like to play outside for?
Solution: | 10 minutes. | 0 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Why? Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input: Sentence: Martinez works two jobs as a physician's assistant and supports his elderly parents and 8-year-old son.
Question: How long has Martinez been working as a physician's assistant?
Solution: | 5 years. | 0 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Q: Sentence: He said that Oliver North of Iran-Contra notoriety thought he had erased his computer but that the information was later retrieved for congressional committees to read.
Question: How long did it take to retrieve the data from the computer?
A: two weeks.
****
Q: Sentence: Wallace lives in Athens, W. Va., with her husband Rob, 37, and her daughters Rachel, 11, and Claire, 5.
Question: How long has Wallace lived in Athens?
A: 25 years.
****
Q: Sentence: In the aftermath of Massaga and Ora, numerous Assakenians fled to the fortress of Aornos.
Question: How long did it take the Assakenians to get to the fortress?
A: | 5 days.
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Example solution: 1 hour.
Example explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: Jerry goes out to the pier and casts his favorite bait : cheese .
Question: How much time did Jerry spend at the pier?
| Solution: jerry spent almost two hours at the pier. | 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
See one example below:
Problem: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) is the public radio and TV broadcaster of Albania, founded by King Zog in 1938.
Question: How long has RTSH been established?
Solution: | 80 years. | 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Q: Sentence: One day, Kevin traveled from his home in the United States of America to Erin's house in England.
Question: How long did the trip take?
A: 1 day.
****
Q: Sentence: The postwar period began, however, with millions of displaced people homeless and starving.
Question: How long did the postwar period last?
A: 5 years.
****
Q: Sentence: Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) is the public radio and TV broadcaster of Albania, founded by King Zog in 1938.
Question: How long has RTSH been established?
A: | 80 years.
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Output: 1 hour.
Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
New input case for you: Sentence: Once we arrive, the castle looked much bigger than we had imagined.
Question: How long have you imagined the castle?
Output: | 2 months. | 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
PROBLEM: Sentence: In this way the other major congressional interests can be brought together in the new committee's work.
Question: How long did it take to form the new committee?
SOLUTION: it took one month.
PROBLEM: Sentence: Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals.
Question: How long did it take for Pushkin to commit to social reform?
SOLUTION: 10 months.
PROBLEM: Sentence: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Question: How long does it take him to build a fire?
SOLUTION: | five minutes.
| 8 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
instruction:
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
question:
Sentence: In a 1945 interview, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist.
Question: How long did the 1945 interview last?
answer:
1.5 hours.
question:
Sentence: The massive ice sheet, called a glacier, caused the features on the land you see today.
Question: How long did it take the glacier to cause the features on the land?
answer:
5000 years.
question:
Sentence: Once we arrive, the castle looked much bigger than we had imagined.
Question: How long have you imagined the castle?
answer:
| 2 months.
| 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: Newman also has a $5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.
Question: For how long did Newman work for the company?
Solution: | eleven years. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example Input: Sentence: Shelly went to every cage and looked each puppy in the eyes and talked to each one.
Question: How long did Shelly talk to the puppies?
Example Output: 15 minutes.
Example Input: Sentence: All the puppies at the dog pound need a loving home.
Question: How long will it take to find them a home?
Example Output: 6 months.
Example Input: Sentence: Adding to the physical, emotional and financial burden they take on, grandparents face legal problems.
Question: How long have grandparents been facing legal problems?
Example Output: | 50 years.
| 3 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Question: How long are his shifts as a defense attorney?
Output: 10 hours.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in.
Question: How long did Tumble like to play outside for?
Output: 10 minutes.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Question: How long had Callimaco pursued Lucrezia?
| Output: 1 year.
| 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Sentence: He estimated the money will help handle at least another 180 cases next year.
Question: How long did it take to raise the money?
a year.
Sentence: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Question: How long does it take for flood water to spread?
6 hours.
Sentence: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now," he said.
Question: How long will they be doing that?
| many hours.
| 0 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
instruction:
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
question:
Sentence: The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
Question: How long does the factory spend making chips?
answer:
12 hour.
question:
Sentence: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Question: How long does the series last?
answer:
20 episodes.
question:
Sentence: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said "we have some planes.".
Question: How long did they know the plane had been hijacked?
answer:
| 1 day.
| 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
instruction:
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
question:
Sentence: A majority of 65 votes in the 128-member body was required to reject his reinstatement.
Question: How long did the campaign last?
answer:
6 days.
question:
Sentence: The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market, said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group.
Question: How long did John Kelly speak?
answer:
1 hour.
question:
Sentence: After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport.
Question: How long did it take Boston Center managers to recognize the jetliners?
answer:
| an hour.
| 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Let me give you an example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
The answer to this example can be: 1 hour.
Here is why: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
OK. solve this:
Sentence: At Christie's, a folio of 21 prints from Alfred Stieglitz's "Equivalents" series sold for $396,000, a single-lot record.
Question: How long did it take for the prints to sell?
Answer: | 5 minute. | 8 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Example solution: 1 hour.
Example explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: Having damaged the enemy's cohesion, Philip ordered his troops to press forward and quickly routed them.
Question: How long did it take for Philip's troops to damage the enemy's cohesion?
| Solution: 2 days. | 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
One example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution is here: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this: Sentence: Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common.
Question: How long does an eclipse last for?
Solution: | at least 30 minutes. | 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Ex Input:
Sentence: Dr. Safti is so busy saving lives that he can not personally care for Edwina , who has fallen ill .
Question: How long has Edwina been ill?
Ex Output:
a month.
Ex Input:
Sentence: Billy loved to watch as Tumble ate his bowl of oatmeal, because Billy took good care of Tumble, everyday.
Question: How long did it take for Tumble to eat his oatmeal?
Ex Output:
10 minutes.
Ex Input:
Sentence: A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse, 405 W. Congress St. Deconcini was one of the organization's early board members.
Question: How long did it take to form the organization's board?
Ex Output:
| 6 weeks.
| 1 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Teacher: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Reason: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this instance: Sentence: It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins.
Question: How long have the Continents existed?
Student: | 250 million years. | 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
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Question: Sentence: Over the centuries, the living here has always been easy enough to attract a steady stream of immigrants.
Question: Did immigrants arrive over many years?
Answer: yes.
Question: Sentence: Finley only realizes with hindsight that his misdeeds far surpass those of Violet .
Question: How long did it take Finley to realize?
Answer: 2 days.
Question: Sentence: Sometimes Joey gets a little dried out so Marsha's mom told her to soak him in water every few days.
Question: How long does Joey need to soak in water?
Answer: | 10-15 minutes.
| 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[EX Q]: Sentence: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Question: How long did it take to succeed?
[EX A]: 9 years.
[EX Q]: Sentence: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Question: How long did the movie last?
[EX A]: 1.5 hours.
[EX Q]: Sentence: Even those with jobs are suffering: 26 percent of California workers earn poverty level wages.
Question: How long do they stay at their jobs for?
[EX A]: | five years.
| 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[EX Q]: Sentence: One day, Kevin traveled from his home in the United States of America to Erin's house in England.
Question: How long did the trip take?
[EX A]: 1 day.
[EX Q]: Sentence: There are some exceptions, including pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law.
Question: How many months did the pregnancies last?
[EX A]: 9 months.
[EX Q]: Sentence: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Question: How long did Hamilton fight for freedom for blacks?
[EX A]: | his entire career.
| 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Let me give you an example: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
The answer to this example can be: 1 hour.
Here is why: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
OK. solve this:
Sentence: All Ana had to do was spell this last word and she would be the winner.
Question: How long did it take her to spell the word?
Answer: | 30 seconds. | 8 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[Q]: Sentence: The music , in a garage punk vein , plays an important role in the film .
Question: How long does the music play in the film?
[A]: 20 minutes.
[Q]: Sentence: The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks.
Question: For how long do the wafers ride on tracks?
[A]: 5 hours.
[Q]: Sentence: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Question: How long did it take the shelter to get information?
[A]: | 10 hours.
| 5 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.
Question: How long did the attack on the destroyer take?
Output: 3 minutes.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Billy would put the bowl down and wait for Tumble to come up to the bowl to eat from it.
Question: How long does it take to eat from the bowl?
Output: 5 minutes.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Taj Jackson told the magazine: "My mom made sure that we had a real childhood, with birthday parties, baseball, family outings, all that stuff.".
Question: How many years did Taj Jackson play baseball?
| Output: 10 years.
| 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Teacher: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Reason: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Now, solve this instance: Sentence: It seemed strange to him, but not as strange as it was to see Linda the brown chicken in the living room last spring.
Question: How long was Linda the brown chicken in the living room for last spring?
Student: | 1 hour. | 2 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
See one example below:
Problem: Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Solution: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Problem: Sentence: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Question: How long does it take to make silk?
Solution: | 4 hours. | 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Q: Sentence: It's hail crackled across the comm, and Tara spun to retake her seat at the helm.
Question: How long was the storm?
A: 6 hours.
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Q: Sentence: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Question: How long are his shifts as a defense attorney?
A: 10 hours.
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Q: Sentence: In another major paper from this era, Einstein gave a wave equation for de Broglie waves, which Einstein suggested was the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of mechanics.
Question: How long did Einstein take to publish his wave equation?
A: | 6 weeks.
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
[EX Q]: Sentence: He tried to halt the Dayaks' piracy and head-hunting while defending their more "morally acceptable" customs.
Question: How long does a typical act of piracy take?
[EX A]: more than an hour.
[EX Q]: Sentence: Gonzo treated himself to a massage today to try to work out all of his stuntman kinks.
Question: How long did the massage take?
[EX A]: 0.5 hour.
[EX Q]: Sentence: As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color.
Question: How long will winter last?
[EX A]: | 3 months.
| 6 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
Part 2. Example
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Question: How long did Jack play basketball?
Answer: 1 hour.
Explanation: Typically we play basketball for a couple of hours. So any answer in that range is reasonable.
Part 3. Exercise
Sentence: The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US.
Question: How long did it take to legitimize gambling?
Answer: | 10 years. | 7 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
instruction:
In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.
question:
Sentence: She renews in Ranchipur an acquaintance with a former lover , Tom Ransome , now a dissolute alcoholic .
Question: For how long was she Tom's lover?
answer:
2 years.
question:
Sentence: So how do you know where light will go after it strikes a shiny surface?.
Question: How long does light strike shiny surfaces before reflecting?
answer:
a second.
question:
Sentence: He jumped on his favorite chair and looked down as Maggie ran under it.
Question: How long did it take him to jump on the chair.?
answer:
| 2 seconds.
| 9 | NIv2 | task004_mctaco_answer_generation_event_duration | fs_opt |
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