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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Let me give you an example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
The answer to this example can be: D.
Here is why: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
OK. solve this:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit .
Sent 2: Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years .
Sent 3: Upon reaching orbit , it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter , Which looks for potential landing sites for the probes .
Sent 4: The first probe , Balboa , explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry , because one of its wings failed to unfold .
Sent 5: Two backup probes , Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton , successfully land on the planet , and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms , including an apparently sapient species .
Sent 6: The robotic probes sent out to research on Darwin IV are called Horus Probes .
Sent 7: Each Horus probe consists of an { { convert } } long inflatable , hydrogen-filled balloon , Which is covered with solar receptors , a computer ` brain ' , a ` head ' covered with sensors , and several smaller robots that can be sent to places too dangerous for the probes themselves .
Sent 8: The probes have a limited degree of artificial intelligence , very similar to the ` processing power ' of a 4-year-old .
Sent 9: All the real thinking is done by a supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun .
Sent 10: The probes are programmed with different personalities ; Ike is more cautious , while Leo is the risk-taker .
Sent 11: The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin .
Sent 12: After the two probes inflate their gas-bags , they encounter a voracious Arrowtongue and watch it pursue a Gyrosprinter .
Question: Which interstellar spacecraft reaches Darwin IV in 42 years? (A) Balboa (B) Von Braun (C) Sapien (D) Leonardo DaVinci (E) Isaac Newton (F) Ike.
Answer: | B. | 8 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | 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.
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Solution: D.
Why? Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
New input: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: 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.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest — as had been the case in North Africa and Europe — but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance — all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446–1459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.
Question: Who was responsible for orang laut pirates extorting tribute from passing ships? (A) Cheng Ho (B) Bendahara (prime minister) (C) Admiral Cheng Ho (D) Sri Maharajah (E) Emperor Chu Ti (F) Bendahara (G) Tun Perak (H) Military commander.
Solution: | B, F, G, H. | 0 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Have you ever seen an egg?
Sent 2: Some animals do not have live births.
Sent 3: Instead, they lay eggs.
Sent 4: The eggs contain the embryo.
Sent 5: The embryo matures in the egg.
Sent 6: With time, it will hatch.
Sent 7: Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents.
Sent 8: They are ready to live on their own.
Sent 9: Other animals will still need the care of their parents.
Sent 10: Sea turtles break out of their shells.
Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean.
Sent 12: They do this with no help from an adult.
Sent 13: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks.
Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents.
Sent 15: They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly.
Sent 16: Some animals give birth to live offspring.
Sent 17: Animals like horses, cows, and whales give live birth.
Sent 18: Their offspring are born looking like mini adults.
Question: How do young birds behave? (A) They do this with no help from an adult (B) Birds stay in the nest for many weeks.
Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents (C) Young birds stay in the nest for many weeks and leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly (D) They do not depend on adults (E) They depends on adults till they develop ability to fly.
Answer: B, C, E.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: The series starts in Baghdad at an undetermined time .
Sent 2: The Sultan Shahryar has gone mad after accidentally killing his wife during a failed coup d' tat , Which she had planned with Shahryar's brother Schahzenan .
Sent 3: In his madness , Shahryar believes that all women now want to kill him , but the law states that the Sultan must be married again or the throne will be passed to his brother .
Sent 4: Shahryar therefore orders Grand Vizier Ja'Far ( ( ( Jim Carter to bring him a harem girl to marry and then have executed the next day .
Sent 5: In order to prevent this , the Grand Vizier's clever daughter , Scheherazade , decides to marry the Sultan herself .
Sent 6: Scheherazade has a plan to prevent her execution and at the same time cure the Sultan of his madness .
Sent 7: With the help of some tutoring from a bazaar storyteller , Scheherazade tells the Sultan a story every night , stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger and refusing to continue until dusk .
Sent 8: Shahryar must therefore let Scheherazade live for another day in order to hear the rest of the story .
Sent 9: Cunningly , Scheherazade has hidden a moral within every story , to bring the Sultan out of his madness .
Sent 10: Meanwhile , Schahzenan hears about the Sultan's madness and that he is unable to execute Scheherazade .
Sent 11: Perceiving this as weakness , Schahzenan leads his army to Baghdad in an attempt to take the throne by force .
Sent 12: However , by the time Schahzenan's army reaches the city , Scheherazade's plan has worked .
Sent 13: As a result of her stories , Shahryar has overcome his madness and has fallen in love with Scheherazade .
Question: What makes Schahzenan lead his army to Baghdad? (A) The death of sultan (B) Fear of death (C) Wanting the throne (D) Falling in love (E) The sultans madness (F) Conceived weakness of brother (G) The news of Sultan's madness.
Answer: C, E, F, G.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit .
Sent 2: Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years .
Sent 3: Upon reaching orbit , it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter , Which looks for potential landing sites for the probes .
Sent 4: The first probe , Balboa , explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry , because one of its wings failed to unfold .
Sent 5: Two backup probes , Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton , successfully land on the planet , and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms , including an apparently sapient species .
Sent 6: The robotic probes sent out to research on Darwin IV are called Horus Probes .
Sent 7: Each Horus probe consists of an { { convert } } long inflatable , hydrogen-filled balloon , Which is covered with solar receptors , a computer ` brain ' , a ` head ' covered with sensors , and several smaller robots that can be sent to places too dangerous for the probes themselves .
Sent 8: The probes have a limited degree of artificial intelligence , very similar to the ` processing power ' of a 4-year-old .
Sent 9: All the real thinking is done by a supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun .
Sent 10: The probes are programmed with different personalities ; Ike is more cautious , while Leo is the risk-taker .
Sent 11: The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin .
Sent 12: After the two probes inflate their gas-bags , they encounter a voracious Arrowtongue and watch it pursue a Gyrosprinter .
Question: Which interstellar spacecraft reaches Darwin IV in 42 years? (A) Balboa (B) Von Braun (C) Sapien (D) Leonardo DaVinci (E) Isaac Newton (F) Ike.
Answer: | B.
| 7 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: There once was a guy named Kevin and girl named Erin.
Sent 2: They really liked spending time together.
Sent 3: One day, Kevin traveled from his home in the United States of America to Erin's house in England.
Sent 4: They then thought to take a sudden trip around the world.
Sent 5: They first traveled by plane around Europe, where they saw many different people and sights.
Sent 6: They then took a boat to Africa and Asia, where they went on a trip through the mountains.
Sent 7: Later in the month, they traveled to China by train and were allowed to see how different life was over there.
Sent 8: Next they took another plane to Australia, where they had a lot of fun seeing kangaroos and a different type of English speaking people.
Sent 9: After spending a week in Australia, Kevin and Erin took a really long plane ride to North America, where they drove across the land.
Sent 10: They saw everything from the mountains to forests.
Sent 11: They even got to visit the beach!
Sent 12: Because they had so much fun, Kevin returned home with Erin to England where they hung out and spent the next few days and months talking about all of the neat things they saw and did on their trip.
Question: Kevin and Erin went to what country after they took a train? (A) Australia (B) Australia and then North America (C) They never took a train (D) Africa.
Ex Output:
A, B.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: The letterhead on correspondence still bears the Bexar County Legal Aid name, even though the organization is no longer.
Sent 2: Texas Rural Legal Aid - known for its fearless and sometimes controversial advocacy of the poorest of the poor - last week took over four other corporations serving the legal needs of the indigent in Southwest Texas, including the one in Bexar County.
Sent 3: The new 68-county legal aid organization has yet to be named and stretches from El Paso to Corpus Christi, Harlingen to Austin.
Sent 4: The leader for the super-sized law firm has big plans.
Sent 5: "I'm more interested in looking at what we as advocates can do to address the serious problems of poverty than the number of cases we close," said David Hall, the TRLA executive director.
Sent 6: In the Rio Grande Valley, Hall's attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation.
Sent 7: They also operate a legal arm that assists migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky.
Sent 8: Now, Hall said, he wants to make services to the poor more efficient by working with law students who will handle less complicated legal matters, allowing licensed attorneys to take more "high impact" cases to court.
Sent 9: "What we need to do is handle cases as efficiently as we can, leveraging the amount of time of the lawyer that goes in there and maximizing the number of people that they can help at one time," Hall said.
Sent 10: His plan is to place the 110 attorneys on staff in teams working on specialized legal issues.
Sent 11: He wants to expand the law clinic it already has with St. Mary's University Law School to involve students at the University of Texas Law School.
Sent 12: The law students at St. Mary's interview potential clients, assist them with filling out legal documents and answer the telephones for the legal hotline, freeing up TRLA lawyers to handle the complicated cases, Hall said.
Sent 13: By the end of September, Hall said all the attorneys working with the poor in the 68county area will be placed on the same computer network so they can pass cases to the best available attorneys.
Sent 14: Last year, board members on the former Legal Aid of Central Texas and Bexar County Legal Aid resisted the merger, saying that the mergers were done illegally and without the input of board members.
Sent 15: They also argued that Hall's litigious style hampered their ability to garner funds from Congress.
Sent 16: TRLA generated controversy in 1996, when its attorneys challenged the rights of 800 military personnel to vote in Val Verde County elections by absentee ballot after a former Ku Klux Klan member won a county commissioner post.
Sent 17: Brendan Gill, the former executive director of the Bexar County group, said he has since come to see the merger as a positive move for South Texas.
Sent 18: "I always knew there were good points to merging, just as I knew that there were bad points," Gill said.
Question: What is the first name of the director whose attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans in the Rio Grande Valley? (A) Daniel (B) David (C) Gill (D) Hall.
Ex Output:
B, D.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness.
Sent 2: Do you know how plants respond to these changes?
Sent 3: Some plants open their leaves during the day.
Sent 4: It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight.
Sent 5: At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss.
Sent 6: Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day.
Sent 7: As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant.
Sent 8: Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth.
Sent 9: It does this in order to survive.
Sent 10: Shorter days signal the coming of winter.
Sent 11: Winter in most areas means extreme cold.
Sent 12: It is also very dry in the winter months.
Sent 13: As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color.
Sent 14: After the change in color, they fall off.
Sent 15: This dormancy period helps trees.
Sent 16: It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter.
Sent 17: Plants only want to grow when conditions are right.
Question: How do plants respond as the length of the day changes? (A) They don't respond at all (B) Some plants suspend their growth (C) Some plants die (D) Some plants respond by becoming dormant (E) Plants may go dormant.
Ex Output:
| B, D, E.
| 1 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Example solution: D.
Example explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Problem: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, whose nearly priceless collection was confiscated because it was suspected to contain pieces looted by the Nazis, died Tuesday and left the masterpieces to a Swiss museum.
Sent 2: One day after Gurlitt's death at the age of 81, the Museum of Fine Arts Bern announced that Gurlitt had named it "his unrestricted and unfettered sole heir."Sent 3: The news came as a surprise, the museum said Wednesday, because Gurlitt had never had any connection to it.
Sent 4: The museum's directors are delighted at the news, they said in a statement, but also recognize that there are outstanding legal and ethical questions surrounding the collection.
Sent 5: Gurlitt had undergone major heart surgery and was hospitalized for many weeks, his representative said in a statement.
Sent 6: Gurlitt grabbed the attention of the art world when German prosecutors seized more than 1,200 paintings from his Munich apartment in 2012, including works by Picasso and Matisse.
Sent 7: The collection was confiscated as part of an investigation into tax fraud, but then it was thought that some of the paintings may have been works that were looted by the Nazis.
Sent 8: Just last month, part of the collection was returned to Gurlitt as part of a deal with Germany's cultural authorities and the Bavarian Justice Ministry.
Sent 9: Under the agreement, works owned by Gurlitt that were not under suspicion were returned to him.
Sent 10: Those suspected of being stolen were to be held securely while a task force investigates their provenance -- and will be returned to their original Jewish owners or their descendants if a claim is proven.
Sent 11: Gurlitt's representative said that with the art collector's death, the investigation into the collection ceases.
Sent 12: The court that was handling the investigation proceedings will now function as an estate court in the case.
Question: How old was the art collector Cornelius Gurlitt when he died? (A) At the age of 81 (B) 80 (C) 80 years old (D) 81.
| Solution: A, C. | 5 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
One example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Solution is here: D.
Explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Now, solve this: Paragraph- Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .
Question: What makes Ben offers to pay for the fence (A) He wants to avoid community service (B) He felt sorry for the judge (C) His car damaged the fence (D) Crash damage of the fence of local Judge Evans (E) It was his moms fence (F) Ben avoiding cumminuty service (G) He pulled out the fence (H) Crash damages the fence.
Solution: | A, C, D, F, H. | 6 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: The first rule is parental.
Sent 2: The primitive monarchy is in the home.
Sent 3: A young baby cries.
Sent 4: The trained nurse turns on the light, lifts the baby, hushes it, sings to it, rocks it, and stills its weeping by caresses and song.
Sent 5: When next the baby is put down to sleep, more cries, more soothing and disturbance, and the setting of a tiny instinct which shall some day be will--the power of control.
Sent 6: The grandmother arrives on the scene.
Sent 7: When baby cries, she plants the little one firmly in its crib, turns down the light, pats and soothes the tiny restless hands that fight the air, watches, waits.
Sent 8: From the crib come whimpers, angry cries, yells, sobs, baby snarls and sniffles that die away in a sleepy infant growl.
Sent 9: Silence, sleep, repose, and the building of life and nerve and muscle in the quiet and the darkness.
Sent 10: The baby has been put in harmony with the laws of nature--the invigoration of fresh air, sleep, stillness--and the little one wakens and grows like a fresh, sweet rose.
Sent 11: The mother, looking on, learns of the ways of God with men.
Question: What characters soothe the baby's weeping? (A) The mother (B) Mother and maternal aunt (C) The nurse (D) Trained nurse and grandmother (E) The grandmother (F) The nurse and grandmother.
A: C, D, E, F.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTING gains new stature as prices rise.
Sent 2: Price records are being set at auctions this week.
Sent 3: At Christie's, a folio of 21 prints from Alfred Stieglitz's "Equivalents" series sold for $396,000, a single-lot record.
Sent 4: Other works also have been exceeding price estimates.
Sent 5: In part, prices reflect development of a market structure based on such variables as the number of prints.
Sent 6: This information used to be poorly documented and largely anecdotal, says Beth Gates-Warren of Sotheby's.
Sent 7: "There is finally some sort of sense in the market," she says.
Sent 8: Corporations and museums are among the serious buyers, giving greater market stability, says Robert Persky of the Photograph Collector.
Sent 9: "When I see prints going into the hands of institutions, I know they aren't going to come back on the market."Sent 10: Most in demand: classic photographs by masters such as Stieglitz and Man Ray.
Sent 11: But much contemporary work is also fetching "a great deal of money," says Miles Barth of the International Center of Photography.
Question: How many of Alfred Stieglitz's prints sold at a record price? (A) 12 (B) 396 (C) Around 20 (D) 35 (E) 21 (F) 2 (G) None (H) 21 prints.
A: C, E, H.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: The mighty fane, with its three massive towers, rises majestically over the red roofs of the town.
Sent 2: Its most striking feature is the great Norman screen, running up without buttresses or projections to the parapet and hiding the bases of the square, richly decorated towers of the west front.
Sent 3: The plain centre of the screen is the work of Remigius, the first bishop.
Sent 4: The rest of it is relieved with rich arcading of Late Norman and Early English periods.
Sent 5: The wooden spires which crowned the towers were removed in 1807.
Sent 6: In 1192 Hugh of Avalon determined to rebuild the Norman building of Remigius, which an earthquake had shaken.
Sent 7: To him we owe the choir and eastern transept.
Sent 8: His successors completed the western transept and began the west end of the nave.
Sent 9: So much money had to be spent in rebuilding the central tower, which fell in 1239, that the canons could not rebuild the nave entirely, but had to incorporate the Norman end by Remigius.
Sent 10: Unfortunately the axis of the west front does not correspond to that of the nave, which is too wide for its height.
Sent 11: The low vaulting is a serious defect in the choir built by St. Hugh, but of the superb beauty of the Angel Choir, which encloses his shrine, there can be no doubt.
Sent 12: In its richness of sculpture it is one of the masterpieces of Gothic architecture in England.
Sent 13: The interior of the cathedral is remarkable for the harmony of its style, which is Lancet-Gothic, and the dim lighting of the nave only adds to its impressiveness.
Question: What is the church's most striking feature? (A) Three towers (B) Norman screen (C) The great Norman screen.
A: | B, C.
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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: In 1990, the U.S. Custom House in New York City was renamed after Hamilton.
Sent 2: In 1880, his son John Church Hamilton commissioned Carl Conrads to sculpt a granite statue, now located in Central Park, New York City.
Sent 3: One statue honoring Alexander Hamilton in Chicago was mired in controversy, at least concerning the surrounding architecture.
Sent 4: Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858-1937), of the Buckingham Fountain family, commissioned the monument.
Sent 5: Its impetus was that Treasury Secretary Hamilton "secured the nation's financial future and made it possible for her own family to make its fortune in grain elevators and banking.
Sent 6: Consequently, John Angel was hired to model a figurative sculpture and the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen was to create a "colossal architectural setting" for it.
Sent 7: The proposed 80-foot tall columned shelter was poorly received.
Sent 8: By Ms. Buckingham's death in 1937, the sculpture's setting.
Sent 9: location and design were uncertain.
Sent 10: Conspiracy allegations surfaced, and the matter became mired in litigation.
Sent 11: After the courts ordered the construction to be completed by 1953, the trustees hired architect Samuel A. Marx.
Sent 12: The structure was completed, had structural problems, and was eventually demolished in 1993.
Sent 13: The statue was gilded, and is still on display.
Sent 14: A statue, by James Earle Fraser, was dedicated on May 17, 1923, on the south terrace of the Treasury Building, in Washington.
Question: From 1937 to 1953 what legal proceeding tied up the construction of the statue? (A) Divorce (B) Litigation (C) There was no one to claim the statue so they were not going to build it (D) Conspiracy allegations, which became mired in litigations.
[EX A]: B, D.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Elaan is a declaration of war against the reign of terror unleashed by the ganglords .
Sent 2: The story revolves around an upright and principled Police Officer , A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary whose eldest son Vikas is killed in a pre-planned accident .
Sent 3: But the A.C.P. is unable to nab the culprits for want of valid evidence .
Sent 4: Consequently , the A.C.P. , his wife Revati and younger son Vishal are griefstricken over the loss of young Vikas .
Sent 5: While the atmosphere in the city is already vitiated by the atrocities of ganglords Baba Khan and Manna Shetty who enjoy the support of some unscrupulous police personnel , the A.C.P. vows to make the ruthless gangsters bite the dust , without taking the law in his own hands .
Sent 6: On the other hand , Vishal an angry young man , can not stand this injustice since the police had failed to arrest his brother's killers , and he silently resents his A.C.P father's inaction in dealing with the culprits .
Sent 7: The ideologies of the father and son clash - Which lead to a conflict between a dutiful father and a reckless son .
Sent 8: The only one who understands the agony of Vishal is Mohini , the daughter of head constable Devkinandan Sharma .
Sent 9: The day comes when Vishal confronts Baba Khan and Manna Shetty Which leads to tension and gory situation for the A.C.P. , as the ganglords threaten to eliminate the A.C.P. as well as his wife Revati and son Vishal .
Question: Who is unable to nab the culprits in search of evidence? (A) Revati (B) The A.C.P (C) Vishal (D) Ramakant (E) A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary.
[EX A]: B, E.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
Sent 2: According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest "would be happy and unvanquishable forever".
Sent 3: Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative.
Sent 4: While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Sent 5: His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least late Antiquity.
Sent 6: Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage.
Sent 7: The recent discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its original intent was to be the burial place of Alexander.
Sent 8: This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
Sent 9: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Sent 10: Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use.
Sent 11: Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public.
Sent 12: His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign.
Sent 13: After this, details on the fate of the tomb are hazy.
Sent 14: The so-called "Alexander Sarcophagus", discovered near Sidon and now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is so named not because it was thought to have contained Alexander's remains, but because its bas-reliefs depict Alexander and his companions fighting the Persians and hunting.
Sent 15: It was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the battle of Issus in 331.
Sent 16: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.
Question: What were the last known details of Alexander's sarcophagus? (A) Recently it is said that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death (B) Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public. His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign (C) It is the tomb of Abdalonymus, the king of Sidon.
[EX A]: | A, B.
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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
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Paragraph- Sent 1: MALS was formed here more than 30 years ago.
Sent 2: Today, 14 staff attorneys, 26 office workers and 21 University of Memphis third- year law students work out of rented offices in the old Claridge Hotel building at 109 N. Main.
Sent 3: Offices are spartan.
Sent 4: There are no lush rugs or stylish furniture.
Sent 5: The large table in the conference room is simple varnished wood.
Sent 6: Offices are small and mostly plain, except for the eclectic mix of pop art, African statuary and neon that adorns litigation director Webb Brewer's space.
Sent 7: Brewer, who has been at the agency 20 years, said there is a need for lawyers of all stripes to help with the problems of the poor.
Sent 8: "The private bar could meet more of the need through pro bono work, but there are still cases that involve the systemic problems for low-income people that we would need to do," said Brewer.
Sent 9: "The legal system marketplace just doesn't serve low-income people too well, except in fee-generat-ing type cases," Brewer said.
Sent 10: "If a poor person gets run over by a bus, an attorney might take that case because they might be able to recover part of the damage award as attorney fees.
Sent 11: But so many of the cases we handle have to do with basic rights and a decent life.
Sent 12: There is just no profit motive."Sent 13: Larry Pivnick, law professor at the University of Memphis Law School and director of political programs at MALS, said Legal Services is a great learning laboratory for law students.
Sent 14: "There are thousands and thousands of people who have problems that never get an opportunity to appear in court," Pivnick said.
Sent 15: "Some people may not be particularly articulate.
Sent 16: Courts have rules that clients don't always understand."Sent 17: Brewer said a major focus of the agency's work involves housing.
Sent 18: "Although a lot of our work is grant-driven, we find that the lack of safe and decent affordable housing and the prevalence of predatory lending are the biggest problems in our client population," Brewer said, referring to clients such as James.
Question: Housing is a major focus for what agency? (A) It's a main focus for VA (B) HUD (C) Rich people (D) The wealthy (E) Low-income people (F) MALS (G) Political Programs.
answer:
F.
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Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- A federal court jury in Florida convicted seven people of participating in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise, according to the Department of Justice.
Sent 2: Jurors convicted the seven Wednesday of multiple counts of child exploitation, pornography and obstruction of justice.
Sent 3: Members of the organization used Internet news groups to swap and share "illegal images and videos depicting prepubescent children, including toddlers, engaged in various sexual and sadistic acts," prosecutors said.
Sent 4: An indictment filed in the case detailed interactions between group members as they swapped and commented on images.
Sent 5: "My thanks to you and all the others that together make this the greatest group of pedos to ever gather in one place," Freeman wrote in response to one posting, according to the indictment.
Sent 6: And a posting from Castleman, cited in the indictment, read, "Thanks to all for the wonderful material that has been posted."Sent 7: An Australian constable who infiltrated the group in August 2006 was among 50 witnesses testifying at trial.
Sent 8: He told the jury that the group traded more than 400,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse before being dismantled by law enforcement, according to the Justice Department statement.
Sent 9: Each defendant faces a sentence of 20 years to life in prison, fines and the possibility of supervised release for the rest of their lives, authorities said.
Sent 10: The seven will be sentenced April 14.
Sent 11: During the six-day trial, evidence showed the seven participated in what prosecutors called a "well-organized criminal enterprise whose purpose was to proliferate child sex abuse images to its membership during a two-year period."Sent 12: "This was a wide-scale, high-volume, international trafficking enterprise that used sophisticated computer encryption technology and file-sharing techniques," Matthew Friedrich, acting assistant attorney general, said in the statement.
Sent 13: The seven defendants were James Freeman of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida; Gary Lakey of Anderson, Indiana; Marvin Lambert of Indianapolis, Indiana; Neville McGarity of Medina, Texas; Warren Mumpower of Spokane, Washington; Daniel Castleman of Lubbock, Texas; and Ronald White of Burlington, North Carolina, according to the Department of Justice.
Question: Who told the jury that the group traded more than 400,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse? (A) The Department of Justice (B) Castleman (C) The Australian constable (D) The seven defendents (E) Mathew Friedrich.
answer:
C.
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Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, whose nearly priceless collection was confiscated because it was suspected to contain pieces looted by the Nazis, died Tuesday and left the masterpieces to a Swiss museum.
Sent 2: One day after Gurlitt's death at the age of 81, the Museum of Fine Arts Bern announced that Gurlitt had named it "his unrestricted and unfettered sole heir."Sent 3: The news came as a surprise, the museum said Wednesday, because Gurlitt had never had any connection to it.
Sent 4: The museum's directors are delighted at the news, they said in a statement, but also recognize that there are outstanding legal and ethical questions surrounding the collection.
Sent 5: Gurlitt had undergone major heart surgery and was hospitalized for many weeks, his representative said in a statement.
Sent 6: Gurlitt grabbed the attention of the art world when German prosecutors seized more than 1,200 paintings from his Munich apartment in 2012, including works by Picasso and Matisse.
Sent 7: The collection was confiscated as part of an investigation into tax fraud, but then it was thought that some of the paintings may have been works that were looted by the Nazis.
Sent 8: Just last month, part of the collection was returned to Gurlitt as part of a deal with Germany's cultural authorities and the Bavarian Justice Ministry.
Sent 9: Under the agreement, works owned by Gurlitt that were not under suspicion were returned to him.
Sent 10: Those suspected of being stolen were to be held securely while a task force investigates their provenance -- and will be returned to their original Jewish owners or their descendants if a claim is proven.
Sent 11: Gurlitt's representative said that with the art collector's death, the investigation into the collection ceases.
Sent 12: The court that was handling the investigation proceedings will now function as an estate court in the case.
Question: How old was the art collector Cornelius Gurlitt when he died? (A) At the age of 81 (B) 80 (C) 80 years old (D) 81.
answer:
| A, C.
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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
One example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Solution is here: D.
Explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Now, solve this: Paragraph- Sent 1: Federal agents on Tuesday raided a South Florida office of Dr. Salomon Melgen, an eye doctor whose past issues with authorities had already entangled Sen. Robert Menendez.
Sent 2: With yellow crime tape strung up outside, men and women lugged box after box of materials from Melgen's West Palm Beach office into awaiting minivans.
Sent 3: Both members of the federal Health and Human Services department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation took part in the search, which FBI Special Agent Michael Leverock said was the second at the same Melgen clinic -- the other coming last January.
Sent 4: "As this is part of an ongoing investigation, (authorities have) no further comment/information at this time," said Leverock.
Sent 5: That means no official details as to what authorities were looking for.
Sent 6: Even if it has nothing to do with his record as a generous political donor, Tuesday's raid suggests Melgen's legal troubles and perhaps their negative impact on Menendez, the senior U.S. senator from New Jersey are far from over.
Sent 7: Confessions show sex claims were 'false smears,' senator says The doctor's lawyer contended that Tuesday's search was the government's way of getting back at Melgen, after he sued over Medicare payments.
Sent 8: Even so, Matthew Menchel, the attorney, said that Melgen will continue to work with authorities.
Sent 9: "While we believe that today's intrusion was in retaliation and there was no legitimate need for the search, the FBI's actions will not prevent Dr. Melgen from continuing his full cooperation with the government," Menchel said.
Sent 10: The doctor first came to the attention of many around Washington when The Daily Caller, a conservative website, published a report shortly before the November 2012 election citing several Dominican women who claimed they'd had sex with Menendez for money.
Sent 11: The New Jersey Democrat staunchly denied the accusation.
Sent 12: And in March, Dominican police announced three women had been paid to claim -- falsely -- that they had sex with Menendez.
Sent 13: While that part of the story died down, the episode raised questions about why and how Menendez admittedly flew to the Dominican Republic three times in 2010 on Melgen's private plane.
Question: Where did the raid occur and which departments were asked to investigate it? (A) South Florida, Health and Human Services and FBI (B) South Florida, Health and Human Services department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (C) Boston, CIA.
Solution: | A, B. | 6 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Let me give you an example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
The answer to this example can be: D.
Here is why: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
OK. solve this:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Assisting Zionist causes Einstein was a figurehead leader in helping establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which opened in 1925, and was among its first Board of Governors.
Sent 2: Earlier, in 1921, he was asked by the biochemist and president of the World Zionist Organization, Chaim Weizmann, to help raise funds for the planned university.
Sent 3: He also submitted various suggestions as to its initial programs.
Sent 4: Among those, he advised first creating an Institute of Agriculture in order to settle the undeveloped land.
Sent 5: That should be followed, he suggested, by a Chemical Institute and an Institute of Microbiology, to fight the various ongoing epidemics such as malaria, which he called an "evil" that was undermining a third of the country's development.
Sent 6: Establishing an Oriental Studies Institute, to include language courses given in both Hebrew and Arabic, for scientific exploration of the country and its historical monuments, was also important.
Sent 7: Chaim Weizmann later became Israel's first president.
Sent 8: Upon his death while in office in November 1952 and at the urging of Ezriel Carlebach, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post.
Sent 9: The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer "embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons".
Sent 10: Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was "deeply moved", and "at once saddened and ashamed" that he could not accept it.
Question: Who presented the offer of the ceremonial position of president to Einstein? (A) Carlebach (B) The Jewish people (C) Prime Minister (D) Israel's ambassador in Washington (E) Abba Eban (F) Its sons (G) David Ben-Gurion.
Answer: | D, E. | 8 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Example input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Example output: D.
Example explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
Sent 2: According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest "would be happy and unvanquishable forever".
Sent 3: Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative.
Sent 4: While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Sent 5: His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least late Antiquity.
Sent 6: Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage.
Sent 7: The recent discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its original intent was to be the burial place of Alexander.
Sent 8: This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
Sent 9: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Sent 10: Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use.
Sent 11: Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public.
Sent 12: His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign.
Sent 13: After this, details on the fate of the tomb are hazy.
Sent 14: The so-called "Alexander Sarcophagus", discovered near Sidon and now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is so named not because it was thought to have contained Alexander's remains, but because its bas-reliefs depict Alexander and his companions fighting the Persians and hunting.
Sent 15: It was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the battle of Issus in 331.
Sent 16: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.
Question: What were the last known details of Alexander's sarcophagus? (A) Recently it is said that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death (B) Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public. His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign (C) It is the tomb of Abdalonymus, the king of Sidon.
A: | A, B. | 3 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge.
Sent 2: The answer is yes.
Sent 3: Lightning is a form of static discharge.
Sent 4: It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the same principle.
Sent 5: You can see how it occurs in the following diagram and animation.
Sent 6: You have no doubt seen lightning in a rainstorm.
Sent 7: What does lighting have to do with static electricity?
Sent 8: As it turns out, everything!
Sent 9: During a rainstorm, clouds develop regions of different charges.
Sent 10: This happens due to the movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles.
Sent 11: The negative charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds.
Sent 12: The positive charges are concentrated at the top.
Sent 13: The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below.
Sent 14: The ground then becomes positively charged.
Sent 15: Over time the differences increase.
Sent 16: Eventually the electrons are discharged.
Sent 17: This is what we see as lightning.
Sent 18: You can watch an awesome slow-motion lightning strike below.
Question: How is the top of a cloud different from the base of the cloud during a rainstorm? (A) The positive charges are concentrated at the top (B) Top of cloud is neutral in charge (C) Bottom of cloud has dormant charge (D) He negative charges repel electrons on the ground below (E) Top and bottom clouds have opposite charges (F) Top and bottom clouds are oppositely charged (G) Negative charges are concentrated at the cloud base and positive charges are concentrated at the top.
SOLUTION: A, E, F, G.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Conduction is the transfer of thermal energy.
Sent 2: It occurs between objects or substances that are touching.
Sent 3: Thermal conductors are materials that are good conductors of heat.
Sent 4: Thermal insulators are materials that are poor conductors of heat.
Sent 5: Both conductors and insulators have important uses.
Sent 6: Convection is the transfer of thermal energy.
Sent 7: This occurs as particles move within a fluid.
Sent 8: The fluid may be a liquid or a gas.
Sent 9: The particles within the fluid transfer energy by moving from warmer to cooler areas.
Sent 10: They move in loops.
Sent 11: These loops are called convection currents.
Sent 12: Radiation is the transfer of thermal energy by waves.
Sent 13: These waves can travel through empty space.
Sent 14: When the waves reach objects, the heat is transferred to the objects.
Sent 15: Radiation is how the Sun warms the Earths surface.
Question: Waves that transfer thermal energy through empty space are called (A) Convection (B) Conduction (C) Radiation.
SOLUTION: C.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Federal agents on Tuesday raided a South Florida office of Dr. Salomon Melgen, an eye doctor whose past issues with authorities had already entangled Sen. Robert Menendez.
Sent 2: With yellow crime tape strung up outside, men and women lugged box after box of materials from Melgen's West Palm Beach office into awaiting minivans.
Sent 3: Both members of the federal Health and Human Services department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation took part in the search, which FBI Special Agent Michael Leverock said was the second at the same Melgen clinic -- the other coming last January.
Sent 4: "As this is part of an ongoing investigation, (authorities have) no further comment/information at this time," said Leverock.
Sent 5: That means no official details as to what authorities were looking for.
Sent 6: Even if it has nothing to do with his record as a generous political donor, Tuesday's raid suggests Melgen's legal troubles and perhaps their negative impact on Menendez, the senior U.S. senator from New Jersey are far from over.
Sent 7: Confessions show sex claims were 'false smears,' senator says The doctor's lawyer contended that Tuesday's search was the government's way of getting back at Melgen, after he sued over Medicare payments.
Sent 8: Even so, Matthew Menchel, the attorney, said that Melgen will continue to work with authorities.
Sent 9: "While we believe that today's intrusion was in retaliation and there was no legitimate need for the search, the FBI's actions will not prevent Dr. Melgen from continuing his full cooperation with the government," Menchel said.
Sent 10: The doctor first came to the attention of many around Washington when The Daily Caller, a conservative website, published a report shortly before the November 2012 election citing several Dominican women who claimed they'd had sex with Menendez for money.
Sent 11: The New Jersey Democrat staunchly denied the accusation.
Sent 12: And in March, Dominican police announced three women had been paid to claim -- falsely -- that they had sex with Menendez.
Sent 13: While that part of the story died down, the episode raised questions about why and how Menendez admittedly flew to the Dominican Republic three times in 2010 on Melgen's private plane.
Question: Where did the raid occur and which departments were asked to investigate it? (A) South Florida, Health and Human Services and FBI (B) South Florida, Health and Human Services department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (C) Boston, CIA.
SOLUTION: | A, B.
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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Rivers flowing over gentle slopes move more slowly.
Sent 2: They move much more slowly than a mountain stream.
Sent 3: These slow moving streams create different types of features than mountain streams.
Sent 4: Slow moving water erodes the sides of their channels more than the bottom.
Sent 5: Also, large curves in the stream form.
Sent 6: These curves are called meanders.
Sent 7: Meanders are caused by erosion and deposition.
Sent 8: Remember, faster moving water causes erosion more quickly.
Sent 9: Slower moving water erodes material more slowly.
Sent 10: If water is moving slowly enough, the sediment being carried may settle out.
Sent 11: This settling out, or dropping off, of sediment is deposition.
Sent 12: The curves are called meanders because they slowly wander over the land.
Sent 13: As meanders erode from side to side, they create a floodplain.
Sent 14: This is a broad, flat area on both sides of a river.
Sent 15: Eventually, a meander may become cut off from the rest of the river.
Sent 16: This forms an oxbow lake.
Question: Do mountain streams flow more slowly than rivers flowing over gentle slopes? (A) No. (Rivers flowing over gentle slopes move much more slowly than mountain streams.) (B) They flow more slowly (C) They flow at the same speed (D) No (E) Yes (F) They flow faster (G) They move slower (H) They move faster.
Example Output: A, B, D, H.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground .
Sent 2: Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated .
Sent 3: While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself .
Sent 4: Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex .
Sent 5: Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site .
Sent 6: While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig .
Sent 7: Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off .
Sent 8: Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs .
Sent 9: In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world .
Sent 10: After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary .
Sent 11: After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again .
Sent 12: The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them .
Sent 13: Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him .
Sent 14: Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers .
Sent 15: During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary .
Question: Where did Holly go after she quit the expedition? (A) After (B) The town bar (C) Home (D) Hotel room (E) Club.
Example Output: B, D.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents.
Sent 2: President Alvaro Colom announced the 30-day emergency rule in Alta Verapaz on Sunday.
Sent 3: The rule allows the military to order anyone suspected of conspiring against the government to be arrested and imprisoned without a warrant, the state-run AGN news agency said.
Sent 4: "Starting today, combined forces will retake the streets of Alta Verapaz," a government statement released Sunday morning said.
Sent 5: Government data shows cells of the drug gang known as Los Zetas are in the area to protect drug trafficking paths between Honduras and Mexico, "intimidating the population with their heavy weapons and threatening farmers to give up their land for criminal activities," AGN reported.
Sent 6: The state of siege also allows the government to place greater restrictions on public gatherings, travel visas and gun licenses, among other things, according to AGN.
Sent 7: "The population should be calm.
Sent 8: What we are doing is not intended to persecute honest, working people," Interior Minister Carlos Menocal told reporters.
Sent 9: Menocal said operations in the coming days would aim to boost regional security, regain control of territory, identify criminal gangs and capture their members.
Sent 10: In an interview with CNN en Espanol last month, Menocal said his country needed more help from the United States to combat cartels, which were increasingly carving out new drug transport paths.
Sent 11: "In the end, the large majority of drugs travel through Central America, and the assignment of resources or the financial support of the United States government is not the same as Colombia and Mexico receive," he said.
Sent 12: Menocal said clashes between authorities and Los Zetas had notably increased.
Question: Why should the population remain calm? (A) To oppose the government (B) The population should remain calm because the actions are not meant to persecute honest working people (C) To support the gang.
Example Output: | B.
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Teacher: You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Solution: D.
Reason: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Now, solve this instance: Paragraph- Sent 1: Renewable resources can be renewed as they are used.
Sent 2: An example is timber, which comes from trees.
Sent 3: New trees can be planted to replace those that are cut down.
Sent 4: Sunlight is a renewable resource.
Sent 5: It seems we will never run out of that!
Sent 6: Just because a resource is renewable, it doesnt mean we should use it carelessly.
Sent 7: If we aren't careful, we can pollute resources.
Sent 8: Then they may no longer be fit for use.
Sent 9: Water is one example.
Sent 10: If we pollute a water source it may not be usable for drinking, bathing, or any other type of use.
Sent 11: We can also overuse resources that should be renewable.
Sent 12: In this case, the resources may not be able to recover.
Sent 13: For example, fish are renewable resources.
Sent 14: Thats because they can reproduce and make more fish.
Sent 15: But water pollution and overfishing can cause them to die out if their population becomes too low.
Sent 16: Figure 2.16 shows another example.
Question: What renewable resource can be affect by water pollution and overuse? (A) Renewable resources can be renewed as they are used (B) Fish (C) Eems we will never run out of that! (D) Not be usable for drinking, bathing, or any other type of use (E) Sunlight.
Student: | A, B, D. | 2 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
instruction:
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
question:
Paragraph- Sent 1: The Dutch Take Over: Intent on capturing a piece of the Portuguese trade in pepper and other spices, the Java-based Dutch Ailied with the Malays in 1633 to blockade Melaka.
Sent 2: The trade blockade was to last eight years, and ended in a seven-month siege.
Sent 3: The Portuguese surrendered in 1641, wracked by malaria and dysentery and denied their usual reinforcements from Goa.
Sent 4: By then, the city had become a stagnant backwater.
Sent 5: Unlike the Portuguese, the Dutch decided to do business with the Malays of Johor, who controlled the southern half of the peninsula together with Singapore and the neighboring Riau islands.
Sent 6: A trade treaty gave the Dutch command of the spice trade but reserved Johor's rights in tin exports from Perak, Selangor, and Klang.
Sent 7: Without ever retrieving the supremacy of the old Melaka sultanate, Johor had become the strongest Asian power in the region.
Sent 8: For the Dutch, Johor provided a buffer against other Europeans.
Sent 9: Meanwhile, fresh blood came in with the migration into the southern interior of hardy Minangkabau farmers from Sumatra, while tough Bugis warriors from the east Indonesian Celebes (Sulawesi) roved the length and breadth of the peninsula.
Sent 10: The Minangkabau custom of freely electing their leaders provided the model for rulership elections in modern federal Malaysia.
Sent 11: Their confederation of States became today's Negeri Sembilan ("Nine States"), with Seremban as its capital.
Sent 12: The name Minangkabau itself means roughly "buffalo horns" and is reflected in the distinctive upward curving roof in museums and government offices built in the traditional Minangkabau style.
Sent 13: The Bugis were energetic merchants and great sailors.
Sent 14: With the Dutch concentrating once more on Java and the Moluccas in the 18th century, the Bugis took advantage of the vacuum by raiding Perak and Kedah, imposing their chieftains in Selangor and becoming the power behind the throne in Johor.
Sent 15: The Bugis in Johor's administration provided much of the spirit in that State's independent stand in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sent 16: Throughout this period, the east coast states enjoyed a relatively tranquil prosperity, Terengganu notably thriving from its textile industry and trading in pepper and gold with the Thais, Cambodians, and Chinese.
Sent 17: The British, under the private auspices of the East India Company (EIC), were beginning to poke their noses into North Borneo.
Question: The Java-based Dutch and the Malays expected their blockade against Melaka to last how long? (A) Over 8 years (B) 8 years (C) Seven months (D) 7 months (E) Eight years.
answer:
B, E.
question:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).
Question: Was the New York Manumission Society founded before or after the 1787 Constitutional Convention? (A) Before (B) After.
answer:
A.
question:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Paris, France (CNN) -- Hundreds of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar factory, were holding executives of the company hostage Tuesday, a spokesman for the workers said.
Sent 2: Caterpillar's French staff say they are angry about a lack of negotiations over layoffs.
Sent 3: It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened with cutbacks have blockaded managers in their offices to demand negotiations.
Sent 4: Executives were released unharmed in both previous situations.
Sent 5: The latest incident started Tuesday morning at the office of the construction equipment company in the southeastern city of Grenoble.
Sent 6: The workers were angry that Caterpillar had proposed cutting more than 700 jobs and would not negotiate, said Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union.
Sent 7: They did not want to harm the Caterpillar executives, Benoit told CNN.
Sent 8: One hostage was released Tuesday evening leaving workers with four captives inside the Caterpillar building.
Sent 9: The released man was a human resources director identified only as Mr. Petit, because he has heart problems, union representative Bernard Patrick told CNN.
Sent 10: Petit had a heart attack a few weeks ago, Patrick said.
Sent 11: The four others still being held are Nicolas Polutnik, the head of operations; two other executives; and Petit's personal assistant, he said.
Sent 12: About 500 employees were also outside the building protesting.
Question: What is the nationality of the workers? (A) French (B) English (C) Polish (D) Norwegian.
answer:
| A.
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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: The film opens with Sunita , a medical student , and her friends working on a project about the human brain .
Sent 2: She wants to investigate the curious case of Sanjay Singhania , a notable city businessman , who is reported to have anterograde amnesia .
Sent 3: Her professor denies access to Sanjay's records as it is currently under criminal investigation .
Sent 4: Sunita , nonetheless , decides to investigate the matter herself .
Sent 5: Sanjay is introduced as he brutally murders a man .
Sent 6: He takes a Polaroid picture of the man , and writes on it `` done '' .
Sent 7: It is revealed that Sanjay has anterograde amnesia where he loses his memory every 15 minutes .
Sent 8: Sanjay uses a system of photographs , notes , and tattoos on his body to recover his memory after each cycle .
Sent 9: It is revealed that Sanjay is ultimately out to avenge the death of his sweetheart Kalpana , and that he is systematically killing the people who were responsible for it .
Sent 10: His main target is `` Ghajini '' , a notable social personality in the city .
Sent 11: Police Inspector Arjun Yadav , on the case of the serial murders , tracks Sanjay down to his flat and attacks and disables him .
Sent 12: Yadav finds two diaries where Sanjay has chronicled the events of 2005 and 2006 .
Sent 13: The film flashes back to 2005 as Yadav reads the diary .
Sent 14: Sanjay Singhania is shown as the owner of the Air Voice mobile telephone company .
Sent 15: In the course of his business , Sanjay sends his men to meet Kalpana , a struggling model , about putting up a billboard above her apartment .
Sent 16: The owner of Kalpana's advertising firm misinterprets this as a romantic advance , and in view of a possible lucrative Air Voice ad campaign and other benefits , encourages Kalpana to accept the overture .
Question: Which person investigates the case of Sanjay Singhania? (A) Sanjay (B) Sunita (C) The professor (D) Ghajini (E) Kalpana.
[EX A]: B.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: When you get sick, your body springs to action.
Sent 2: Your body starts to fight the illness.
Sent 3: Thats why you want to eat right and get plenty of sleep.
Sent 4: You need a strong immune system to fight off illness.
Sent 5: Plants dont have an immune system.
Sent 6: That does not mean they do not get sick.
Sent 7: Plants are affected by disease just like us.
Sent 8: Typically, their first line of defense is the death of part of the plant.
Sent 9: This prevents the infection from spreading.
Sent 10: Many plants also produce special chemicals to fight disease.
Sent 11: For example, willow trees produce a chemical to kill the bacteria.
Sent 12: The same compound is used in many acne products.
Sent 13: You can see a picture of a willow tree in Figure Plants may be smarter than we think.
Sent 14: No, they cannot talk to each other.
Sent 15: They may be able to send messages, though.
Question: What typically happens in a plant first to prevent an infection from spreading? (A) Having some rest (B) Goes dormant (C) Hibernates (D) A part of the plant dies (E) Drops leaves (F) Death of part of the plant.
[EX A]: D, F.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Mary, Queen of Scots: The baby was Mary Stuart, who at the age of nine months was crowned Queen of Scots at the Chapel Royal, Stirling.
Sent 2: When the news reached London, Henry VIII saw his chance to subdue Scotland again and negotiated a marriage between the infant Mary and his son Edward.
Sent 3: The Scots refused, and Henry sent an army rampaging through Scotland on a campaign known as the "Rough Wooing.
Sent 4: " The English king ordered his general to "burn Edinburgh town so there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon the Scots.
Sent 5: " But more was at stake than simply Scotland's independence: there was now a religious schism within Britain.
Sent 6: In order to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII had broken with Rome and brought the English church under his own control.
Sent 7: England was thus now a Protestant country, caught between Catholic France and the Scots with their new Catholic queen.
Sent 8: The Scots themselves were divided, many embracing Protestantism in the spirit of the Reformation while others remained staunchly Catholic.
Sent 9: However, fear of the rampaging English army led the Scots again to seek help from their old Ailies in France, and the young queen married the Dauphin François, son of the French king.
Sent 10: François II became king of France in 1559 but died soon after.
Sent 11: In 1561 the 18-year-old Mary returned to a Scotland in the grip of the Reformation, as Protestant leaders had taken control of the Scottish parliament and abolished the authority of the pope.
Sent 12: Her Protestant cousin, Elizabeth Tudor, was on the English throne, but Elizabeth — the "Virgin Queen" — had no heir.
Sent 13: Mary was next in line for the English crown, and Elizabeth was suspicious of her intentions.
Sent 14: The six years of Mary's reign were turbulent ones.
Sent 15: She clashed early on with Edinburgh's famous Protestant reformer, John Knox, who held sway in St. Giles but later adopted an uneasy policy of religious tolerance.
Sent 16: In 1565 she married her young cousin Henry, Lord Darnley, much to the chagrin of Elizabeth (Darnley was a grandson of Margaret Tudor and thus also had a claim to the English throne).
Sent 17: On 19 June 1566, in the royal apartments in Edinburgh Castle, Mary gave birth to a son, Prince James.
Sent 18: Within a year, however, Darnley was murdered, and Mary immediately immersed herself in controversy by marrying the Earl of Bothwell, the chief suspect.
Question: Who was the father of Prince James? (A) Lord Darnley (B) Henry (C) Henry, Lord Darnley was the father of Prince James (D) Henry VII (E) Earl of Bothwell was the father of Prince James.
[EX A]: | A, B, C.
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Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Output: D.
Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
New input case for you: Paragraph- Sent 1: Tim had always a red bike.
Sent 2: His birthday party was coming up and he hoped that his parents would finally get him the bike.
Sent 3: When his friends came over for the party, Tim was very worried that he wouldn't get the bike.
Sent 4: He looked at all the presents and none of them seemed big enough to have a bike in them.
Sent 5: Tim was sad.
Sent 6: When it was time to open the presents he opened them one at a time.
Sent 7: The first present was not a bike.
Sent 8: The second present was not a bike.
Sent 9: The third present was the biggest one.
Sent 10: Tim knew if the bike was going to be in any of the presents it was going to be in this box.
Sent 11: Tim opened it and there was no bike inside.
Sent 12: Just as Tim tried not to look too upset, his Dad brought in the biggest present of them all.
Sent 13: His Dad had been hiding the present all along.
Sent 14: Tim opened it and his new bike was inside the box.
Sent 15: Tim put the bike together with his Dad's help.
Question: Why was Tim sad? (A) No presents looked like a bike (B) His dad wasn't there (C) The bike was the wrong color (D) He thought he wasnt getting the bike (E) Presents were small (F) He wanted cake (G) He was worried that he would not get the bike, and none of the boxes looked big enough to be the bike he wanted.
Output: | A, D, E, G. | 1 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: You approach the door of your friends house.
Sent 2: What is the first thing you do before entering?
Sent 3: Of course, you wipe your feet.
Sent 4: You are a thoughtful visitor.
Sent 5: Fortunately, there is a nice piece of carpet by the door to wipe your shoes.
Sent 6: Too bad your caring comes at a price.
Sent 7: After wiping your feet on the mat you reach out to touch the brass knocker on the door.
Sent 8: A spark suddenly jumps between your hand and the metal.
Sent 9: You feel an electric shock.
Sent 10: Why do you think an electric shock occurs?
Sent 11: An electric shock occurs when there is a sudden discharge of static electricity.
Sent 12: Has this ever happened to you?
Sent 13: You reached out to touch a metal doorknob and received an unpleasant electric shock?
Sent 14: The reason you get a shock is because of moving electric charges.
Sent 15: Moving electric charges also create lightning bolts.
Sent 16: It is also the same reason electric current flows through cables and wires.
Question: You get shocked because of moving electric charges and moving electric charges also creates what? (A) Lightning bolts (B) Lightening bolts (C) Lightning (D) Irritation (E) Pain (F) Water to rise (G) Earthquake (H) Fire (I) Short circuit (J) Bolts.
[EX A]: A, B, C, J.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: What if you could drain all of Earths oceans?
Sent 2: What would it look like?
Sent 3: You might be really surprised.
Sent 4: You see that the surface has two main features.
Sent 5: It has continents and ocean basins.
Sent 6: Continents are large land areas.
Sent 7: These are the areas that are mostly above sea level.
Sent 8: Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents.
Sent 9: They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches.
Sent 10: You will also notice the ocean floor is not flat.
Sent 11: It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins.
Sent 12: Some rocks on the continents are billions of years old.
Sent 13: Ocean basins may only be millions of years old.
Sent 14: Because the continents are so old, a lot has happened to them!
Sent 15: As we view the land around us, we see landforms.
Sent 16: Landforms are physical features on Earths surface.
Sent 17: These features change over time, but how?
Sent 18: There are actually two types of forces at work.
Question: Which are older: continents or ocean basins? (A) Surface (B) Ocean basins (C) Continents.
[EX A]: C.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Sara wanted to play on a baseball team.
Sent 2: She had never tried to swing a bat and hit a baseball before.
Sent 3: Her Dad gave her a bat and together they went to the park to practice.
Sent 4: Sara wondered if she could hit a ball.
Sent 5: She wasn't sure if she would be any good.
Sent 6: She really wanted to play on a team and wear a real uniform.
Sent 7: She couldn't wait to get to the park and test out her bat.
Sent 8: When Sara and her Dad reached the park, Sara grabbed the bat and stood a few steps away from her Dad.
Sent 9: Sara waited as her Dad pitched the ball to her.
Sent 10: Her heart was beating fast.
Sent 11: She missed the first few pitches.
Sent 12: She felt like quitting but kept trying.
Sent 13: Soon she was hitting the ball very far.
Sent 14: She was very happy and she couldn't wait to sign up for a real team.
Sent 15: Her Dad was very proud of her for not giving up.
Question: Why do you think Sara missed the first few pitches? (A) Her heart was beating fast (B) Because she had never tried to swing a bat and hit a baseball before (C) She didn't want to really play (D) Because she was nervous and never had practiced baseball before (E) Because of the weather conditions (F) The bat was broken (G) Because of her physical disability.
[EX A]: | A, B, D.
| 6 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
Teacher: You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Solution: D.
Reason: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Now, solve this instance: Paragraph- Sent 1: The city of Edinburgh grew up around the steep, ragged cliff of the Castle Rock and its easily defended summit.
Sent 2: Archaeological excavations have revealed evidence of habitation here as long ago as 900 b.c.
Sent 3: Very little, however, is known about the Rock and its inhabitants in the centuries between its first occupation and the time of the MacAlpin kings.
Sent 4: A few shadowy details have been left to us by the Romans and by an epic poem from the seventh century.
Sent 5: Romans and Britons The Romans invaded Scotland in a.d.
Sent 6: 78–84, where they met a fierce group called the Picts, whom they drove north.
Sent 7: They consolidated their gains by building Antonine's Wall across the waist of Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the River Clyde in about a.d.
Sent 8: Roman legions encountered the strongholds of the Castle Rock and Arthur's Seat, held by a tribe of ancient Britons known as the Votadini.
Sent 9: Little is recorded about this group, but they were probably the ancestors of the Gododdin, whose feats are told in a seventh-century Old Welsh manuscript.
Sent 10: The capital of the Gododdin was Din Eidyn (the "Fort of Eidyn," almost certainly the Castle Rock), whose name lives on in the Edin- of Edinburgh.
Sent 11: Din Eidyn fell to the Angles in 638 and became part of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria.
Sent 12: It was the first of many times that the Fort of Eidyn would change hands between the kingdoms of the north and the south.
Sent 13: The MacAlpin Kings Four distinct peoples once inhabited the land now known as Scotland: the Picts in the north, the Britons in the southwest, the invading Angles in the southeast, and the Scots in the west.
Sent 14: The Scots were Gaelic-speaking immigrants from the north of Ireland.
Sent 15: Kenneth MacAlpin, who ruled as king of Scots at Dunadd, acquired the Pictish throne in 843, uniting Scotland north of the River Forth into a single kingdom.
Sent 16: He moved his capital — along with the Stone of Destiny (on which Scottish kings were crowned) — to the sacred Pict site of Scone, close to Perth.
Sent 17: His great-great-great-grandson, Malcolm II (1005–1034), defeated the Angles at the Battle of Carham in 1018 and extended Scottish territory as far south as the River Tweed.
Question: When the Romans invaded Scotland in A.D. 78-84, which group did they drive out? (A) Scone (B) Scotts (C) The Scots (D) The Picts (E) The Britons (F) The Votadini.
Student: | D. | 2 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker.
Sent 2: The officers unloaded 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said.
Sent 3: Three passersby sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Sent 4: All injuries were caused by police, he said Saturday.
Sent 5: One officer shot nine rounds and another shot seven.
Sent 6: Police identified the gunman as Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year.
Sent 7: Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol.
Sent 8: It holds eight, Kelly said.
Sent 9: Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him.
Sent 10: Both men had filed harassment complaints against each other in April 2011, Kelly added.
Sent 11: Ercolino was listed as a vice president of sales at Hazan Import Corp., according to his LinkedIn profile.
Sent 12: "It's not something that should happen to a loving person like that," said his brother, Paul.
Sent 13: "He's going to be so missed by everybody.
Sent 14: He was a light of so many lives.".
Question: What type of weapon did Jeffery Johnson, the gunman, possess? (A) Rifle (B) Shotgun (C) .45 caliber pistol (D) 16 round pistol (E) Caliber pistol.
Ex Output:
C.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.
Question: Sergei Bezrukov portrayed Pushkin onscreen in what film? (A) The last poet (B) Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Ex Output:
B.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: For the past 20 years, attorney Richard M. Smith has helped senior citizens with their legal needs, free of charge.
Sent 2: But Smith, like many volunteers, doesn't want any accolades.
Sent 3: "I'm no saint," the 80-year-old Tallahasseean said.
Sent 4: "I'm just a country lawyer."Sent 5: His assistant, attorney Twyla Sketchley, sat behind his shoulder and silently mouthed, "He is a saint."Sent 6: Every month, Smith visits the Smith Williams Center in the Bond community and the Wakulla County Senior Citizens Council building in Crawfordville to advise seniors on wills, power of attorney and other legal matters.
Sent 7: Smith practiced law for a living until 1982.
Sent 8: Since then, he's been semi-retired, devoting himself to helping fellow seniors who are needy.
Sent 9: "I'm getting unable to do much physically, but my brain hasn't quit," said Smith, who walks with a cane.
Sent 10: "And I'd rather people ask a foolish question now than have them make a dumb mistake later."Sent 11: Smith and Sketchley helped Beatrice Jackson at the Smith Williams Center on Wednesday.
Sent 12: Jackson, who said she was "over 60," needed help with estate planning.
Sent 13: "He's not through with me yet ... but he's done a real good job," said Jackson, a retired state worker.
Sent 14: Over the years, Smith said, he's helped clients with not only wills but also adoptions, divorces and even animal control cases.
Sent 15: "Someone's cat was bit by a dog, as I recall," he said.
Sent 16: Smith coordinates his volunteer lawyering through Legal Services of North Florida, a nonprofit organization serving low-income families and individuals.
Sent 17: "He's such a fine, fine person," said executive director Kris Knab.
Sent 18: Without him, "There would be a huge (number) of people who would go without assistance.
Question: How did Richard help Beatrice Jackson? (A) Helper her with estate planning (B) He helped her with estate planning (C) Lent her a huge amount of money (D) Estate planning (E) Helped her with her divorce (F) A dog bit her (G) She's dying (H) With her dog bite.
Ex Output:
| A, B, D.
| 1 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
One example is below.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
A: D.
Rationale: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Billy had a pet turtle that he took good care of, everyday.
Sent 2: His turtle's name was Tumble.
Sent 3: Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in.
Sent 4: Billy loved Tumble and would visit him outside when he got home from school.
Sent 5: Tumble's favorite food was oatmeal.
Sent 6: So, every day after school, Billy would make Tumble a big bowl of oatmeal and take it outside for Tumble to enjoy.
Sent 7: Tumble would see Billy and walk up to him as fast as a turtle can go.
Sent 8: Billy would put the bowl down and wait for Tumble to come up to the bowl to eat from it.
Sent 9: When Tumble reached the bowl, he put his nose on it.
Sent 10: But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat.
Sent 11: Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat.
Sent 12: Once the oatmeal was cool enough, Tumble could dig in and eat his big bowl of oatmeal.
Sent 13: Billy loved to watch as Tumble ate his bowl of oatmeal, because Billy took good care of Tumble, everyday.
Question: Why did Tumble not eat his oatmeal and what did Billy do about it? (A) But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat. Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat (B) It was too cold and billy had to warm it up (C) It was too hot and billy had to blow on it.
A: | A, C. | 9 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Albrecht Durer (/'dU@r@r, 'djU@r@r/; German: ['albRect 'dy:Ra]; 21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Sent 2: Born in Nuremberg, Durer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
Sent 3: He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I. His vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books.
Sent 4: The woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.
Sent 5: His well-known engravings include the Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation.
Sent 6: His watercolours also mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.
Sent 7: Durer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
Sent 8: This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.
Question: In what town and in what year was Durer born? (A) Nuremberg, 1471 (B) Italian, 1514 (C) European 1498.
A: A.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: "They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate," she said.
Sent 6: "Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation."Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: "When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was $50 but that was $50 well spent to me," said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: "For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her."Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: "Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation," she said.
Sent 15: "Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney."Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.
Question: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program received hundreds of thousands of dollars from what government entity? (A) US Education Department (B) US Justice Departmemt (C) Local funds of Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula.
A: B.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Billy had a pet turtle that he took good care of, everyday.
Sent 2: His turtle's name was Tumble.
Sent 3: Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in.
Sent 4: Billy loved Tumble and would visit him outside when he got home from school.
Sent 5: Tumble's favorite food was oatmeal.
Sent 6: So, every day after school, Billy would make Tumble a big bowl of oatmeal and take it outside for Tumble to enjoy.
Sent 7: Tumble would see Billy and walk up to him as fast as a turtle can go.
Sent 8: Billy would put the bowl down and wait for Tumble to come up to the bowl to eat from it.
Sent 9: When Tumble reached the bowl, he put his nose on it.
Sent 10: But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat.
Sent 11: Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat.
Sent 12: Once the oatmeal was cool enough, Tumble could dig in and eat his big bowl of oatmeal.
Sent 13: Billy loved to watch as Tumble ate his bowl of oatmeal, because Billy took good care of Tumble, everyday.
Question: Why did Tumble not eat his oatmeal and what did Billy do about it? (A) But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat. Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat (B) It was too cold and billy had to warm it up (C) It was too hot and billy had to blow on it.
A: | A, C.
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| 4 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
One example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Solution is here: D.
Explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Now, solve this: Paragraph- Sent 1: Sometimes a full Moon moves through Earths shadow.
Sent 2: This is a lunar eclipse .
Sent 3: During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon travels completely in Earths umbra.
Sent 4: During a partial lunar eclipse, only a portion of the Moon enters Earths umbra.
Sent 5: When the Moon passes through Earths penumbra, it is a penumbral eclipse.
Sent 6: Since Earths shadow is large, a lunar eclipse lasts for hours.
Sent 7: Anyone with a view of the Moon can see a lunar eclipse.
Sent 8: So unlike a solar eclipse, it doesnt get dark on Earth.
Sent 9: Instead it gets dark on the Moon.
Sent 10: Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common.
Sent 11: The Moon glows with a dull red coloring during a total lunar eclipse.
Question: What is a lunar eclipse? (A) When the full move passes through moon's shadow (B) The Moon travels completely in Earths umbra (C) When the full move passes through earth's bright side (D) When the moon moves through the earth's shaddow (E) It is a full Moon moves through Earths shadow.
Solution: | D, E. | 6 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
Detailed Instructions: You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
See one example below:
Problem: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Solution: D.
Explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Problem: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- A federal court jury in Florida convicted seven people of participating in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise, according to the Department of Justice.
Sent 2: Jurors convicted the seven Wednesday of multiple counts of child exploitation, pornography and obstruction of justice.
Sent 3: Members of the organization used Internet news groups to swap and share "illegal images and videos depicting prepubescent children, including toddlers, engaged in various sexual and sadistic acts," prosecutors said.
Sent 4: An indictment filed in the case detailed interactions between group members as they swapped and commented on images.
Sent 5: "My thanks to you and all the others that together make this the greatest group of pedos to ever gather in one place," Freeman wrote in response to one posting, according to the indictment.
Sent 6: And a posting from Castleman, cited in the indictment, read, "Thanks to all for the wonderful material that has been posted."Sent 7: An Australian constable who infiltrated the group in August 2006 was among 50 witnesses testifying at trial.
Sent 8: He told the jury that the group traded more than 400,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse before being dismantled by law enforcement, according to the Justice Department statement.
Sent 9: Each defendant faces a sentence of 20 years to life in prison, fines and the possibility of supervised release for the rest of their lives, authorities said.
Sent 10: The seven will be sentenced April 14.
Sent 11: During the six-day trial, evidence showed the seven participated in what prosecutors called a "well-organized criminal enterprise whose purpose was to proliferate child sex abuse images to its membership during a two-year period."Sent 12: "This was a wide-scale, high-volume, international trafficking enterprise that used sophisticated computer encryption technology and file-sharing techniques," Matthew Friedrich, acting assistant attorney general, said in the statement.
Sent 13: The seven defendants were James Freeman of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida; Gary Lakey of Anderson, Indiana; Marvin Lambert of Indianapolis, Indiana; Neville McGarity of Medina, Texas; Warren Mumpower of Spokane, Washington; Daniel Castleman of Lubbock, Texas; and Ronald White of Burlington, North Carolina, according to the Department of Justice.
Question: When will Daniel Castleman of Lubbock, Texas be sentenced? (A) April 14 (B) He will not be sentenced (C) June 06 (D) In the next year (E) On Dec 20th (F) On August 2006.
Solution: | A. | 4 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
instruction:
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
question:
Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit.
Sent 2: But after three long years, NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance.
Sent 3: Orion, the agency's newest manned spaceship, is being prepared for its first mission in December.
Sent 4: In future missions, it will journey into deep space -- to Mars and beyond -- farther than humans have ever gone before.
Sent 5: Orion comes loaded with superlatives.
Sent 6: It boasts the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles.
Sent 7: It will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made.
Sent 8: No astronauts will be aboard the December flight, which will test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions.
Sent 9: Final work on the spacecraft is under way at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Sent 10: Orion came one step closer to completion this month with the stacking of the crew module atop the service module.
Sent 11: "Now that we're getting so close to launch, the spacecraft completion work is visible every day," Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer said in a statement.
Sent 12: A 3,600-mile journey When complete, the Orion capsule will resemble a fencing foil, with a tall spire shooting up from a rounded base.
Sent 13: At the top will sit a launch abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction.
Sent 14: The bottom portion, the service module, will perform various functions such as in-space propulsion and cargo storage.
Sent 15: Nestled between the two will be the crew module, capable of supporting human life from launch until recovery.
Sent 16: Attached to the service module will be a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket.
Sent 17: For the first time since the space shuttle's debut launch in 1981, the crew compartment will ride on the tip of the rocket rather than hanging onto its side, evoking the configuration of the famous Apollo or Gemini missions.
Question: What is significant about the Orion? (A) There won't be noastronauts on it (B) It will ride one of the most powerful rocket NASA has ever designed (C) The service module can perform various functions (D) NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance (E) Its computere is less than 400 times faster than the shuttle's (F) The crew compartment will ride on the tip of the rocket rather than hanging onto its side, evoking the configuration of the famous Apollo or Gemini missions (G) It returns the astronauts to being on top of the rocket (H) The Orion has the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles, and it will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made (I) It has the largest heat shield (J) It can travel 3,600 miles.
answer:
B, F, H, I.
question:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Catherine V. "Ginny" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent.
Sent 2: Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award.
Sent 3: The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque.
Sent 4: "Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense," said Davis.
Sent 5: "Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most."Sent 6: "This award means a great deal to me," Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored.
Sent 7: "The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored."Sent 8: After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school.
Sent 9: Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978.
Sent 10: Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project.
Sent 11: Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state.
Sent 12: She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic.
Sent 13: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Sent 14: Kilgore says she's found her niche.
Sent 15: "I've always thought it was important to do work to help people.
Sent 16: I really enjoy it.
Sent 17: The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family."Sent 18: She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college.
Question: In what parts of UM law school has she worked? (A) Business Law (B) Arbitration Law Clinic (C) Bankruptcy Law (D) Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, Civic Law Clinic, and Elder Law clinic (E) Human Rights Law Clinic (F) Civil Law Clinic (G) Criminal Law Clinic (H) The elder law clinic and the civic law clinic (I) Criminal Law.
answer:
D, F, H.
question:
Paragraph- Sent 1: I had drunk too much, I confess, though we all had.
Sent 2: Somehow, Tasha and I began to argue the worth of Solevgrad jazz, as inconsequential a topic as I can imagine.
Sent 3: She had studied it in school, so she thought herself as an expert.
Sent 4: I once had a neighbor who played it constantly, loudly, and badly, so I thought I knew it better.
Sent 5: Malaquez tried to mediate, but I saw him as siding with Tasha.
Sent 6: So, I think, did she.
Sent 7: The subject shifted from music to Tasha's obsession with fame, undoubtedly by a leap that I made.
Sent 8: She had no choice but to follow.
Sent 9: (I do not remember any of this well, just now, nor do I care to.
Sent 10: Those who are truly curious may look at the last act of "Captured Moments.") I remember suggesting, with characteristic tact, that she add Emil to her small list of major accomplishments.
Sent 11: Malaquez glanced away, embarrassed.
Sent 12: Tasha looked at me as if to say, "I will."Sent 13: She said, "I feel sorry for you, Nardo.
Sent 14: I'll see Emil home."Sent 15: "Yes," I said, "Do that," and did not care what she did, or why.
Sent 16: Emil asked, "You're all right?"Sent 17: I muttered something he must have interpreted as assent.
Sent 18: They both walked up to Emil's home while I watched the scarlet moonlight ripple on distant waves.
Sent 19: Disgusted with Tasha but more disgusted with myself, I finally realized she would not return that night and went into The Sleeping Flamingo to drink myself to sleep.
Sent 20: She had not come home when I woke in mid-morning.
Question: On which topic did Tasha think of herself as an expert because she studied it in school? (A) The play "Captured Moments" (B) Solevgrad jazz (C) An inconsequential topic (D) Obsession (E) Fame.
answer:
| B.
| 9 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Example solution: D.
Example explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Problem: Paragraph- Sent 1: Women and minorities appear to be benefiting from greater employment opportunities in the United States, but discrimination remains a significant problem, according to a study to be released today by two professors at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark.
Sent 2: The study, which extrapolated from federal data on about 200,000 large and midsize employers, concludes that about two million workers were affected by intentional discrimination in 1999.
Sent 3: Roughly a third of the employers studied appeared to have discriminated against women or minorities in at least one job category, the authors said The study was based on information collected from employers by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1990 through 1999 on so-called EEO-1 forms.
Sent 4: The husband-and-wife team of Alfred W. and Ruth G. Blumrosen then looked at how many women or minority workers a company employed in different job categories compared with how many were employed at other companies in the same industry in the same geographic area.
Sent 5: They described a company as an intentional discriminator if its employment of women or minorities was at least two standard deviations from the average.
Sent 6: Legally, companies are presumed to discriminate if their employment numbers are far below the norm.
Sent 7: About 22,000 employers were identified as "hard core" discriminators.
Sent 8: These companies employed below-average numbers of women and minorities for 10 years and their hiring of women or minorities was so far below the averages that there was only one chance in a hundred that the discrimination occurred randomly.
Sent 9: The study also found rising employment for women and minorities, suggesting significant progress in the workplace.
Sent 10: The names of the companies are confidential and were not known to the researchers.
Sent 11: The professors expect to make their study available through a Web site, www.eeo1.com.
Sent 12: The Blumrosens, who were instrumental in setting up the E.E.O.C. in 1965, also say the government should make more active use of their data.
Sent 13: The commission said it did not comment on draft reports.
Question: How many companies were found to be discriminatory and for what reason(s)? (A) 20,000, because of significant progress in the workplace (B) 200,000, because the discrimination occurred randomly (C) About 22,000 companies, according to standards they hired far less miniorities in a 10 year period, (D) 10,000, due to descrimination against men.
| Solution: C. | 5 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.
Question: The biographical film based on Pushkin's life was directed by who? (A) Natalya Bondarchuk (B) Jack Black.
Output: A.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- The photographer who took images of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto moments before her assassination Thursday told CNN he was "surprised" to see her rise through the sunroof of her vehicle to wave to supporters after delivering her speech.
Sent 2: Getty Images photographer John Moore captured Benazir Bhutto waving, moments before he heard gunshots.
Sent 3: "I ran up, got as close as I got, made a few pictures of her waving to the crowd," Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore told CNN's online streaming news service, CNN.com Live, in a phone interview Thursday from Islamabad, Pakistan.
Sent 4: "And then suddenly, there were a few gunshots that rang out, and she went down, she went down through the sunroof," he said.
Sent 5: "And just at that moment I raised my camera up and the blast happened.
Sent 6: ... And then, of course, there was chaos."Sent 7: Watch Moore describe Bhutto's final moments » Moore said he was about 20 yards away from Bhutto's vehicle when he took his photographs.
Sent 8: Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Sent 9: Moore said he had been following Bhutto's story since her return to Pakistan in October.
Sent 10: He was present October 19 when a terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi killed 136 people.
Sent 11: In the aftermath of that attack, "The rallies had been very small," because of high security, Moore said.
Sent 12: However, the Rawalpindi rally was announced beforehand, he observed.
Sent 13: "Whoever planned this attack -- they had time on their hands to plan everything properly, and you saw the results today," he said.
Sent 14: Between 5,000 and 8,000 were at the Rawalpindi rally, which was held at a parkground, he said.
Sent 15: "We [the news media] all expected it to be filled ... but there were less people there than most of us expected to see," he said.
Sent 16: "When I talked with a number of people, they said that people were just afraid to come out, for the simple reason that they all remembered what happened in Karachi."Sent 17: Moore said he himself expected there could be another attack following the Karachi massacre.
Sent 18: He said he stayed away from gates at the Rawalpindi parkground, where police were searching people, because he suspected that's where a bomb would go off.
Question: Was Bhutto pronounced dead at Delhi's General Medical? (A) No- at Karachi General Hospital (B) Where she was pronounced dead (C) Following Bhutto's story (D) Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital (E) Yes (F) No- at Rawalpindi General Hospital (G) No, at Islamabad General Hospital.
Output: F.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Women and minorities appear to be benefiting from greater employment opportunities in the United States, but discrimination remains a significant problem, according to a study to be released today by two professors at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark.
Sent 2: The study, which extrapolated from federal data on about 200,000 large and midsize employers, concludes that about two million workers were affected by intentional discrimination in 1999.
Sent 3: Roughly a third of the employers studied appeared to have discriminated against women or minorities in at least one job category, the authors said The study was based on information collected from employers by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1990 through 1999 on so-called EEO-1 forms.
Sent 4: The husband-and-wife team of Alfred W. and Ruth G. Blumrosen then looked at how many women or minority workers a company employed in different job categories compared with how many were employed at other companies in the same industry in the same geographic area.
Sent 5: They described a company as an intentional discriminator if its employment of women or minorities was at least two standard deviations from the average.
Sent 6: Legally, companies are presumed to discriminate if their employment numbers are far below the norm.
Sent 7: About 22,000 employers were identified as "hard core" discriminators.
Sent 8: These companies employed below-average numbers of women and minorities for 10 years and their hiring of women or minorities was so far below the averages that there was only one chance in a hundred that the discrimination occurred randomly.
Sent 9: The study also found rising employment for women and minorities, suggesting significant progress in the workplace.
Sent 10: The names of the companies are confidential and were not known to the researchers.
Sent 11: The professors expect to make their study available through a Web site, www.eeo1.com.
Sent 12: The Blumrosens, who were instrumental in setting up the E.E.O.C. in 1965, also say the government should make more active use of their data.
Sent 13: The commission said it did not comment on draft reports.
Question: How many companies were found to be discriminatory and for what reason(s)? (A) 20,000, because of significant progress in the workplace (B) 200,000, because the discrimination occurred randomly (C) About 22,000 companies, according to standards they hired far less miniorities in a 10 year period, (D) 10,000, due to descrimination against men.
| Output: C.
| 2 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
One example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Solution is here: D.
Explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Now, solve this: Paragraph- Sent 1: Nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments in March filed lawsuits Wednesday against the apartment complex.
Sent 2: They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze.
Sent 3: Bernard Dempsey Jr., an attorney with Western Michigan Legal Services, the group that represents the tenants, said Alamo Hills gave the displaced families very limited opportunity to remove belongings.
Sent 4: "They were given three days to get their stuff out, and if they couldn't get moved out in three days, their stuff was discarded," Dempsey said.
Sent 5: "Alamo Hills just threw it out."Sent 6: Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless.
Sent 7: According to the lawsuit, the tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security.
Sent 8: A spokesperson for PM One, the company that manages Alamo Hills, could not be reached for comment.
Sent 9: Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than $25,000.
Sent 10: "We're asking for the reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount for stress -- $3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses for their lost stuff," Dempsey said.
Sent 11: "They're not looking to get rich off this.
Sent 12: A lot of this is simply because they were treated so badly."Sent 13: Dempsey said most of the tenants who filed suits still live at the apartment complex, although many are trying to find homes elsewhere.
Sent 14: "The new apartments (they were provided) were not in very good shape.
Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims," he said.
Question: The new apartments provided for the tenants turned out to not be in very good shape. Was this fact part of the legal claims of the tenants? (A) No (B) Yes (C) Yes, Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims.
Solution: | B, C. | 6 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
One example is below.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
A: D.
Rationale: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Paris, France (CNN) -- Hundreds of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar factory, were holding executives of the company hostage Tuesday, a spokesman for the workers said.
Sent 2: Caterpillar's French staff say they are angry about a lack of negotiations over layoffs.
Sent 3: It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened with cutbacks have blockaded managers in their offices to demand negotiations.
Sent 4: Executives were released unharmed in both previous situations.
Sent 5: The latest incident started Tuesday morning at the office of the construction equipment company in the southeastern city of Grenoble.
Sent 6: The workers were angry that Caterpillar had proposed cutting more than 700 jobs and would not negotiate, said Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union.
Sent 7: They did not want to harm the Caterpillar executives, Benoit told CNN.
Sent 8: One hostage was released Tuesday evening leaving workers with four captives inside the Caterpillar building.
Sent 9: The released man was a human resources director identified only as Mr. Petit, because he has heart problems, union representative Bernard Patrick told CNN.
Sent 10: Petit had a heart attack a few weeks ago, Patrick said.
Sent 11: The four others still being held are Nicolas Polutnik, the head of operations; two other executives; and Petit's personal assistant, he said.
Sent 12: About 500 employees were also outside the building protesting.
Question: When was Mr. Petit released? (A) Tuesday morning (B) Tuesday evening (C) Today (D) Wednesday evening.
A: | B. | 9 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: When he was at Oxford he had been well known for concealing under a slightly rowdy exterior the highest spirits of any of the undergraduates.
Sent 2: He was looked upon as the most fascinating of _farceurs_.
Sent 3: It seems that he had distinguished himself there less for writing Greek verse, though he was good at it, than for the wonderful variety of fireworks that he persistently used to let off under the dean's window.
Sent 4: It was this fancy of his that led, first, to his popularity, and afterwards to the unfortunate episode of his being sent down; soon after which he had married privately, chiefly in order to send his parents an announcement of his wedding in _The Morning Post_, as a surprise.
Sent 5: Some people had come in after dinner--for there was going to be a little _sauterie intime_, as Mrs Mitchell called it, speaking in an accent of her own, so appalling that, as Vincy observed, it made it sound quite improper.
Sent 6: Edith watched, intensely amused, as she saw that there were really one or two people present who, never having seen Mitchell before, naturally did not recognise him now, so that the disguise was considered a triumph.
Sent 7: There was something truly agreeable in the deference he was showing to a peculiarly yellow lady in red, adorned with ugly real lace, and beautiful false hair.
Sent 8: She was obviously delighted with the Russian prince.
Question: From which institution was the individual in Sentence 4 "sent down"? (A) Mitchell (B) Oxford University (C) Vincy (D) Oxford.
Example Output: B, D.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Tim had always a red bike.
Sent 2: His birthday party was coming up and he hoped that his parents would finally get him the bike.
Sent 3: When his friends came over for the party, Tim was very worried that he wouldn't get the bike.
Sent 4: He looked at all the presents and none of them seemed big enough to have a bike in them.
Sent 5: Tim was sad.
Sent 6: When it was time to open the presents he opened them one at a time.
Sent 7: The first present was not a bike.
Sent 8: The second present was not a bike.
Sent 9: The third present was the biggest one.
Sent 10: Tim knew if the bike was going to be in any of the presents it was going to be in this box.
Sent 11: Tim opened it and there was no bike inside.
Sent 12: Just as Tim tried not to look too upset, his Dad brought in the biggest present of them all.
Sent 13: His Dad had been hiding the present all along.
Sent 14: Tim opened it and his new bike was inside the box.
Sent 15: Tim put the bike together with his Dad's help.
Question: What was Tims party for and who gave him the biggest present? (A) Santa (B) It is Tims birthday and his dad had the biggest present (C) His party was for graduation his grandma gave him biggest present (D) Dad (E) Christmas (F) Birthday (G) His party was for his birthday his dad gave him the biggest present.
Example Output: B, D, F, G.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Paris, France (CNN) -- Hundreds of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar factory, were holding executives of the company hostage Tuesday, a spokesman for the workers said.
Sent 2: Caterpillar's French staff say they are angry about a lack of negotiations over layoffs.
Sent 3: It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened with cutbacks have blockaded managers in their offices to demand negotiations.
Sent 4: Executives were released unharmed in both previous situations.
Sent 5: The latest incident started Tuesday morning at the office of the construction equipment company in the southeastern city of Grenoble.
Sent 6: The workers were angry that Caterpillar had proposed cutting more than 700 jobs and would not negotiate, said Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union.
Sent 7: They did not want to harm the Caterpillar executives, Benoit told CNN.
Sent 8: One hostage was released Tuesday evening leaving workers with four captives inside the Caterpillar building.
Sent 9: The released man was a human resources director identified only as Mr. Petit, because he has heart problems, union representative Bernard Patrick told CNN.
Sent 10: Petit had a heart attack a few weeks ago, Patrick said.
Sent 11: The four others still being held are Nicolas Polutnik, the head of operations; two other executives; and Petit's personal assistant, he said.
Sent 12: About 500 employees were also outside the building protesting.
Question: When was Mr. Petit released? (A) Tuesday morning (B) Tuesday evening (C) Today (D) Wednesday evening.
Example Output: | B.
| 3 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Let me give you an example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
The answer to this example can be: D.
Here is why: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
OK. solve this:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Hurlburt Field, Florida (CNN) -- An Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed Wednesday during a routine training mission north of Navarre, Florida, injuring five crew members aboard, a military official said.
Sent 2: The crash occurred about 6:45 p.m.
Sent 3: at Hurlburt Field's Eglin Range, said Amy Nicholson, chief of public affairs at the airfield.
Sent 4: The five injured crew members were taken to an area hospital, Nicholson said.
Sent 5: The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.
Sent 6: The cause of the accident is under investigation, she said.
Sent 7: The Osprey was assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing, the Air Force said.
Sent 8: The tilt-rotor aircraft can fly like an airplane and land like a helicopter.
Sent 9: The Army began developing the Osprey in 1982, though the program was nearly scrapped in 1989 when then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney sought to cancel it because of ballooning costs.
Sent 10: Questions were raised about the safety of the Osprey after two crashes, including one in 1992 at a Marine Corps air base in Virginia that killed the crew.
Sent 11: In late 2000, the Marine Corps grounded the Osprey fleet after two crashes -- one in Arizona that killed four crew members and 15 passengers, and another in North Carolina that killed the crew.
Sent 12: A redesign was ordered on the Osprey, and it resumed flights in 2002.
Sent 13: The Air Force began using Ospreys in 2008 after testing the aircraft in 2006.
Sent 14: They were first deployed by the Marines in Iraq in 2007 after 18 years and $20 billion in development.
Question: The crash that left five injured occurred at what time? (A) 7:00 AM (B) 8:45 p.m (C) CV-22 (D) 6:45 p.m.
Answer: | D. | 8 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.
Question: Are mutations always harmful? (A) No (B) No, they can also benefit a living being (C) Yes.
Output: A, B.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.
Question: What is the date of Pushkin's birthday? (A) July 5 1899 (B) June 6, (C) June 6 1799.
Output: B, C.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Elaan is a declaration of war against the reign of terror unleashed by the ganglords .
Sent 2: The story revolves around an upright and principled Police Officer , A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary whose eldest son Vikas is killed in a pre-planned accident .
Sent 3: But the A.C.P. is unable to nab the culprits for want of valid evidence .
Sent 4: Consequently , the A.C.P. , his wife Revati and younger son Vishal are griefstricken over the loss of young Vikas .
Sent 5: While the atmosphere in the city is already vitiated by the atrocities of ganglords Baba Khan and Manna Shetty who enjoy the support of some unscrupulous police personnel , the A.C.P. vows to make the ruthless gangsters bite the dust , without taking the law in his own hands .
Sent 6: On the other hand , Vishal an angry young man , can not stand this injustice since the police had failed to arrest his brother's killers , and he silently resents his A.C.P father's inaction in dealing with the culprits .
Sent 7: The ideologies of the father and son clash - Which lead to a conflict between a dutiful father and a reckless son .
Sent 8: The only one who understands the agony of Vishal is Mohini , the daughter of head constable Devkinandan Sharma .
Sent 9: The day comes when Vishal confronts Baba Khan and Manna Shetty Which leads to tension and gory situation for the A.C.P. , as the ganglords threaten to eliminate the A.C.P. as well as his wife Revati and son Vishal .
Question: Who is unable to nab the culprits in search of evidence? (A) Revati (B) The A.C.P (C) Vishal (D) Ramakant (E) A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary.
| Output: B, E.
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Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Example: Paragraph- Sent 1: Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sent 2: He is the only President to have been born in Hawaii.
Sent 3: He was born to a white mother and a black father.
Sent 4: His mother, Ann Dunham (1942-1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry. Question: How old was Obama's mother when he was born? (A) teenager (B) in his 40s (C) mid 20s (D) almost twenty.
Output: D.
Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
New input case for you: Paragraph- Sent 1: Durer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.
Sent 2: His success in spreading his reputation across Europe through prints was undoubtedly an inspiration for major artists such as Raphael, Titian, and Parmigianino, all of whom collaborated with printmakers in order to promote and distribute their work.
Sent 3: His work in engraving seems to have had an intimidating effect upon his German successors, the "Little Masters" who attempted few large engravings but continued Durer's themes in small, rather cramped compositions.
Sent 4: Lucas van Leyden was the only Northern European engraver to successfully continue to produce large engravings in the first third of the 16th century.
Sent 5: The generation of Italian engravers who trained in the shadow of Durer all either directly copied parts of his landscape backgrounds (Giulio Campagnola and Christofano Robetta), or whole prints (Marcantonio Raimondi and Agostino Veneziano).
Sent 6: However, Durer's influence became less dominant after 1515, when Marcantonio perfected his new engraving style, which in turn travelled over the Alps to dominate Northern engraving also.
Sent 7: In painting, Durer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.
Sent 8: His intense and self-dramatizing self-portraits have continued to have a strong influence up to the present, especially on painters in the 19th and 20th century who desired a more dramatic portrait style.
Sent 9: Durer has never fallen from critical favour, and there have been significant revivals of interest in his works in Germany in the Durer Renaissance of about 1570 to 1630, in the early nineteenth century, and in German nationalism from 1870 to 1945.
Sent 10: Durer's study of human proportions and the use of transformations to a coordinate grid to demonstrate facial variation inspired similar work by D'Arcy Thompson in his book On Growth and Form.
Sent 11: The Lutheran Church remembers Durer as a great Christian annually on April 6, along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Burgkmair.
Sent 12: The liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) remembers him, Cranach and Matthias Grunewald on August 5.
Question: Who was not intimidated by Durer in producing large engravings? (A) Parmigianino (B) D'Arcy Thompson (C) Raphael (D) Leyden (E) Marcantonio.
Output: | D. | 1 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: I had drunk too much, I confess, though we all had.
Sent 2: Somehow, Tasha and I began to argue the worth of Solevgrad jazz, as inconsequential a topic as I can imagine.
Sent 3: She had studied it in school, so she thought herself as an expert.
Sent 4: I once had a neighbor who played it constantly, loudly, and badly, so I thought I knew it better.
Sent 5: Malaquez tried to mediate, but I saw him as siding with Tasha.
Sent 6: So, I think, did she.
Sent 7: The subject shifted from music to Tasha's obsession with fame, undoubtedly by a leap that I made.
Sent 8: She had no choice but to follow.
Sent 9: (I do not remember any of this well, just now, nor do I care to.
Sent 10: Those who are truly curious may look at the last act of "Captured Moments.") I remember suggesting, with characteristic tact, that she add Emil to her small list of major accomplishments.
Sent 11: Malaquez glanced away, embarrassed.
Sent 12: Tasha looked at me as if to say, "I will."Sent 13: She said, "I feel sorry for you, Nardo.
Sent 14: I'll see Emil home."Sent 15: "Yes," I said, "Do that," and did not care what she did, or why.
Sent 16: Emil asked, "You're all right?"Sent 17: I muttered something he must have interpreted as assent.
Sent 18: They both walked up to Emil's home while I watched the scarlet moonlight ripple on distant waves.
Sent 19: Disgusted with Tasha but more disgusted with myself, I finally realized she would not return that night and went into The Sleeping Flamingo to drink myself to sleep.
Sent 20: She had not come home when I woke in mid-morning.
Question: What does Nardo assent to Tasha doing? (A) Stop obsessing with fame (B) Add Emil to her list of major accomplishments (C) Go to The Sleeping Flamingo with him (D) Seeing Emil home (E) Go home to Emil.
A: B, D.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as "poet" or "writer" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.
Question: Sergei Bezrukov portrayed Pushkin onscreen in what film? (A) The last poet (B) Pushkin: The Last Duel.
A: B.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Durer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.
Sent 2: His success in spreading his reputation across Europe through prints was undoubtedly an inspiration for major artists such as Raphael, Titian, and Parmigianino, all of whom collaborated with printmakers in order to promote and distribute their work.
Sent 3: His work in engraving seems to have had an intimidating effect upon his German successors, the "Little Masters" who attempted few large engravings but continued Durer's themes in small, rather cramped compositions.
Sent 4: Lucas van Leyden was the only Northern European engraver to successfully continue to produce large engravings in the first third of the 16th century.
Sent 5: The generation of Italian engravers who trained in the shadow of Durer all either directly copied parts of his landscape backgrounds (Giulio Campagnola and Christofano Robetta), or whole prints (Marcantonio Raimondi and Agostino Veneziano).
Sent 6: However, Durer's influence became less dominant after 1515, when Marcantonio perfected his new engraving style, which in turn travelled over the Alps to dominate Northern engraving also.
Sent 7: In painting, Durer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.
Sent 8: His intense and self-dramatizing self-portraits have continued to have a strong influence up to the present, especially on painters in the 19th and 20th century who desired a more dramatic portrait style.
Sent 9: Durer has never fallen from critical favour, and there have been significant revivals of interest in his works in Germany in the Durer Renaissance of about 1570 to 1630, in the early nineteenth century, and in German nationalism from 1870 to 1945.
Sent 10: Durer's study of human proportions and the use of transformations to a coordinate grid to demonstrate facial variation inspired similar work by D'Arcy Thompson in his book On Growth and Form.
Sent 11: The Lutheran Church remembers Durer as a great Christian annually on April 6, along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Burgkmair.
Sent 12: The liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) remembers him, Cranach and Matthias Grunewald on August 5.
Question: Who was not intimidated by Durer in producing large engravings? (A) Parmigianino (B) D'Arcy Thompson (C) Raphael (D) Leyden (E) Marcantonio.
A: | D.
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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: The center of an atom is held together by powerful forces.
Sent 2: This gives them a huge amount of stored energy.
Sent 3: This type of energy is called nuclear energy.
Sent 4: This energy can be released and used to do work.
Sent 5: This happens in nuclear power plants where they split apart the nucleus of an atom.
Sent 6: This splitting apart is called nuclear fission.
Sent 7: Another type of nuclear energy happens in the Sun.
Sent 8: Here the atoms nuclei are not split apart.
Sent 9: Instead, the nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together.
Sent 10: This process is called nuclear fusion.
Sent 11: Some of the suns energy travels to Earth.
Sent 12: This energy from nuclear fusion warms the planet and provides the energy for photosynthesis.
Question: How do nuclear fission and nuclear fusion differ? (A) Fission joins atoms nuclei (B) The nucleus splits in nuclear fission, but does not in nuclear fusion (C) Fusion comes from the moon and fission from the sun (D) Fission splits atoms nuclei (E) Fission fuses the nucleus and fusion splits the nucleus (F) Fusion joins atoms nuclei (G) Nuclear fission splits the nucleus and fusion fuses the nucleus (H) Fission causes photosynthesis and fusion doesn't (I) In nuclear fission, the nucleus of the atom is split apart. In nuclear fusion, atoms are fused, or joined together (J) Fusion splits atoms nuclei.
Answer: B, D, F, G, I.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Women and minorities appear to be benefiting from greater employment opportunities in the United States, but discrimination remains a significant problem, according to a study to be released today by two professors at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark.
Sent 2: The study, which extrapolated from federal data on about 200,000 large and midsize employers, concludes that about two million workers were affected by intentional discrimination in 1999.
Sent 3: Roughly a third of the employers studied appeared to have discriminated against women or minorities in at least one job category, the authors said The study was based on information collected from employers by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1990 through 1999 on so-called EEO-1 forms.
Sent 4: The husband-and-wife team of Alfred W. and Ruth G. Blumrosen then looked at how many women or minority workers a company employed in different job categories compared with how many were employed at other companies in the same industry in the same geographic area.
Sent 5: They described a company as an intentional discriminator if its employment of women or minorities was at least two standard deviations from the average.
Sent 6: Legally, companies are presumed to discriminate if their employment numbers are far below the norm.
Sent 7: About 22,000 employers were identified as "hard core" discriminators.
Sent 8: These companies employed below-average numbers of women and minorities for 10 years and their hiring of women or minorities was so far below the averages that there was only one chance in a hundred that the discrimination occurred randomly.
Sent 9: The study also found rising employment for women and minorities, suggesting significant progress in the workplace.
Sent 10: The names of the companies are confidential and were not known to the researchers.
Sent 11: The professors expect to make their study available through a Web site, www.eeo1.com.
Sent 12: The Blumrosens, who were instrumental in setting up the E.E.O.C. in 1965, also say the government should make more active use of their data.
Sent 13: The commission said it did not comment on draft reports.
Question: What kind of discrimination was found and was suggestion made to the government? (A) The government had to enforce the descriminatory laws. (B) There are greater opportunity for minorities, with standard deviation (C) Suggestion was made to make an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (D) Hardcore discrimination found. The government should make more active use of the data (E) Some unintentional discrimination in same geographic area (F) Discrimination against women and minorities (G) Mental health descrimination.
Answer: C, D, F.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Befitting a lush, tropical island stranded in the middle of the ocean, Madeira's origins are shrouded in mystery and fanciful legend.
Sent 2: Some claim that the archipelago is what remains of Plato's lost Atlantis, or part of a landmass that once fused the continents of Europe and America.
Sent 3: The Portuguese Step Ashore: Recorded history of the volcanic archipelago begins in relatively recent times: 1418, just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting.
Sent 4: Under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, caravels set out from the westernmost point of the Algarve, in southern Portugal, in search of foreign lands, fame, and wealth.
Sent 5: João Gonçalves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe.
Sent 6: Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon.
Sent 7: Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source.
Sent 8: After all, the waters of the Canary Islands, only 445 km (275 miles) to the south, had occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century, and Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo.
Sent 9: More likely, Zarco was heading for Guinea and storms forced him onto the beach of Porto Santo.
Sent 10: If so, then he was extremely fortunate, for he managed to land on the only large, sandy beach for hundreds of miles around.
Sent 11: Little wonder he subsequently named it Porto Santo (Holy Port).
Sent 12: The following year Zarco returned to claim the larger island he had seen from Porto Santo, and with him went Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
Sent 13: They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, "Island of Timber.
Sent 14: " The Portuguese Crown, delighted with its first important discovery, immediately embarked on a program of colonization.
Sent 15: Zarco and Teixeira were appointed co-governors of Madeira, while Perestrelo was awarded Porto Santo.
Question: What is the name of one of the islands that is part of a landmass that some think once fused the continents of Europe and America? (A) Atlantis (B) The Archipelago (C) Madeira (D) Plato's Lost Atlantis (E) Island of Timber (F) Canary Island.
Answer: | C, D.
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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: There once was a guy named Kevin and girl named Erin.
Sent 2: They really liked spending time together.
Sent 3: One day, Kevin traveled from his home in the United States of America to Erin's house in England.
Sent 4: They then thought to take a sudden trip around the world.
Sent 5: They first traveled by plane around Europe, where they saw many different people and sights.
Sent 6: They then took a boat to Africa and Asia, where they went on a trip through the mountains.
Sent 7: Later in the month, they traveled to China by train and were allowed to see how different life was over there.
Sent 8: Next they took another plane to Australia, where they had a lot of fun seeing kangaroos and a different type of English speaking people.
Sent 9: After spending a week in Australia, Kevin and Erin took a really long plane ride to North America, where they drove across the land.
Sent 10: They saw everything from the mountains to forests.
Sent 11: They even got to visit the beach!
Sent 12: Because they had so much fun, Kevin returned home with Erin to England where they hung out and spent the next few days and months talking about all of the neat things they saw and did on their trip.
Question: Did they both have fun visiting places? (A) Both of them had fun (B) Not at all (C) Yes (D) No, only Erin did (E) Yes they enjoyed visiting mountains forests and even beaches.
Ex Output:
A, C, E.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- Sevilla have sacked coach Manolo Jimenez after their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games.
Sent 2: Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week.
Sent 3: Jimenez had also secured a Copa del Rey final against Atletico Madrid but it wasn't enough to save the 46-year-old's job.
Sent 4: The club's sporting director Ramon Rodriguez admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had "done what I had to."Sent 5: He told the club's official Web site: "It was an unavoidable situation and we had to find a solution, and the pain that it brings.
Sent 6: "Tuesday was the end of the story but the decision comes from the image and dynamics of the team.
Sent 7: Without doubt we are grateful to Manolo.
Sent 8: He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible.
Sent 9: However it is obvious that he could not get a response out of the team.
Sent 10: "Fortunately we believe that there is time.
Sent 11: The growth and the ambition of the club is shown in the change of the manager.
Sent 12: We are fighting for important things."Sent 13: Xerez's injury-time equaliser on Tuesday meant Sevilla's last league success was against Real Mallorca back in February.
Sent 14: Ironically, it is Mallorca who occupy the much-coveted fourth spot in the table that guarantees Champions League football next season.
Sent 15: Jimenez took charge in October 2007 when former coach Juande Ramos left to take over at English Premier League team Tottenham.
Question: What was Sevilla's last league success, and where does that team now rank in the Champions League football table? (A) It was against Xerez. They rank 5th now on the points table (B) Xerez's team- 3rd (C) Real Mallorca, which occupies the fourth spot in the table (D) It was against Real Mallorca. Real Mallorca ranks 4th now on the table (E) Real Mallorca-4th (F) Jimenez's team- 1st (G) Real Mallorca's Team- 6th.
Ex Output:
C, D, E.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665–1667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace — now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.
Question: How many times were ships destroyed during the multiple conflicts between England and the Dutch? (A) 8 (B) 4 (C) Three times in the 19th century (D) Two times between 17th and 18th centuries (E) There were no ships sank in the British-Dutch wars (F) 6 (G) 2 (H) The Dutch sank the British fleet in 17th century and the British sank Dutch navy in 18th century.
Ex Output:
| D, G, H.
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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, "It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there."Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as "Spooky"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.
Question: What option did Zinni deny blocking? (A) Using cruise missiles in an attack on Pakistan (B) Using the AC-130 in Kandahar (C) Deployment of the AC-gunships (D) Attacking Afghan civilians (E) Using the AC-130 in an attack on Bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan (F) Using AC-130s to attack al Qaeda.
Answer: C, E, F.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: It's just this hard when I try to answer the question: Why do older Oklahomans need lawyers?
Sent 2: The answers are important enough that they will be a discussion topic of this year's Senior Day at 9 a.m.
Sent 3: March 25 in the House Chamber at the Capitol.
Sent 4: The following is a preview of some of the answers for review: We can all agree that older Oklahomans need medical care.
Sent 5: But even the best care is worthless if an older patient can't drive to the doctor for ongoing treatment because his or her car has been wrongfully seized in a debt dispute.
Sent 6: Therefore, lawyers are part of the prescription for regular medical care for many of the 600,000 Oklahomans age 60 and older.
Sent 7: Another example: if a doctor treats an elderly patient for a lung ailment, the doctor's treatment will be undone and he will see the patient again and again, if the patient is sent home to an unheated apartment.
Sent 8: Lawyers know how to make landlords heat apartments so the medical treatment can stick.
Sent 9: (By the way, a May 16, 2001, article in The New York Times reports on a program at Boston Medical Center providing a walk-in legal clinic in the hospital to help fight their patients' legal and administrative battles.) We also can agree that older Oklahomans - like all citizens - have rights to control their health care until they become incapacitated or these rights are transferred to another by legal document or process.
Sent 10: "Old" is not a legal classification that results in automatic loss of these rights.
Sent 11: Moreover, having an old parent does not automatically confer on children the right to make the parents' health care choices.
Sent 12: It follows that an important role lawyers provide for aging Oklahomans is not only to create rights - transferring documents such as durable powers of attorney and guardianship orders, but also to monitor their use.
Sent 13: In family situations, for example, lawyers must ensure that powers of attorney and guardianships are used to serve only the person transferring or losing rights.
Sent 14: They are not to be used to help a family "manage" their mother or help a doctor or nursing home get permission for a pill or procedure they feel is in the best interest of a patient.
Sent 15: Good news: Oklahoma now has a Public Guardianship Program, albeit unfunded, that will supply lawyers to perform this rights-monitoring process Oklahoma grandparents should be able to enjoy their grandchildren, not raise them.
Sent 16: But owing to the social problems of divorce and drug use, grandparents are increasingly being called on to raise their grandchildren because of missing parents.
Sent 17: Adding to the physical, emotional and financial burden they take on, grandparents face legal problems.
Sent 18: All the decisions parents made without a second thought now require evidence of legal authority when made by grandparents.
Question: What can lawyers do for old people? (A) Lawyers can help patients avoid debt disputes and can make landlord heat the apartment if the patient need it for Medical purposes. They can also create rights transferring documents such as durable powers of attorney and guardianship orders and monitor its use (B) Create rights and make landlords heat apartments (C) They can get prescriptions for them (D) They can help get landlords to heat apartments when tenants are sick (E) It is the Lawyers duty to help Older Oklahomans.
Answer: A, B, D.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . '' Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: 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 .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .
Question: In what year was the meeting John and Brian quickly leave from? (A) The peak of Beatlemania (B) 1947 (C) 1964 (D) 1967.
Answer: | A, C.
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