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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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| 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.
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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.
| 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: 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.
| 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.
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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.
| 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.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Is this an insect or an animal?
Sent 2: A snail is an animal just like you and me.
Sent 3: Thats right, you too are an animal.
Sent 4: No, you don't look like a snail.
Sent 5: You do have some things in common.
Sent 6: Animals can be divided into many groups.
Sent 7: These groups are decided based on their characteristics.
Sent 8: All animals have some basic features in common.
Sent 9: That does not mean they are the same.
Sent 10: They also have many differences.
Sent 11: For example, snails are mollusks and not insects.
Sent 12: Mollusks have a unique set of features.
Sent 13: Notice the large foot that allows it to move.
Sent 14: Yes, it only has one foot.
Sent 15: Did you notice the long antennas on its head?
Sent 16: This is where the snail's eyes are.
Sent 17: They are on the end of the antenna.
Sent 18: They are not on its head like most animals.
Sent 19: The foot and eyes are unique features.
Sent 20: Scientists use these features to place animals into groups.
Question: What common feature do mollusks and snails have? (A) A hard shell (B) Slime producing glands (C) Two feet and the head (D) Tiny suction feet (E) The long antennas on its head where the yes are (F) The antennae and large foot (G) One large foot (H) The large foot that allows it to move.
Example Output: E, F, G, H.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebastião ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebastião's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a "legitimate target" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.
Question: What happened to Prince Henry? (A) HE had a baby (B) He was the only rightful claimant to the throne, but he died after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed (C) He was the greatest ruler (D) He died (E) He died at the throne (F) He ruled for a full term.
Example Output: B, D, E.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness.
Sent 2: Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediately interpret the plane's failure to respond as a sign that it had been hijacked.
Sent 3: At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight.
Sent 4: He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency.
Sent 5: Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft.
Sent 6: At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft.
Sent 7: The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking.
Sent 8: The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a "no radio" aircraft.
Sent 9: The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11.
Sent 10: He became even more concerned as its route changed, moving into another sector's airspace.
Sent 11: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path, and asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11.
Sent 12: At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes.
Sent 13: Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay.
Sent 14: We are returning to the airport.
Sent 15: The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words "we have some planes."Sent 16: The next transmission came seconds later: American 11: Nobody move.
Sent 17: Everything will be okay.
Sent 18: If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.
Question: What was said in the transmissions from the American 11? (A) "We are returning to the airport" (B) "We want $5 million dollars (C) "Nobody move.", "Everything will be okay.", and "If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane." (D) We are being hijacked (E) If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.
Example Output: | C, E.
| 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.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Marsha loves playing with her noodle friend.
Sent 2: She had it for a long time so it is now a dark brown color.
Sent 3: When her mom first made it, it was white.
Sent 4: The night she met her noodle friend was spaghetti night.
Sent 5: Marsha's favorite dinner was spaghetti, which happened to be every Tuesday night.
Sent 6: On one Tuesday, a piece of spaghetti fell on the kitchen floor.
Sent 7: To Marsha, it looked like a stick man so she kept him.
Sent 8: She named her new noodle friend Joey and took him everywhere she went.
Sent 9: Sometimes Joey gets a little dried out so Marsha's mom told her to soak him in water every few days.
Sent 10: There were a couple times that the family dog, Mika, has tried to take Joey from Marsha and eat him!
Sent 11: So from now on, Marsha takes extra special care to make sure Joey is safe and sound at all times.
Sent 12: During the day she keeps him in a plastic bag in her pocket.
Sent 13: At night, she puts him under her pillow.
Sent 14: She loves Joey and wants to always be friends with him.
Question: Who does she keep in a plastic bag in her pocket? (A) Joey, her noodle friend (B) Joey.
[A]: A, B.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: You might want to know how cold it is.
Sent 2: You may need to know how fast the wind is blowing.
Sent 3: Maybe it rained last night?
Sent 4: Do you know how much?
Sent 5: Does it feel humid to you?
Sent 6: You have heard all these questions before.
Sent 7: To answer these questions, we need data.
Sent 8: That data comes from special tools.
Sent 9: These tools collect data about the weather.
Sent 10: You can see some of the common tools listed below: A thermometer measures temperature.
Sent 11: An anemometer measures wind speed.
Sent 12: A rain gauge measures the amount of rain.
Sent 13: A hygrometer measures humidity.
Sent 14: A wind vane shows wind direction.
Sent 15: A snow gauge measures the amount of snow.
Question: What tools would you use to measure the amount of rain and wind speed? (A) A rain gauge and anemometer (B) Rain gauge (C) Wind vane (D) An anemometer and a rain gauge (E) Hygrometer and wind vane (F) Hygrometer (G) Anemometer (H) A rain gauge and wind vane.
[A]: A, B, D, G.
[Q]: 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: A federal jury court in Florida convicted 7 people of participating in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise when will they be sentenced? (A) They will not be sentenced (B) April 14 (C) November 05 (D) In the next year (E) On Dec 20th (F) On August 2006.
[A]: | B.
| 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.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: During this time, Alexander adopted some elements of Persian dress and customs at his court, notably the custom of proskynesis, either a symbolic kissing of the hand, or prostration on the ground, that Persians showed to their social superiors.
Sent 2: The Greeks regarded the gesture as the province of deities and believed that Alexander meant to deify himself by requiring it.
Sent 3: This cost him the sympathies of many of his countrymen, and he eventually abandoned it.
Sent 4: A plot against his life was revealed, and one of his officers, Philotas, was executed for failing to alert Alexander.
Sent 5: The death of the son necessitated the death of the father, and thus Parmenion, who had been charged with guarding the treasury at Ecbatana, was assassinated at Alexander's command, to prevent attempts at vengeance.
Sent 6: Most infamously, Alexander personally killed the man who had saved his life at Granicus, Cleitus the Black, during a violent drunken altercation at Maracanda (modern day Samarkand in Uzbekistan), in which Cleitus accused Alexander of several judgemental mistakes and most especially, of having forgotten the Macedonian ways in favour of a corrupt oriental lifestyle.
Sent 7: Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages.
Sent 8: His official historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, was implicated in the plot; however, historians have yet to reach a consensus regarding this involvement.
Sent 9: Callisthenes had fallen out of favor by leading the opposition to the attempt to introduce proskynesis.
Question: What specific gesture implemented by Alexander did the Greeks take issue with because they believed Alex meant to deify himself? (A) Prostration on the ground (B) Adopted elements of Persian dress and customs (C) Symbolic kissing of the hand (D) The custom of proskynesis, or a symbolic kissing of the hand.
Ex Output:
A, C, D.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Cavour was a younger son of a noble Piedmontese family, and entered the army in 1826, serving in the engineers.
Sent 2: His liberal sentiments made him distrusted by the government of Charles Felix as a dangerous man, and he was doomed to an inactive life in an unimportant post.
Sent 3: He soon quitted the army, and embarked in business operations as manager of one of the estates of his family.
Sent 4: For twelve years he confined himself to agricultural labors, making himself acquainted with all the details of business and with the science of agriculture, introducing such improvements as the use of guano, and promoting agricultural associations; but he was not indifferent at the same time to public affairs, being one of the most zealous advocates of constitutional liberty.
Sent 5: A residence in England gave him much valuable knowledge as to the working of representative institutions.
Sent 6: He established in 1847 a political newspaper, and went into parliament as a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Sent 7: In 1848 he used all his influence to induce the government to make war with Austria; and when Charles Albert abdicated, and Victor Emmanuel became king, Cavour's great talents were rewarded.
Sent 8: In 1850 he became minister of commerce; in 1852, prime minister.
Sent 9: After that, his history is the history of Italy itself.
Question: Cavour worked in agriculture after doing what for his family? (A) After embarking in business operations (B) He became the manager of one of his family's estates (C) Growing crops (D) Working "in business operations as manager of one of the estates of his family" (E) He became the head of his family (F) After serving in the engineers.
Ex Output:
B, D.
Ex Input:
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.
Ex 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.
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: In 1863, Alexander II re-convened the Diet of Finland and initiated several reforms increasing Finland's autonomy from Russia including establishment of its own currency, the markka.
Sent 2: Liberation of business led to increased foreign investment and industrial development.
Sent 3: Finland also got its first railways, separately established under Finnish administration.
Sent 4: Finally, the elevation of Finnish from a language of the common people to a national language equal to Swedish opened opportunities for a larger proportion of the society.
Sent 5: Alexander II is still regarded as "The Good Tsar" in Finland.
Sent 6: These reforms could be seen as results of a genuine belief that reforms were easier to test in an underpopulated, homogeneous country, than in the whole of Russia.
Sent 7: They may also be seen as a reward for the loyalty of its relatively western-oriented population during the Crimean War and during the Polish uprising.
Sent 8: Encouraging Finnish nationalism and language can also be seen as an attempt to dilute ties with Sweden.
Question: In what year did Alexander II liberate business in Finland? (A) 1863 (B) Decade after 1863 (C) A few years before 1863.
A: | A. | 3 | 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: Joey got a German Shepherd for his birthday present.
Sent 2: He had never had any pets before, but was always excited to see the other dogs and cats in his neighborhood.
Sent 3: Since his birthday was in June, he spent a lot of time playing outside with his new puppy, which he named Max.
Sent 4: Max and Joey would often run through fields in a game of chase.
Sent 5: They also liked to go through the small forest behind the house, making a game of hide and seek.
Sent 6: They never went near the lake because Joey was afraid of water.
Sent 7: One day, Max hid a little too well and Joey couldn't find him.
Sent 8: Joey spent the afternoon looking for his German Shepherd where they often played, like the field and forest.
Sent 9: Joey was a shy boy who often read by himself, and Max was his best friend.
Sent 10: After dinner, he went to look for Max one last time before he had to take a bath and go to bed.
Sent 11: He heard some barking on the next street, so he ran to see if it was his puppy.
Sent 12: Sure enough, he saw Max playing with a poodle.
Sent 13: The dogs were having so much fun.
Sent 14: Joey brought Max home, happy that he had his puppy back.
Sent 15: Max seemed to be happy to have his human by his side as well as a new doggy friend.
Sent 16: All summer long, Joey took Max to the poodle's house so they could play without having to worry about losing his present.
Question: When Max hid too well, where did Joey look for him? (A) Inside (B) Outside (C) In the field and the forest?.
Solution: | B, C. | 0 | 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: 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: What are the important positions Chaim Weizman held in Israeli/Zionist history? (A) The President of world Zionist organization (B) President of Israel (C) Second President of Israel (D) First President of Israel (E) Honorary President of Israel.
Student: | A, B, 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.
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: 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: Which type of prints earned Durer a reputation across Europe while he was still in his twenties and revolutionized the potential of that medium? (A) Woodcuts (B) Theorist (C) Woodcut prints (D) Portraits (E) Paintings.
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.
Paragraph- Sent 1: The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Durer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Durer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.
Sent 2: De' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Durer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation.
Sent 3: A series of extant drawings show Durer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.
Sent 4: This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.
Sent 5: Durer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hande (English: Praying Hands, c.
Sent 6: 1508 Albertina, Vienna), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece.
Sent 7: He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour (usually combined), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare (1502) and the Great Piece of Turf (1503, both also Albertina).
Question: What is the name of the only existing engraving signed with Durer's full name? (A) Young Hare (B) Adam and Eve.
B.
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.
D.
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: What are the important positions Chaim Weizman held in Israeli/Zionist history? (A) The President of world Zionist organization (B) President of Israel (C) Second President of Israel (D) First President of Israel (E) Honorary President of Israel.
| A, B, D.
| 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.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine died Sunday, her longtime friend Noel Beutel said Monday.
Sent 2: She was 96.
Sent 3: Fontaine died "very peacefully" in her sleep of natural causes, Beutel said.
Sent 4: She was in her Carmel, California, home.
Sent 5: She is survived by her older sister, actress Olivia de Havilland -- with whom she had not spoken for decades.
Sent 6: Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, where her British father was a patent lawyer and teacher.
Sent 7: She and her sister moved to Saratoga, California, with their mother in 1919 when her parents separated.
Sent 8: Fontaine was a teenager when she began her acting career as Joan Burfield in the 1935 film "No More Ladies."Sent 9: She later adopted the stage name Fontaine -- the name of her mother's second husband.
Sent 10: She wrote in her 1978 autobiography, "No Bed of Roses," that her mother, who was an actress, began encouraging the rivalry with her older sister at an early age.
Sent 11: The feud extended to their careers when both sisters were nominated for best actress Oscars in 1942.
Sent 12: Fontaine, who was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion," beat her sister Olivia de Havilland, who was nominated for "Hold Back the Dawn."Sent 13: De Havilland won the first of her two Oscars in 1947 when she was given the best actress award for "To Each His Own."Sent 14: De Havilland and Fontaine remain the only sisters who have best-actress Academy Awards.
Sent 15: The long-standing feud with de Havilland was at such a peak during one Oscar winners' reunion in 1979 that they had to be seated on opposite ends of the stage.
Sent 16: "I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received," a statement released by Olivia de Havilland to CNN said.
Question: What were the occupations of Joan Fontaine's mother and father? (A) Actress (B) Teacher (C) Patent lawyer (D) Female actor (E) Singer (F) Dance teacher.
Output: A, B, C, D.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and "think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending."Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, "Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place."Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.
Question: How, according to Sweeney, hijackers gained entry to the cockpit? (A) He didnt't know (B) They gain entry through gun point (C) There was a routine medical emergency in first class (D) Sweeney did not know how (E) Walked in (F) Sweeney did not know how they had gained entry to the cockpit.
Output: C, D, F.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Alexander fled Macedon with his mother, dropping her off with her brother, King Alexander I of Epirus in Dodona, capital of the Molossians.
Sent 2: He continued to Illyria, where he sought refuge with the Illyrian King and was treated as a guest, despite having defeated them in battle a few years before.
Sent 3: However, it appears Philip never intended to disown his politically and militarily trained son.
Sent 4: Accordingly, Alexander returned to Macedon after six months due to the efforts of a family friend, Demaratus, who mediated between the two parties.
Sent 5: In the following year, the Persian satrap (governor) of Caria, Pixodarus, offered his eldest daughter to Alexander's half-brother, Philip Arrhidaeus.
Sent 6: Olympias and several of Alexander's friends suggested this showed Philip intended to make Arrhidaeus his heir.
Sent 7: Alexander reacted by sending an actor, Thessalus of Corinth, to tell Pixodarus that he should not offer his daughter's hand to an illegitimate son, but instead to Alexander.
Sent 8: When Philip heard of this, he stopped the negotiations and scolded Alexander for wishing to marry the daughter of a Carian, explaining that he wanted a better bride for him.
Sent 9: Philip exiled four of Alexander's friends, Harpalus, Nearchus, Ptolemy and Erigyius, and had the Corinthians bring Thessalus to him in chains.
Question: Who did Philip exile? (A) Corinthians (B) Alexander's friends (C) Alexander (D) Harpalus (E) Ptolemy (F) Erigyius (G) Nearchus (H) Thessalus (I) Carian.
| Output: B, D, E, F, G.
| 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.
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: Animated history of the US.
Sent 2: Of course the cartoon is highly oversimplified, and most critics consider it one of the weakest parts of the film.
Sent 3: But it makes a valid claim which you ignore entirely: That the strategy to promote "gun rights" for white people and to outlaw gun possession by black people was a way to uphold racism without letting an openly terrorist organization like the KKK flourish.
Sent 4: Did the 19th century NRA in the southern states promote gun rights for black people?
Sent 5: I highly doubt it.
Sent 6: But if they didn't, one of their functions was to continue the racism of the KKK.
Sent 7: This is the key message of this part of the animation, which is again being ignored by its critics.
Sent 8: Buell shooting in Flint.
Sent 9: You write: "Fact: The little boy was the class thug, already suspended from school for stabbing another kid with a pencil, and had fought with Kayla the day before".
Sent 10: This characterization of a six-year-old as a pencil-stabbing thug is exactly the kind of hysteria that Moore's film warns against.
Sent 11: It is the typical right-wing reaction which looks for simple answers that do not contradict the Republican mindset.
Sent 12: The kid was a little bastard, and the parents were involved in drugs -- case closed.
Sent 13: But why do people deal with drugs?
Sent 14: Because it's so much fun to do so?
Sent 15: It is by now well documented that the CIA tolerated crack sales in US cities to fund the operation of South American "contras" It is equally well known that the so-called "war on drugs" begun under the Nixon administration is a failure which has cost hundreds of billions and made America the world leader in prison population (both in relative and absolute numbers).
Question: Under whose administration did the war on drugs begin and was the focus of the film. (A) Nixon (B) Johnson (C) The war on drugs began with the Nixon administration and it was an animated story of the US that covered gun rights and other matters (D) "war on drugs" begun under the Nixon administration (E) Carter (F) The film focused on JFK and his declaration of a "War on Drugs" during his administration.
| Solution: A, C, D. | 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.
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: She led the way into the cheerful schoolroom, where big girls and little girls were sitting about, amusing themselves in the quiet of a long Sunday afternoon.
Sent 2: Several of the younger children ran to her as she came in, and stood holding fast to the folds of her black habit, staring up at the strangers, while she explained the kind of instruction given, the system, and the order reigning in each department.
Sent 3: Finally, she persuaded a little girl, only six years old, to take her dusky face out of the long flowing veil of the nun, and show how quickly she could read a sentence that Sister Winifred wrote on the blackboard.
Sent 4: Then others were called on, and gave examples of their accomplishments in easy arithmetic and spelling.
Sent 5: The children must have been very much bored with themselves that stormy Sunday, for they entered into the examination with a quite unnatural zest.
Sent 6: Two of the elder girls recited, and some specimens of penmanship and composition were shown.
Sent 7: The delicate complexion of the little nun flushed to a pretty wild-rose pink as these pupils of hers won the Colonel's old fashioned compliments.
Question: She led the way into the cheerful schoolroom when who ran to her as she came in? (A) Big girls and little girls (B) Young children (C) Several of the younger children (D) Sister Winifred (E) A six year old girl.
A: | B, C, E. | 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.
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: (CNN) -- Air New Zealand's latest in-flight safety video, released Tuesday, is already another viral hit but is encountering some turbulence over its use of several bikini-clad Sports Illustrated models.
Sent 2: View the video here Previous versions of the video -- starring anything from Hobbits to Bear Grylls to New Zealand's all conquering All Blacks rugby team -- have revolutionized the on-board safety message airlines deliver to passengers.
Sent 3: The most recent effort though is being criticized by some as neither ground-breaking nor as creative, after the airline teamed up with Sports Illustrated magazine to produce what it's calling "The world's most beautiful safety video."Sent 4: The "Safety in Paradise" video, which rolls out on Air New Zealand flights at the end of February, is beautifully shot and certainly cheerful and fun.
Sent 5: It was filmed in the Cook Islands -- home to several stunning beaches -- and coincides with the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit franchise.
Sent 6: Earlier videos have been witty, clever and quirky but the paradise video combines a far less subtle use of eye-catching material -- using four of the planet's most beautiful, and scantily clad women, to deliver information to passengers.
Sent 7: The models include Ariel Meredith, Chrissy Teigen, Hannah Davis and Jessica Gomes.
Sent 8: Christie Brinkley makes a cameo.
Sent 9: "It seems that suddenly they are saying that my sexuality is all that matters about me," one critic, Massey University lecturer and feminist commentator Deborah Russell told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Sent 10: Social media reaction to the video was predictably mixed, though the majority of commenters on Facebook and Twitter appeared to support the video -- and the women in it.
Sent 11: Many praised Air New Zealand for using beautiful women to promote the Cook Islands and complimented the airline on its marketing prowess, given the mass of media attention now being given to the safety video.
Sent 12: From the negative corner, while some commented they were appalled Air New Zealand would be so sexist, others said the Sports Illustrated version just isn't all that clever -- a disappointing follow up to the airline's creative safety videos of the past.
Question: Which airline teamed up with Sports Illustrated magazine in order to produce a safety video? (A) Lufstansa (B) Asian Airlines (C) AeroFrance (D) Air New Zealand.
Solution: | D. | 6 | NIv2 | task058_multirc_question_answering | fs_opt |
Part 1. 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.
Part 2. 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.
Answer: D.
Explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Part 3. Exercise
Paragraph- Sent 1: Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs.
Sent 2: The process depends on a muscle called the diaphragm.
Sent 3: This is a large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs.
Sent 4: Inhaling, or breathing in, occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens.
Sent 5: This increases the size of the chest.
Sent 6: This too decreases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 7: This action allows air and gases to enter the lungs.
Sent 8: Exhaling, or breathing out, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes.
Sent 9: This decreases the size of the chest.
Sent 10: This increases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 11: This action allows for air to leave the lungs.
Sent 12: When you inhale, air enters the respiratory system through your nose and ends up in your lungs, where gas exchange with the blood takes place.
Sent 13: What happens to the air along the way?
Sent 14: In the nose, mucus and hairs trap any dust or other particles in the air.
Sent 15: The air is also warmed and moistened.
Sent 16: Next, air passes through a passageway that is connected to the windpipe.
Sent 17: The air then finds its way to the lungs.
Sent 18: In the chest, the windpipe splits so that air enters both the right and left lung.
Question: What happens to the air pressure inside the lungs when the diaphragm muscle tightens? (A) Increases (B) decreases (C) Going down (D) Does not change.
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.
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: What are the characteristics of the ocean floor? (A) Sand (B) It is not flat, it has many continents that are much older than ocean basins. Some of these continents are billions of years old (C) It has features and forces (D) It has basins an dcontinents (E) Coral (F) Ocean basins (G) Continents.
A: B, D, F, G.
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Q: 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: What did Hamilton do in support of black people? (A) He supported forced emigration (B) Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves (C) He attacked others for fighting for freedom of white people only and petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade.
A: B, C.
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Q: 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: A state of siege declaration lasts how many days? (A) 30 days (B) 15 days (C) One year.
A: | A.
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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.
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: A day at the beach.
Sent 2: When Sam woke in the morning, he was super excited!
Sent 3: Today was the day!
Sent 4: It was Sunday, the day that Sam's mom and dad had promised to take Sam to the beach.
Sent 5: Sam's grandma had given a pail and shovel to Sam to use in the sand.
Sent 6: At breakfast Sam was so excited he was wiggling in his seat!
Sent 7: Mom told Sam that they would leave when the big hand on the clock was pointing to the 10, and the little had was pointing to the 12.
Sent 8: Mom asked Sam if he would like to help make sandwiches for the trip, and Sam said that he wanted to help.
Sent 9: Dad said, "let's make a game of it, we need to make a sandwich for each of us.
Sent 10: There are three of us, so we need three sandwiches.
Sent 11: Let's count as we make the sandwiches!"Sent 12: Sam counted as mom made the sandwiches, one for dad, one for mom and one for Sam.
Sent 13: Then mom started to make another sandwich!
Sent 14: "Mom!"Sent 15: said Sam, "we have three sandwiches and that makes one sandwich for each of us."Sent 16: Sam's mom laughed, "You're right Sam!"Sent 17: Sam's mom said she was being silly.
Question: Where would Sam go when the big hand pointed to 10 and the little hand pointed to 12? (A) To the beach (B) To breakfast (C) To his grandma's (D) To school.
Answer: | A. | 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.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having!
Sent 2: All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger.
Sent 3: The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.
Sent 4: It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there.
Sent 5: In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor.
Sent 6: Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths.
Sent 7: Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence.
Sent 8: When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.
Question: What was the most glorious event at Dawson's Landing? (A) The grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's (B) The robber raid (C) The duel (D) The mayor election.
A: C.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Washington Supreme Court is asking the Legislature to approve a $90 surcharge on a court filing fee to help provide legal help for the poor in civil cases, Chief Justice Gerry Alexander said Wednesday.
Sent 2: "Some might say, why should we support this when we face tough financial times?"Sent 3: Alexander asked in his State of the Judiciary address to a joint session of the Legislature.
Sent 4: "It seems to me in America, where we rejoice in the fact that we are a nation devoted to the rule of law, we should not ration access to justice."Sent 5: The recommendation comes from the court's Task Force on Civil Equal Justice Funding, created in 2001 to look for ways to cope with the sparse amount of money available for such cases.
Sent 6: As the task force was studying the issue, $900,000 was cut from state support for civil equal justice services.
Sent 7: That prompted the state's two main legal services providers - Columbia Legal Services and Northwest Justice Project - to cut their staffs, Alexander said.
Sent 8: The change would increase the cost of filing a lawsuit in Superior Court to $200.
Sent 9: The total fee would be split, with 54 percent going to counties and 46 percent going to the state for a newly created equal justice account.
Sent 10: Alexander also requested money for five additional Superior Court judgeships and one additional District Court judgeships, arguing that increased caseloads require more judges.
Sent 11: Two of the Superior Court judges and the District Court judge would be in Clark County, with one Superior Court judge added in the joint district that serves Benton and Franklin counties and one each in Kittitas and Kitsap counties.
Question: What change would increase the cost of filing a lawsuit in Superior Court? (A) For Columbia Legal Services and Northwest Justice Project cutting their staff (B) For Civil Equal Justice Funding cutting theit staff (C) Staff cuts within the states two main legal service providers (D) Staff Cut (E) $200 increase for staff Salary (F) Reduction in State Support.
A: A, C, D, F.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, "All employees must don protective gear before coming in."Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. "I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place," says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.
Question: It could be another year and a half before the workers of which organization return to their old desks? (A) Crain's New York Business (B) Legal Aid Society (C) The Legal Aid Society (D) Manhattan-based real estate brokerage (E) Johnson and Johnson (F) Band Aid Society.
A: | 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.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and "think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending."Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, "Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place."Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.
Question: When did Sweeney report to Woodward, "Something is wrong" (A) After the phone stopped working (B) When the hijackers gained entry to the cockpit (C) 8:41 (D) When the air craft began to descend (E) 8:44 (F) After highjackers went in cockpit.
A: A, E.
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Q: 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: During a lunar eclipse, does the earth or moon get dark? (A) The moon gets dark (B) The earth gets dark (C) It doesnt get dark on Earth (D) The Moon.
A: A, D.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Marsha loves playing with her noodle friend.
Sent 2: She had it for a long time so it is now a dark brown color.
Sent 3: When her mom first made it, it was white.
Sent 4: The night she met her noodle friend was spaghetti night.
Sent 5: Marsha's favorite dinner was spaghetti, which happened to be every Tuesday night.
Sent 6: On one Tuesday, a piece of spaghetti fell on the kitchen floor.
Sent 7: To Marsha, it looked like a stick man so she kept him.
Sent 8: She named her new noodle friend Joey and took him everywhere she went.
Sent 9: Sometimes Joey gets a little dried out so Marsha's mom told her to soak him in water every few days.
Sent 10: There were a couple times that the family dog, Mika, has tried to take Joey from Marsha and eat him!
Sent 11: So from now on, Marsha takes extra special care to make sure Joey is safe and sound at all times.
Sent 12: During the day she keeps him in a plastic bag in her pocket.
Sent 13: At night, she puts him under her pillow.
Sent 14: She loves Joey and wants to always be friends with him.
Question: What day of the week did Marsha first meet her friend? (A) Thursday (B) Sunday (C) Saturday (D) Tuesday.
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.
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: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, "All employees must don protective gear before coming in."Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. "I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place," says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.
Question: It could be another year and a half before the workers of which organization return to their old desks? (A) Crain's New York Business (B) Legal Aid Society (C) The Legal Aid Society (D) Manhattan-based real estate brokerage (E) Johnson and Johnson (F) Band Aid Society.
Answer: | A, B, C. | 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.
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: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence.
Sent 2: I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the "charny" is a Martial equivalent.
Sent 3: No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.
Sent 4: But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Sent 5: But as with the luxury of intoxication in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other.
Sent 6: A lady discovered in the use of "charny" is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently conscious of her fault.
Question: What is the name of the drug used in Mars? (A) Charny (B) -charny- (C) Illusions (D) Europe (E) Opiates (F) "charny".
Solution: | A, B, F. | 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: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: "There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention," said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: "In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives."Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: "It never ends," said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: "Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives."Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has "more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded," said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.
Question: Who is Mark Horton? (A) A lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health (B) The Attorney General (C) Former director of the California Department of Public health (D) The California Secretary of Social Services (E) A Doctor at San Francisco Medical Center (F) Mark Horton is the first to pass major public health initiatives (G) Public affairs in Orange County.
Answer: | A, C. | 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.
[EX Q]: 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: Who were probably the ancestors of the Gododdin? (A) The Scots (B) The Picts (C) A tribe of ancient Britons known as the Votadini (D) The Britons (E) The Votadini.
[EX A]: C, D, E.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his vulgar and unfaithful wife Miriam , so he can marry the elegant and beautiful Anne Morton , daughter of a senator .
Sent 2: While on a train to meet Miriam , Haines meets Bruno Anthony , a forward stranger who recognizes Guy from gossip items in the newspapers that detail his marital problems .
Sent 3: During lunch in Bruno's compartment , Bruno tells Guy about his idea for the perfect `` Criss-cross '' murder : he will kill Miriam and in exchange , Guy will kill Bruno's father .
Sent 4: Since both are strangers , otherwise unconnected , there is no identifiable motive for the crimes , Bruno contends , hence no suspicion .
Sent 5: Guy hurriedly leaves the compartment but leaves Bruno thinking he has agreed to the deal .
Sent 6: Guy accidentally leaves his cigarette lighter behind , a gift from Anne to Guy , Which Bruno pockets .
Sent 7: Bruno heads to Guy's hometown of Metcalf and follows Miriam and her two beaux to an amusement park , where he briefly illuminates her face with Guy's lighter , then strangles her to death .
Sent 8: Guy's problems begin when his alibi an inebriated college professor on the same train as Guy can not remember their meeting .
Sent 9: But they increase exponentially when Bruno makes repeated appearances into Guy's life as he seeks to remind Guy that he is now obliged to kill Bruno's father , according to the bargain he thinks they struck on the train .
Sent 10: Bruno sends Guy the keys to his house , a map to his father's room , and a pistol .
Sent 11: Soon after , Bruno appears at a party at Senator Morton's house and hobnobs with the guests , much to Guy's apprehension and Anne's increasing suspicion .
Question: Why did Guy feel comfortable about telling Bruno about this murder plan? (A) He's a stragner (B) It was Bruno's plan (C) Bruno recognized Guy from the Papers (D) There was no connection between them (E) Old friends.
[EX A]: A, B, D.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Einstein and Maric married in January 1903.
Sent 2: In May 1904, the couple's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland.
Sent 3: Their second son, Eduard, was born in Zurich in July 1910.
Sent 4: In 1914, the couple separated; Einstein moved to Berlin and his wife remained in Zurich with their sons.
Sent 5: They divorced on 14 February 1919, having lived apart for five years.
Sent 6: Eduard, whom his father called "Tete" (for petit), had a breakdown at about age 20 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Sent 7: His mother cared for him and he was also committed to asylums for several periods, including full-time after her death.
Sent 8: The marriage with Maric does not seem to have been very happy.
Sent 9: In letters revealed in 2015, Einstein wrote to his early love, Marie Winteler, about his marriage and his still strong feelings for Marie.
Sent 10: In 1910 he wrote to her that "I think of you in heartfelt love every spare minute and am so unhappy as only a man can be" while his wife was pregnant with their second child.
Sent 11: Einstein spoke about a "misguided love" and a "missed life" regarding his love for Marie.
Sent 12: Einstein married Elsa Lowenthal on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912.
Sent 13: She was a first cousin maternally and a second cousin paternally.
Sent 14: In 1933, they emigrated to the United States.
Sent 15: In 1935, Elsa Einstein was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems; she died in December 1936.
Question: Einstein and Elsa were married for? (A) 16 years (B) 5 years (C) 17 years (D) 4 years (E) 10 years (F) 7 years.
[EX A]: | C.
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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: For most lawyers, full waiting rooms and appointments booked out to mid-July would equate to a lucrative law practice.
Sent 2: But Frank Smith drives a 6-year-old car with 140,000 miles on it, and paying his senior paralegal minimum wage the last few months has put him in the red.
Sent 3: Hoped-for federal grants haven"t come through, so he"s had to raise his rates.
Sent 4: As of last week he charges $50 an hour minimum instead of $25 for the services of his yearling Northern Utah Legal Aid Foundation.
Sent 5: That"s in a lawyer"s market where fees range in the $150 to $250 an hour range in the Ogden area, and up to $400 an hour in the Salt Lake area.
Sent 6: Smith"s one-lawyer foundation basically helps the folks who have too much money to qualify for the federally funded Utah Legal Services, but not enough money to afford a lawyer.
Question: What is the minimum that Frank Smith would charge for an hour of legal services, in dollars? (A) $50 (B) $400 (C) $150 (D) $25.
Solution: | A. | 4 | 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: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies .
Sent 2: Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort .
Sent 3: Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that .
Sent 4: Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet .
Sent 5: Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window .
Sent 6: As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge .
Sent 7: Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train .
Sent 8: Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch .
Sent 9: Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy .
Sent 10: Daffy finds this silly .
Sent 11: Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! ''Sent 12: - ing wildly .
Question: After all the antics, does Porky finally get to sleep the night through? (A) Blissfull sleep (B) Yes, he slept through the night after throwing Daffy out the window (C) Rested (D) Restless (E) No, because he ends up on a train (F) No, Porky tricked him causing him to walk out of the window (G) No sleep (H) No, because Daffy was snoring too loud (I) No. Daffy has one last trick up his sleeve that actually sends Porky on a train ride.
Solution: | D, E, F, G, I. | 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: Albert Bandura OC (/baen'dU@r@/; born December 4, 1925) is a psychologist who is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University.
Sent 2: For almost six decades, he has been responsible for contributions to the field of education and to many fields of psychology, including social cognitive theory, therapy and personality psychology, and was also influential in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology.
Sent 3: He is known as the originator of social learning theory and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and is also responsible for the influential 1961 Bobo doll experiment.
Sent 4: Social learning theory is how people learn through observing others.
Sent 5: An example of social learning theory would be the students imitating the teacher.
Sent 6: Self-efficacy is "The belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage prospective situations."Sent 7: To paraphrase, self-efficiacy is believing in yourself to take action.
Sent 8: The Bobo Doll Experiment was how Albert Bandura studied aggression and non-aggression in children.
Sent 9: A 2002 survey ranked Bandura as the fourth most-frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind B. F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget, and as the most cited living one.
Sent 10: Bandura is widely described as the greatest living psychologist, and as one of the most influential psychologists of all time.
Sent 11: In 1974 Bandura was elected to be the Eighty-Second President of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Sent 12: He was one of the youngest president-elects in the history of the APA at the age of 48.
Sent 13: Bandura served as a member of the APA Board of Scientific Affairs from 1968 to 1970 and is well known as a member of the editorial board of nine psychology journals including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from 1963 to 1972.
Sent 14: At the age of 82, Bandura was awarded the Grawemeyer Award for psychology.
Question: In which year did Albert Bandura study aggression in children? (A) 1964 (B) 1967 (C) 1961.
Solution: | 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.
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: We were cornered in a sort of way already.
Sent 2: But these butchers up the cavern had been surprised, they were probably scared, and they had no special weapons, only those little hatchets of theirs.
Sent 3: And that way lay escape.
Sent 4: Their sturdy little forms--ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds--were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision.
Sent 5: I had the moral advantage of a mad bull in a street.
Sent 6: But for all that, there seemed a tremendous crowd of them.
Sent 7: Very probably there was.
Sent 8: Those Selenites down the cleft had certainly some infernally long spears.
Sent 9: It might be they had other surprises for us.... But, confound it!
Sent 10: if we charged up the cave we should let them up behind us, and if we didn't those little brutes up the cave would probably get reinforced.
Sent 11: Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare--guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes--this unknown world below our feet, this vaster world of which we had only pricked the outer cuticle, might not presently send up to our destruction.
Sent 12: It became clear the only thing to do was to charge!
Sent 13: It became clearer as the legs of a number of fresh Selenites appeared running down the cavern towards us.
Question: What did those with little hatchets look like? (A) They had sturdy little forms (B) Bulls (C) Mooncalf herds.
Answer: | A. | 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: 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.
Solution: | B, C, E. | 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.
Input: Consider Input: 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.
Output: C, D, E, F.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan.
Sent 2: She kept these little books after all the others had gone back.
Sent 3: She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.
Sent 4: It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it.
Sent 5: She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins.
Sent 6: She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back.
Sent 7: Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office.
Sent 8: Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books.
Sent 9: Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself.
Question: Why did Johnnie not want to return the books? (A) She was afraid (B) She could not bear to give them back as she treasured them and felt they were a part of herself (C) They were a part of her.
Output: B, C.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Not until 1998 did al Qaeda undertake a major terrorist operation of its own, in large part because Bin Laden lost his base in Sudan.
Sent 2: Ever since the Islamist regime came to power in Khartoum, the United States and other Western governments had pressed it to stop providing a haven for terrorist organizations.
Sent 3: Other governments in the region, such as those of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and even Libya, which were targets of some of these groups, added their own pressure.
Sent 4: At the same time, the Sudanese regime began to change.
Sent 5: Though Turabi had been its inspirational leader, General Omar al Bashir, president since 1989, had never been entirely under his thumb.
Sent 6: Thus as outside pressures mounted, Bashir's supporters began to displace those of Turabi.
Sent 7: The attempted assassination in Ethiopia of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 appears to have been a tipping point.
Sent 8: The would-be killers, who came from the Egyptian Islamic Group, had been sheltered in Sudan and helped by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: When the Sudanese refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot, the UN Security Council passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanctioned Khartoum in April 1996.
Sent 10: A clear signal to Bin Laden that his days in Sudan were numbered came when the government advised him that it intended to yield to Libya's demands to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies.
Sent 11: Bin Laden had to tell the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave the country.
Sent 12: Outraged, several Libyan members of al Qaeda and the Islamic Army Shura renounced all connections with him.
Sent 13: Bin Laden also began to have serious money problems.
Sent 14: International pressure on Sudan, together with strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan's currency.
Sent 15: Some of Bin Laden's companies ran short of funds.
Sent 16: As Sudanese authorities became less obliging, normal costs of doing business increased.
Sent 17: Saudi pressures on the Bin Laden family also probably took some toll.
Sent 18: In any case, Bin Laden found it necessary both to cut back his spending and to control his outlays more closely.
Question: Who outraged Libyans of al Qaeda? (A) Sudanese government (B) General Omar al Bashir had outrage the Libyans of al Qaeda (C) Libyans (D) The UN Security Council passing a resolution and criticizing their inaction (E) Bin Landen (F) Bin Laden had outrage the Libyans of al Qaeda (G) Bin Laden (H) Bin Laden cutting his support.
| Output: A, F, 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.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Alexander married twice: Roxana, daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes, out of love; and Stateira II, a Persian princess and daughter of Darius III of Persia, for political reasons.
Sent 2: He apparently had two sons, Alexander IV of Macedon of Roxana and, possibly, Heracles of Macedon from his mistress Barsine.
Sent 3: He lost another child when Roxana miscarried at Babylon.
Sent 4: Alexander also had a close relationship with his friend, general, and bodyguard Hephaestion, the son of a Macedonian noble.
Sent 5: Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander.
Sent 6: This event may have contributed to Alexander's failing health and detached mental state during his final months.
Sent 7: Alexander's sexuality has been the subject of speculation and controversy.
Sent 8: No ancient sources stated that Alexander had homosexual relationships, or that Alexander's relationship with Hephaestion was sexual.
Sent 9: Aelian, however, writes of Alexander's visit to Troy where "Alexander garlanded the tomb of Achilles and Hephaestion that of Patroclus, the latter riddling that he was a beloved of Alexander, in just the same way as Patroclus was of Achilles".
Sent 10: Noting that the word eromenos (ancient Greek for beloved) does not necessarily bear sexual meaning, Alexander may have been bisexual, which in his time was not controversial.
Sent 11: Green argues that there is little evidence in ancient sources that Alexander had much carnal interest in women; he did not produce an heir until the very end of his life.
Sent 12: However, he was relatively young when he died, and Ogden suggests that Alexander's matrimonial record is more impressive than his father's at the same age.
Sent 13: Apart from wives, Alexander had many more female companions.
Sent 14: Alexander accumulated a harem in the style of Persian kings, but he used it rather sparingly; showing great self-control in "pleasures of the body".
Sent 15: Nevertheless, Plutarch described how Alexander was infatuated by Roxana while complimenting him on not forcing himself on her.
Sent 16: Green suggested that, in the context of the period, Alexander formed quite strong friendships with women, including Ada of Caria, who adopted him, and even Darius's mother Sisygambis, who supposedly died from grief upon hearing of Alexander's death.
Question: Did one of Alexander's wives suffer a miscarriage? (A) Yes (B) Roxana miscarried at Babylon (C) Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander.
[EX A]: A, B.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Albanian was proved to be an Indo-European language in 1854 by the German philologist Franz Bopp.
Sent 2: The Albanian language comprises its own branch of the Indo-European language family.
Sent 3: Some scholars believe that Albanian derives from Illyrian while others claim that it derives from Daco-Thracian.
Sent 4: (Illyrian and Daco-Thracian, however, might have been closely related languages; see Thraco-Illyrian.) Establishing longer relations, Albanian is often compared to Balto-Slavic on the one hand and Germanic on the other, both of which share a number of isoglosses with Albanian.
Sent 5: Moreover, Albanian has undergone a vowel shift in which stressed, long o has fallen to a, much like in the former and opposite the latter.
Sent 6: Likewise, Albanian has taken the old relative jos and innovatively used it exclusively to qualify adjectives, much in the way Balto-Slavic has used this word to provide the definite ending of adjectives.
Sent 7: The cultural renaissance was first of all expressed through the development of the Albanian language in the area of church texts and publications, mainly of the Catholic region in the North, but also of the Orthodox in the South.
Sent 8: The Protestant reforms invigorated hopes for the development of the local language and literary tradition when cleric Gjon Buzuku brought into the Albanian language the Catholic liturgy, trying to do for the Albanian language what Luther did for German.
Question: What are some reasons for uses of the Albanian language? (A) Old relative jos (B) Church publications (C) Church text (D) Catholic liturgy (E) Catholic (F) Protestant (G) Orthodox (H) Isoglosses (I) Vowel shifts.
[EX A]: B, C, D.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Moscow (CNN) -- Divers have completed their search of a Russian cruise ship that sank last weekend with the loss of many lives, the Emergency Situations Ministry told CNN Friday.
Sent 2: The official death toll has reached 114 -- including 66 women, 28 children and 20 men, the ministry said.
Sent 3: The bodies of 15 people are still missing.
Sent 4: There were 208 people on the "Bulgaria" at the time of the accident Sunday, of whom 79 were rescued.
Sent 5: Divers have checked all the boat's compartments, the ministry said, and are now looking for more bodies around the boat as well downstream on the Volga River, where they could have been carried by the current.
Sent 6: The area where search efforts continue has been enlarged to 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the scene, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said at a briefing Friday.
Sent 7: Preparations are under way for the cruise ship to be raised from the river bottom in the coming days.
Sent 8: Two large boat cranes, one from Moscow and another one from Volgograd, which will be used for the lifting, are on the way to the accident site.
Sent 9: "We have asked the Emergency Situations Ministry to keep 23 divers at the scene to continue the search for bodies even during the lifting operation," Levitin said.
Sent 10: Specialist military divers were brought in mid-week to aid in the search efforts.
Sent 11: Four people face criminal charges over the sinking of the ship, which Russian media have called the most devastating river accident in the country's history.
Question: How many people can be accounted for after the search of the ship? (A) 193 (B) 66 (C) 79 can be accounted for (D) 20 (E) 114 dead and 79 survivors can be accounted for (F) 28.
[EX A]: | A, E.
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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.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: How would the universe look without gravity?
Sent 2: It would have no planets and no stars.
Sent 3: Thats how it looked when it was young.
Sent 4: When the universe was young, there was only gas and dust.
Sent 5: From this gas and dust, everything we now see was made.
Sent 6: How were stars and planets created from just gas and dust?
Sent 7: The answer is gravity.
Sent 8: The same gravity that holds you down on Earth.
Sent 9: The same force that causes your pencil to roll off your desk.
Sent 10: The same force that causes it to fall to the floor.
Sent 11: The invisible force of gravity caused dust and gas particles to be pulled together.
Sent 12: This force is what formed all the objects in our solar system.
Sent 13: This force formed the smallest moons.
Sent 14: It also formed our Sun.
Sent 15: This force caused more than just our solar system to form.
Sent 16: It caused all the other solar systems to form.
Sent 17: It caused the formation of all the galaxies of the universe.
Question: What force causes your pencil to fall to the floor and also formed every object in the universe? (A) Centrifugal force (B) Mechanical force (C) Gravity (D) Inertia.
[A]: C.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: On December 4, as news came in about the discoveries in Jordan, National Security Council (NSC) Counterterrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke wrote Berger, "If George's [Tenet's] story about a planned series of UBL attacks at the Millennium is true, we will need to make some decisions NOW."Sent 2: He told us he held several conversations with President Clinton during the crisis.
Sent 3: He suggested threatening reprisals against the Taliban in Afghanistan in the event of any attacks on U.S. interests, anywhere, by Bin Laden.
Sent 4: He further proposed to Berger that a strike be made during the last week of 1999 against al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan-a proposal not adopted.
Sent 5: Warned by the CIA that the disrupted Jordanian plot was probably part of a larger series of attacks intended for the millennium, some possibly involving chemical weapons, the Principals Committee met on the night of December 8 and decided to task Clarke's Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) to develop plans to deter and disrupt al Qaeda plots.
Sent 6: Michael Sheehan, the State Department member of the CSG, communicated warnings to the Taliban that they would be held responsible for future al Qaeda attacks."Sent 7: Mike was not diplomatic," Clarke reported to Berger.
Sent 8: With virtually no evidence of a Taliban response, a new approach was made to Pakistan.
Sent 9: 13 General Anthony Zinni, the commander of Central Command (CENTCOM), was designated as the President's special envoy and sent to ask General Musharraf to "take whatever action you deem necessary to resolve the Bin Laden problem at the earliest possible time."Sent 10: But Zinni came back emptyhanded.
Sent 11: As Ambassador William Milam reported from Islamabad, Musharraf was "unwilling to take the political heat at home."Sent 12: The CIA worked hard with foreign security services to detain or at least keep an eye on suspected Bin Laden associates.
Sent 13: Tenet spoke to 20 of his foreign counterparts.
Sent 14: Disruption and arrest operations were mounted against terrorists in eight countries.
Sent 15: In mid-December, President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign proxies to detain Bin Laden lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S. custody.
Sent 16: The authority was to capture, not kill, though lethal force might be used if necessary.16Tenet would later send a message to all CIA personnel overseas, saying, "The threat could not be more real.
Question: In which way was Mike not diplomatic? (A) Mike came back emptyhanded from meeting General Musharraf (B) He came back backhanded (C) When he communicated warnings to the Taliban that they would be held responsible for future al Qaeda attacks (D) Mike was undiplomatic in approaching Pakistan (E) Mike undiplomatically abused UBL and al Qaeda.
[A]: C.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: A government-sponsored coup last year made Bruce Iwasaki and Neal Dudovitz the kings of Los Angeles County's federally funded legal aid community.
Sent 2: The two men emerged atop a changed landscape that resulted from a decade of begging for a share of shrinking public dollars doled out by an unsympathetic GOP-controlled Congress.
Sent 3: That era was capped in 1998, when the Legal Services Corp. forced 275 legal aid providers nationwide to combine into 179.
Sent 4: To comply with the orders from their main funding source, a new species of poverty lawyer emerged - a tech-savvy and button-down breed who swapped neighborhood walkin offices for toll-free phone lines, self-help kiosks and Internet access to legal advice.
Sent 5: While some organizations made the dramatic change look effortless, for others, it did not come easy.
Sent 6: And few programs provide more dramatic illustrations of the promise and pitfalls of government-funded legal services than Los Angeles County's two largest providers of federally funded services - Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Pacoima-based Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County.
Sent 7: From his offices in Koreatown, Iwasaki, a soft-spoken former O'Melveny & Myers attorney, quietly engineered a merger between a much smaller Legal Aid Society of Long Beach and his program, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
Sent 8: The merger was completed peacefully within a year of the federal order.
Sent 9: Today, the programs operate seamlessly, offering new innovations - including toll-free multilingual phone advisers, expanded hours for domestic-violence clinics, and renewed immigration and consumer aid - built on the foundations of the old program.
Sent 10: The organization is Los Angeles' largest government-funded group, with a budget of $11 million leveraged into $40 million in legal services to the poor.
Question: Who was the owner of Legal Aid Society of Long Beach before the merger? (A) Kamile Stevenson (B) Bruce Iwasaki (C) Tony Alvorez (D) Neal Dudovitz.
[A]: | D.
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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: 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: Balboa, Leonardo da Vinci, and Isaac Newton are all types of what? (A) Robots (B) Sapient species (C) Arrowtongue (D) Scientists (E) Probes (F) Apes (G) Interplanetary spacecraft.
Output: | A, 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.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: The 1933 double eagle, a $20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, $7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price "suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong," said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: "This is an astonishing new record for a coin," he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, "The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism."Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on "a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending."Sent 9: He added, "I am thrilled with the price."Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for $4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: "I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business," said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: "This is the Mona Lisa of coins," said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: "It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit."Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.
Question: Where is the buyer of the 1933 double eagle coin believed to reside? (A) USA (B) London (C) United States (D) Britain (E) The Middle East (F) Israel (G) Germany.
[EX A]: A, C.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: The National Security Act of 1947 created the position of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI).
Sent 2: Independent from the departments of Defense, State, Justice, and other policy departments, the DCI heads the U.S.intelligence community and provides intelligence to federal entities.
Sent 3: The sole element of the intelligence community independent from a cabinet agency is the CIA.
Sent 4: As an independent agency, it collects, analyzes, and disseminates intelligence from all sources.
Sent 5: The CIA's number one customer is the president of the United States, who also has the authority to direct it to conduct covert operations.
Sent 6: Although covert actions represent a very small fraction of the Agency's entire budget, these operations have at times been controversial and over time have dominated the public's perception of the CIA.
Sent 7: The DCI is confirmed by the Senate but is not technically a member of the president's cabinet.
Sent 8: The director's power under federal law over the loose, confederated "intelligence community" is limited.
Sent 9: He or she states the community's priorities and coordinates development of intelligence agency budget requests for submission to Congress.
Sent 10: This responsibility gives many the false impression that the DCI has line authority over the heads of these agencies and has the power to shift resources within these budgets as the need arises.
Sent 11: Neither is true.
Sent 12: In fact, the DCI's real authority has been directly proportional to his personal closeness to the president, which has waxed and waned over the years, and to others in government, especially the secretary of defense.
Sent 13: Intelligence agencies under the Department of Defense account for approximately 80 percent of all U.S. spending for intelligence, including some that supports a national customer base and some that supports specific Defense Department or military service needs.
Sent 14: As they are housed in the Defense Department, these agencies are keenly attentive to the military's strategic and tactical requirements.
Question: Who coordinates development of intelligence agency budget requests for submission to Congress? (A) CIA (B) The President (C) Assistant Director of Central Intelligence (D) President of the United States (E) Director of Central Intelligence (F) The Vice President (G) DCI (H) Senators.
[EX A]: E, G.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Emery Simms is a highly educated and successful business tycoon whose life takes a turn for the worse when he engages in an adulterous fling with the wildly free-spirited and exotic Allanah .
Sent 2: Emery kills a man that was trying to get information out of him .
Sent 3: It is then witnessed by a man who runs and flees afterwords .
Sent 4: Emery does n't see that the man he killed cell phone is there and it has all the call logs in it .
Sent 5: He then makes a phone call to his friend who does not answer the phone .
Sent 6: He later in the movie meets Alannah who 's car has broken down .
Sent 7: He gives her a ride to her work not knowing that she is working an angle to get what she wants .
Sent 8: He then calls her and insists that they have dinner .
Sent 9: They do but the police are following and see them make out and so does a man that is following her .
Sent 10: The crazy man comes to the resturaunt and attacks Emery .
Sent 11: Emery goes to see Alannah and sees the place she is staying at and takes her to one of their properties which is the condo .
Sent 12: She makes herself at home and even invites a friend over who says she can keep the condo and the life if there is a hole in the condom .
Sent 13: To which Alannah says no. .
Sent 14: Later Emery drops by for some sex and she has her friend wait outside so that she can do what she needs to do with Emery and it 's hot just like when they had sex in Emery 's car .
Sent 15: Emery visit 's his friend who gives him a box cutter and tells him to help him unpack .
Sent 16: He does and they comment on some fun times they had in college .
Sent 17: After that there is more motives .
Question: What two thinks does Emery fail to notice? (A) The condo and the cell phone (B) The cell phone of killed man, and Alannah was working an angle to get what she wants (C) A dog (D) A cell phone (E) Being followed, and the cell phone of the man he killed.
[EX A]: | B, D, E.
| 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 after-action review had treated the CIA as the lead agency for any offensive against al Qaeda, and the principals, at their March 10 meeting, had endorsed strengthening the CIA's capability for that role.
Sent 2: To the CTC, that meant proceeding with "The Plan," which it had put forward half a year earlier-hiring and training more case officers and building up the capabilities of foreign security services that provided intelligence via liaison.
Sent 3: On occasion, as in Jordan in December 1999, these liaison services took direct action against al Qaeda cells.
Sent 4: In the CTC and higher up, the CIA's managers believed that they desperately needed funds just to continue their current counterterrorism effort, for they reckoned that the millennium alert had already used up all of the Center's funds for the current fiscal year; the Bin Laden unit had spent 140 percent of its allocation.
Sent 5: Tenet told us he met with Berger to discuss funding for counterterrorism just two days after the principals' meeting.
Sent 6: While Clarke strongly favored giving the CIA more money for counterterrorism, he differed sharply with the CIA's managers about where it should come from.
Sent 7: They insisted that the CIA had been shortchanged ever since the end of the Cold War.
Sent 8: Their ability to perform any mission, counterterrorism included, they argued, depended on preserving what they had, restoring what they had lost since the beginning of the 1990s, and building from there-with across-the-board recruitment and training of new case officers, and the reopening of closed stations.
Sent 9: To finance the counterterrorism effort, Tenet had gone to congressional leaders after the 1998 embassy bombings and persuaded them to give the CIA a special supplemental appropriation.
Sent 10: Now, in the aftermath of the millennium alert, Tenet wanted a boost in overall funds for the CIA and another supplemental appropriation specifically for counterterrorism.
Sent 11: To Clarke, this seemed evidence that the CIA's leadership did not give sufficient priority to the battle against Bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Sent 12: He told us that James Pavitt, the head of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, "said if there's going to be money spent on going after Bin Laden, it should be given to him.
Sent 13: My view was that he had had a lot of money to do it and a long time to do it, and I didn't want to put more good money after bad."Sent 14: The CIA had a very different attitude: Pavitt told us that while the CIA's Bin Laden unit did"extraordinary and commendable work," his chief of station in London "was just as much part of the al Qaeda struggle as an officer sitting in [the Bin Laden unit]."Sent 15: The dispute had large managerial implications, for Clarke had found Ailies in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Question: Who claimed that James Pavitt said "if there's going to be money spent on going after Bin Laden, it should be given to him." (A) Government (B) Tenet (C) Clarke.
[A]: C.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Growing up on a farm near St. Paul, L. Mark Bailey didn't dream of becoming a judge.
Sent 2: Even when he graduated from North Decatur High School in 1975, sitting on the bench someday seemed more like a leisurely activity than a career.
Sent 3: Somewhere along the line, all of that changed.
Sent 4: Bailey received his bachelor's degree from the University of Indianapolis in 1978 and a jurisprudence doctorate from Indiana University-Indianapolis in 1982.
Sent 5: After several years of private practice from 1982-90, he became the judge of Decatur County Court for a year.
Sent 6: The Indiana legislature renamed that judgeship and Bailey was tabbed Decatur Superior Court judge from 1992-98, winning reelection twice.
Sent 7: From there, his career continued on the fast track and Bailey was appointed by Gov. Frank O'Bannon to sit on the Indiana Court of Appeals First District, where he works today.
Sent 8: Despite his quick climb up the legal ladder, Bailey has always found time to help out in causes he feels strongly about.
Sent 9: It was for his dedication to the law and the people that are affected by it that he was recently recognized.
Sent 10: The Indiana Pro Bono Commission hosted its annual celebration event, the Randall T. Shepard Dinner, at French Lick Springs Spa in October.
Sent 11: More than 100 judges, lawyers and dignitaries were present for the gathering.
Sent 12: One of the highlights of the event was the presentation of the first-ever Randall T. Shepard award for excellence in pro bono work.
Sent 13: Bailey received the award for his three years of volunteer work at Indiana Pro Bono Commission.
Sent 14: The award was named after the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court to honor his statewide vision on justice.
Sent 15: The qualifications for the award were based upon demonstrated dedication to the innovative development and delivery of legal services to the poor in one of the 14 pro bono districts of Indiana.
Sent 16: "This award came as a real surprise to me.
Sent 17: It is truly an honor.
Sent 18: Just being the first chair of the commission which began the implementation of the pro bono process was somewhat humbling.
Question: What did L. Mark Bailey do after he graduated from Indiana University-Indianapolis? (A) He became a judge of Decatur County for a year (B) Being appointed to the state Supreme court (C) Worked in private practice from 1982-90 (D) He worked as a clerk (E) Several years of private practice from 1982-90,.
[A]: A, C, E.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Tokhtakhounov, whose age was given by Comey as 53 or 62, is a "major figure in international Eurasian organized crime," Comey said.
Sent 2: Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and now a Russian citizen, he is known as Taivanchik, or Little Taiwanese, for his Central Asian ethnic background.
Sent 3: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, he has been implicated in arms trading and Russian art smuggling, and in the Russian news media he was accused of complicity in a plot to extort $10 million from the head of a Russian sports foundation.
Sent 4: He appears to have moved to France in 1989, according to news media reports, and is reported to have Israeli citizenship also.
Sent 5: Comey said Tokhtakhounov had three residences in Italy: Forte dei Marmi, Rome and Milan.
Sent 6: The complaint against Tokhtakhounov's traces his contact with figure skating to 2000, when he proposed to Gailhaguet the creation of a professional hockey team in Paris that would provide revenue for the French Skating Federation.
Sent 7: ( Gailhaguet and Anissina are not referred to by name in an accompanying FBI agent's affidavit, but by their descriptions their identities are obvious.) In return, Gailhaguet told the FBI on Feb. 23 as the Olympics were taking place, Tokhtakhounov asked for Gailhaguet's help in renewing his French visa, which was about to expire.
Sent 8: But when Gailhaguet sought guidance from a French government official, he was told that "Tokhtakhounov's money is bad," the affidavit said.
Sent 9: The federal complaint offers many details of the alleged conspiracy, including excerpts from a transcript of the Italian wiretaps.
Sent 10: later suspended Le Gougne and Gailhaguet for three years.
Sent 11: The federal complaint did not describe the possibility of a wider conspiracy or any contact between Tokhtakhounov, or his unnamed co-conspirators, with Le Gougne.
Sent 12: "We have alleged no connection between this man with any officials other than with Russian federation officials," James B. Comey, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a news conference.
Sent 13: He said that Tokhtakhounov "reached out to a co-conspirator, somebody connected to the Russian Skating Federation, who did the legwork for him.".
Question: Which countries did Tokhtakhounov extort money from which countries? (A) France (B) Russia (C) Belgium (D) Israel (E) Botswana (F) None (G) Germany.
[A]: | B.
| 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.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Once upon a time, there was a squirrel named Joey.
Sent 2: Joey loved to go outside and play with his cousin Jimmy.
Sent 3: Joey and Jimmy played silly games together, and were always laughing.
Sent 4: One day, Joey and Jimmy went swimming together at their Aunt Julie's pond.
Sent 5: Joey woke up early in the morning to eat some food before they left.
Sent 6: He couldn't find anything to eat except for pie!
Sent 7: Usually, Joey would eat cereal, fruit (a pear), or oatmeal for breakfast.
Sent 8: After he ate, he and Jimmy went to the pond.
Sent 9: On their way there they saw their friend Jack Rabbit.
Sent 10: They dove into the water and swam for several hours.
Sent 11: The sun was out, but the breeze was cold.
Sent 12: Joey and Jimmy got out of the water and started walking home.
Sent 13: Their fur was wet, and the breeze chilled them.
Sent 14: When they got home, they dried off, and Jimmy put on his favorite purple shirt.
Sent 15: Joey put on a blue shirt with red and green dots.
Sent 16: The two squirrels ate some food that Joey's mom, Jasmine, made and went off to bed.
Question: What did the two squirrel's do when they got to Joey's house? (A) Put on shirts (B) Swam (C) Joey and Jimmy got to Joey's house, they dried off, dressed themselves and ate some food that Jasmine made.
Ex Output:
A, C.
Ex 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: Who is mentioned as being at the birthday party? (A) Neighbors (B) A clown, friends (C) Both Parents (D) Tim, his dad (E) Friends (F) Teachers (G) Tim, his friends and his Dad.
Ex Output:
D, E, G.
Ex Input:
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: Did Melgen and Menendez have established connections with one another? (A) No (B) Yes.
Ex Output:
| B.
| 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: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses.
Sent 2: "If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them," he said.
Sent 3: In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981.
Sent 4: The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities.
Sent 5: His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized.
Sent 6: The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial.
Sent 7: Powell said his discussions with Mahathir "touched on the case" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had "always felt" were flawed.
Sent 8: The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism.
Question: How is Colin Powell's approach to relations with the Indonesian military different than the US previous approach? (A) Powell did not want to foster cooperation (B) He wanted to distance himself from them (C) In the past, the US distanced themselves from countries the perpetrate human rights violations, but Powell is trying to rebuild the relationship to positively influence those countries (D) He wanted to foster cooperation with them (E) Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses.
| Solution: C, D, E. | 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: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: "It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance," says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. "There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now," he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm "They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow," he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods » "It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution," says Allen.
Question: Why does Cashawn Myers feel Urban Farming as " its almost like a renaissance" and a way to reconnect with the past and grow? (A) Because it has never been done before (B) Because African Americans were brought here to cultivate land and returning to the past is a way to move forward (C) Because it allows African-Americans to work the land as they did when they first came to America (D) Urban farming is unique (E) As blacks were slaves in previous generations, African Americans doing urban farming is a way to farm that is helpful.
Solution: | B, C, E. | 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.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: In 2415 , after a virus in 2011 wiped out 99 % of the Earth's population , all of the survivors inhabit Bregna , a walled city-state , Which is ruled by a congress of scientists .
Sent 2: Although Bregna is idyllic , people are routinely disappearing and everyone is suffering from bad dreams .
Sent 3: on Flux is a member of the ` Monicans ' , an underground rebel organization who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by The Handler .
Sent 4: After a mission to destroy a surveillance station , on comes home to find her sister Una has been killed for being mistaken for a Monican .
Sent 5: When on is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader , Trevor Goodchild , she discovers that both she and the Monicans are being manipulated by council members in a secret coup .
Sent 6: This discovery causes on to question the origins of everyone in Bregna ; and in particular , her own personal connection to Trevor .
Sent 7: It turns out that everyone in Bregna is actually a clone , grown from recycled DNA .
Sent 8: With the dead constantly being reborn into new individuals and still bearing partial memories of their previous lives , there has been an increase in the troubling dreams .
Sent 9: Recycling and cloning became necessary since the original viral antidote made humans infertile .
Sent 10: Trevor's ongoing experiments , as with all his clone ancestors , has been trying to reverse the infertility .
Sent 11: on learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor's wife , Katherine and is the first Katherine clone in over 400 years .
Sent 12: One of Trevor's experiments , Una , was successful as she became pregnant .
Question: What are possibilities of previous lives? (A) Virus (B) Partial memories of their previous lives (C) Recycling and Cloning (D) Babies (E) Dreams are memories (F) DNA.
Output: C, E.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: When Alexander destroyed Tyre, most of the towns on the route to Egypt quickly capitulated.
Sent 2: A later tradition recorded his entry into Jerusalem: according to Josephus, Alexander was shown the Book of Daniel's prophecy, presumably chapter 8, which described a mighty Greek king who would conquer the Persian Empire.
Sent 3: He spared Jerusalem and pushed south into Egypt.
Sent 4: However, Alexander met with resistance at Gaza.
Sent 5: The stronghold was heavily fortified and built on a hill, requiring a siege.
Sent 6: When "his engineers pointed out to him that because of the height of the mound it would be impossible... this encouraged Alexander all the more to make the attempt".
Sent 7: After three unsuccessful assaults, the stronghold fell, but not before Alexander had received a serious shoulder wound.
Sent 8: As in Tyre, men of military age were put to the sword and the women and children were sold into slavery.
Sent 9: Alexander advanced on Egypt in later 332 BC, where he was regarded as a liberator.
Sent 10: He was pronounced son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
Sent 11: Henceforth, Alexander often referred to Zeus-Ammon as his true father, and after his death, currency depicted him adorned with rams horn as a symbol of his divinity.
Sent 12: During his stay in Egypt, he founded Alexandria-by-Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom after his death.
Question: What part of Egypt did he encounter resistance? (A) Jerusalem (B) Gaza.
Output: B.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Also on Feb. 12, a week before the ice dancing finals, Tokhtakhounov told Anissina's mother in a telephone call that the Russian federation official "had called me from America" to assure that "we are going to make" Anissina "an Olympic champion."Sent 2: He told her that the Russian skating federation official "will help -- he has two or three judges."Sent 3: On or about March 7, in a conversation between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina, she said she would have won the event without his assistance because the Russian judge did not vote for her and her partner.
Sent 4: She also apologized for not calling to thank him earlier, but that Gailhaguet had forbidden her.
Sent 5: She told Tokhtakhounov that she knew the FBI had interviewed Gailhaguet because of information that Tokhtakhounov "was involved with the results" of the ice dancing.
Sent 6: He assured her that it was nonsense, but that Gailhaguet "knows my name very well -- he tried to help me, and later he made stuff up to scare you so you would not connect me to him even more."Sent 7: The conversations seem to indicate a familiarity between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina.
Sent 8: Tass, the official Russian news agency, reported that Anissina attended a ceremony in 1999 at a Paris hotel honoring Tokhtakhounov for his philanthropy.
Sent 9: That Russian organized crime may have infiltrated international sport at the Olympics stunned Phyllis Howard, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
Sent 10: "This is a criminal act and it certainly puts things in a different league," Howard said.
Sent 11: Lloyd Ward, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said in a statement, "Competitors from all nations must be assured that they compete on a level playing field.".
Question: Who is going to help making Anissina "an Olympic champion"? (A) Tokhtakhounov (B) Phyllis Howard (C) Lloyd Ward (D) Russian federation official (E) The Russian skating federation official (F) Gailhaguet.
| Output: A, D, E.
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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.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Crew members ran for their lives when overhanging metalwork crashed onto a stage in a Toronto park Saturday afternoon, pinning and killing one man, authorities said.
Sent 2: The collapse happened around 4 p.m., one hour before spectators were set to begin streaming in for a concert by the alternative rock group Radiohead.
Sent 3: Several people were on the stage at the time, preparing for the show, when scaffolding-like material towering about 50 feet above collapsed.
Sent 4: "Unfortunately, four people were hurt," Toronto police Constable Tony Vella said.
Sent 5: "The remainder of the people, when they heard the stage coming (down), ran from the area."Sent 6: Firefighters arrived to find one man "trapped under the structure," said Toronto fire Platoon Chief Tony Bellavance.
Sent 7: They helped to extricate the man, then moved away from what was then still considered an "unstable structure," Bellavance added.
Sent 8: Paramedics, who happened to be at the scene in preparation for the concert, "immediately rendered aid," according to on-site Toronto Emergency Medical Services commander Peter Rotolo.
Sent 9: The victim -- who has not been identified, amid efforts to contact his next of kin -- was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sent 10: Police said he was in his 30s.
Sent 11: Another man who suffered serious injuries due to the collapse was transported to Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, Ian McClelland of the city's EMS department said.
Sent 12: The 45-year-old man suffered a head injury that isn't considered life-threatening, according to Toronto police.
Sent 13: Two other men with minor injuries were assessed and released, McClelland said.
Sent 14: Aerial footage afterward showed that some metal framing -- some of it covered in a blue material -- crumpled on the stage, which was in front of a large grassy area.
Sent 15: Some of the scaffolding-like material remained standing, reaching about 50 feet in the sky.
Sent 16: The stage was being set up especially for the Radiohead concert, Vella said.
Sent 17: At the time it came down, the weather was good with no storm rolling through or significant winds, added fellow police Constable Harrison Ford.
Question: What time was it when overhanging metalwork crashed onto a stage in a Toronto park Saturday afternoon? (A) 6:00 PM (B) After 4pm (C) Around 8pm (D) 4 p.m (E) Around 4pm (F) Exactly 4am (G) 4:00 PM.
A: D, E, G.
****
Q: 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.
A: C.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year — more than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities abound — several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean — and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weather — not to mention easily organized package vacations — are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.
Question: What notable geological features are located west of Algarve? (A) Golf facilities (B) Beautiful beaches (C) Orange cliffs and eroded rock stacks (D) Orange cliffs (E) Volcanoes (F) North African landscape (G) Eroded rock stacks (H) Cosmopolitan cities.
A: | C, D, G.
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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.
Paragraph- Sent 1: Crew members ran for their lives when overhanging metalwork crashed onto a stage in a Toronto park Saturday afternoon, pinning and killing one man, authorities said.
Sent 2: The collapse happened around 4 p.m., one hour before spectators were set to begin streaming in for a concert by the alternative rock group Radiohead.
Sent 3: Several people were on the stage at the time, preparing for the show, when scaffolding-like material towering about 50 feet above collapsed.
Sent 4: "Unfortunately, four people were hurt," Toronto police Constable Tony Vella said.
Sent 5: "The remainder of the people, when they heard the stage coming (down), ran from the area."Sent 6: Firefighters arrived to find one man "trapped under the structure," said Toronto fire Platoon Chief Tony Bellavance.
Sent 7: They helped to extricate the man, then moved away from what was then still considered an "unstable structure," Bellavance added.
Sent 8: Paramedics, who happened to be at the scene in preparation for the concert, "immediately rendered aid," according to on-site Toronto Emergency Medical Services commander Peter Rotolo.
Sent 9: The victim -- who has not been identified, amid efforts to contact his next of kin -- was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sent 10: Police said he was in his 30s.
Sent 11: Another man who suffered serious injuries due to the collapse was transported to Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, Ian McClelland of the city's EMS department said.
Sent 12: The 45-year-old man suffered a head injury that isn't considered life-threatening, according to Toronto police.
Sent 13: Two other men with minor injuries were assessed and released, McClelland said.
Sent 14: Aerial footage afterward showed that some metal framing -- some of it covered in a blue material -- crumpled on the stage, which was in front of a large grassy area.
Sent 15: Some of the scaffolding-like material remained standing, reaching about 50 feet in the sky.
Sent 16: The stage was being set up especially for the Radiohead concert, Vella said.
Sent 17: At the time it came down, the weather was good with no storm rolling through or significant winds, added fellow police Constable Harrison Ford.
Question: Who "immediately rendered aid" when overhanging metalwork crashed onto a stage in a Toronto park Saturday afternoon? (A) Mobile command unit members (B) Emergency medical services (C) Paramedics who happened to be at the scene (D) Parmedics (E) Firefighters (F) Paramedics.
C, D, F.
Paragraph- Sent 1: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and Allen were inclined to minimize.
Sent 2: One (which also applied to reconnaissance flights) was money.
Sent 3: A Predator cost about $3 million.
Sent 4: If the CIA flew Predators for its own reconnaissance or covert action purposes, it might be able to borrow them from the Air Force, but it was not clear that the Air Force would bear the cost if a vehicle went down.
Sent 5: Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz took the position that the CIA should have to pay for it; the CIA disagreed.
Sent 6: Second, Tenet in particular questioned whether he, as Director of Central Intelligence, should operate an armed Predator."Sent 7: This was new ground,"he told us.
Sent 8: Tenet ticked off key questions: What is the chain of command?
Sent 9: Who takes the shot?
Sent 10: Are America's leaders comfortable with the CIA doing this, going outside of normal military command and control?
Sent 11: Charlie Allen told us that when these questions were discussed at the CIA, he and the Agency's executive director, A. B." Buzzy" Krongard, had said that either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he.
Sent 12: Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.
Sent 13: It had been built to hit tanks, not people.
Sent 14: It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.
Sent 15: In the configuration planned by the Air Force through mid-2001, the Predator's missile would not be able to hit a moving vehicle.
Sent 16: White House officials had seen the Predator video of the "man in white."Sent 17: On July 11, Hadley tried to hurry along preparation of the armed system.
Sent 18: He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1.
Question: What did the CIA not want to pay for? (A) The cost of a Predator that went down/was destroyed (B) More tanks (C) Pay for (D) The predator.
A, D.
Paragraph- Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: "It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance," says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. "There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now," he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm "They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow," he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods » "It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution," says Allen.
Question: Why does Cashawn Myers feel Urban Farming as " its almost like a renaissance" and a way to reconnect with the past and grow? (A) Because it has never been done before (B) Because African Americans were brought here to cultivate land and returning to the past is a way to move forward (C) Because it allows African-Americans to work the land as they did when they first came to America (D) Urban farming is unique (E) As blacks were slaves in previous generations, African Americans doing urban farming is a way to farm that is helpful.
| B, C, E.
| 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.
[EX Q]: 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: Is lightning a form of static discharge? (A) No (B) Yes (C) Agree (D) Disagree.
[EX A]: B, C.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology.
Sent 2: Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkish mosque.
Sent 3: Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam.
Sent 4: Essabar's parents were said to have made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to sway him from this lifestyle.
Sent 5: Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership.
Sent 6: Mounir el Motassadeq, another Moroccan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at theTechnical University.
Sent 7: A witness has recalled Motassadeq saying that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it.
Sent 8: One of Motassadeq's roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a "good man" and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: Motassadeq would help conceal the Hamburg group's trip to Afghanistan in late 1999.
Sent 10: Abdelghani Mzoudi, also a Moroccan, arrived in Germany in the summer of 1993, after completing university courses in physics and chemistry.
Sent 11: Mzoudi studied in Dortmund, Bochum, and Muenster before moving to Hamburg in 1995.
Sent 12: Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg.
Sent 13: In April 1996, Mzoudi and Motassadeq witnessed the execution of Atta's will.
Sent 14: During the course of 1999, Atta and his group became ever more extreme and secretive, speaking only in Arabic to conceal the content of their conversations.
Sent 15: 87 When the four core members of the Hamburg cell left Germany to journey to Afghanistan late that year, it seems unlikely that they already knew about the planes operation; no evidence connects them to al Qaeda before that time.
Sent 16: Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States.
Sent 17: In short, they fit the bill for Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM.
Sent 18: Going to Afghanistan The available evidence indicates that in 1999, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah decided to fight in Chechnya against the Russians.
Question: In what year did Essabar meet Binalshibh? (A) 1997 (B) 1996 (C) 2001 (D) 1999 (E) 1998.
[EX A]: E.
[EX Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: After what seemed an eternity to Tibo, they arrived at the mouth of a cave between two rocky hills.
Sent 2: The opening was low and narrow.
Sent 3: A few saplings bound together with strips of rawhide closed it against stray beasts.
Sent 4: Bukawai removed the primitive door and pushed Tibo within.
Sent 5: The hyenas, snarling, rushed past him and were lost to view in the blackness of the interior.
Sent 6: Bukawai replaced the saplings and seizing Tibo roughly by the arm, dragged him along a narrow, rocky passage.
Sent 7: The floor was comparatively smooth, for the dirt which lay thick upon it had been trodden and tramped by many feet until few inequalities remained.
Sent 8: The passage was tortuous, and as it was very dark and the walls rough and rocky, Tibo was scratched and bruised from the many bumps he received.
Sent 9: Bukawai walked as rapidly through the winding gallery as one would traverse a familiar lane by daylight.
Sent 10: He knew every twist and turn as a mother knows the face of her child, and he seemed to be in a hurry.
Sent 11: He jerked poor little Tibo possibly a trifle more ruthlessly than necessary even at the pace Bukawai set; but the old witch-doctor, an outcast from the society of man, diseased, shunned, hated, feared, was far from possessing an angelic temper.
Sent 12: Nature had given him few of the kindlier characteristics of man, and these few Fate had eradicated entirely.
Sent 13: Shrewd, cunning, cruel, vindictive, was Bukawai, the witch-doctor.
Question: Where did the witch doctor take Tibo? (A) To the lake (B) Into a cave (C) To his living quarters.
[EX A]: | 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: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims.
Sent 2: After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.
Sent 3: On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Ponça.
Sent 4: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated.
Sent 5: Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors — converted by force to Christianity — as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities.
Sent 6: Mallorca prospered.
Sent 7: The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón and were left in peace.
Sent 8: The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.
Sent 9: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed.
Sent 10: In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades.
Sent 11: Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.
Sent 12: At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by Sanç and Jaume III.
Sent 13: But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Aragón.
Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349.
Sent 15: A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.
Sent 16: However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically.
Question: What caused a tranquility on the island of Menorca that lasted until 1287? (A) Pay an annual tribute (B) The Moors converted to Christianity (C) The annual tribute that the Moors agreed to pay to Alfonso III (D) Contrast to Mallorca (E) Juame I was an enlightened leader (F) The conversion to Christianity (G) The Moors on Menorca agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón.
A: | A, C, E, G. | 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: 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: Susan wanted to have a birthday party.
Sent 2: She called all of her friends.
Sent 3: She has five friends.
Sent 4: Her mom said that Susan can invite them all to the party.
Sent 5: Her first friend could not go to the party because she was sick.
Sent 6: Her second friend was going out of town.
Sent 7: Her third friend was not so sure if her parents would let her.
Sent 8: The fourth friend said maybe.
Sent 9: The fifth friend could go to the party for sure.
Sent 10: Susan was a little sad.
Sent 11: On the day of the party, all five friends showed up.
Sent 12: Each friend had a present for Susan.
Sent 13: Susan was happy and sent each friend a thank you card the next week.
Question: Did Susan call her friends before or after asking her mother? (A) No (B) Before asking her mother (C) Before (D) After asking her mother.
A: | 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.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.
Question: What is the difference between magnetic force and the force a human uses to move things? (A) Magnets do not have to touch something to exert force, it is extended over a distance (B) The difference lies in exertion. Unlike humans, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force (C) Magnets touch something (D) Magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force (E) The change magnet produce.
Answer: A, B, D.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Alexander the Great's accomplishments and legacy have been depicted in many cultures.
Sent 2: Alexander has figured in both high and popular culture beginning in his own era to the present day.
Sent 3: The Alexander Romance, in particular, has had a significant impact on portrayals of Alexander in later cultures, from Persian to medieval European to modern Greek.
Sent 4: Alexander may already have considered himself as the "King of Asia" after his victory at Issos, a conception strengthened by his subsequent successes.
Sent 5: The conception might have inspired the title given to Alexander in Babylonian documents, "king of the world (since "king of Asia" had no meaning in Babylonian geography).
Sent 6: It might also be alluded in the sarcastic comments by Anaxarchus, trying to rouse Alexander after the murder of Cleitus.
Sent 7: or in the orator Demades' comments that if Alexander were dead, "The whole world would stink of his corpse".
Sent 8: Alexander is called "kosmokrator", ruler of the world, in the later Alexander Romance.
Sent 9: Alexander features prominently in modern Greek folklore, more so than any other ancient figure.
Sent 10: The colloquial form of his name in modern Greek ("O Megalexandros") is a household name, and he is the only ancient hero to appear in the Karagiozis shadow play.
Sent 11: One well-known fable among Greek seamen involves a solitary mermaid who would grasp a ship's prow during a storm and ask the captain "Is King Alexander alive?".
Sent 12: The correct answer is "He is alive and well and rules the world!", causing the mermaid to vanish and the sea to calm.
Sent 13: Any other answer would cause the mermaid to turn into a raging Gorgon who would drag the ship to the bottom of the sea, all hands aboard.
Question: What were the orator Demades' comments referring to Alexanders death? (A) No one would notice (B) Within section seven you will come across the creator of the phrase referring to Alexander's death. They state, "The whole world would stink of his corpse." (C) Demades' comments that if Alexander were dead, "The whole world would stink of his corpse".
Answer: B, C.
Question: 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.
Answer: | 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.
Paragraph- Sent 1: The dermis is the inner layer of skin.
Sent 2: The dermis has blood vessels and nerve endings.
Sent 3: The nerve endings explain why your skin is sensitive.
Sent 4: You can sense pain, pressure, and temperature.
Sent 5: You cut your finger and it starts to bleed.
Sent 6: What has happened?
Sent 7: If your skin bleeds, it means you have cut the dermis layer and damaged blood vessels.
Sent 8: The cut really hurts.
Sent 9: It hurts because of the nerve endings in this skin layer.
Sent 10: The dermis also contains hair follicles and two types of glands.
Sent 11: Hair follicles are structures where hairs originate.
Sent 12: Each hair grows out of a follicle.
Sent 13: Hair passes up through the epidermis.
Sent 14: It then extends above the skin surface.
Sent 15: Oil glands produce an oily substance.
Sent 16: The oil is secreted into hair follicles.
Question: If you were to cut your finger, why does it hurt? (A) Because you seriously hurt yourself (B) Because of the never endings (C) Because The dermis have nerve endings (D) Oil glandes (E) It hurts due to the nerve endings in the dermis layer.
B, C, E.
Paragraph- Sent 1: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness.
Sent 2: Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediately interpret the plane's failure to respond as a sign that it had been hijacked.
Sent 3: At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight.
Sent 4: He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency.
Sent 5: Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft.
Sent 6: At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft.
Sent 7: The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking.
Sent 8: The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a "no radio" aircraft.
Sent 9: The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11.
Sent 10: He became even more concerned as its route changed, moving into another sector's airspace.
Sent 11: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path, and asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11.
Sent 12: At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes.
Sent 13: Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay.
Sent 14: We are returning to the airport.
Sent 15: The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words "we have some planes."Sent 16: The next transmission came seconds later: American 11: Nobody move.
Sent 17: Everything will be okay.
Sent 18: If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.
Question: What did the controllers do when American 11 left the first controller's airspace and moved into another sector? (A) The suspected a hijacking (B) Immediately began to move aircraft out of its path and asked other aircraft (C) They asked other aircraft to look for American 11 (D) They began to move aircrafts out of its path (E) They reached out on the emergency frequency (F) Told the supervisor that something was wrong with the plane (G) They moved other flights out of its path and asked other area planes to look for American 11.
B, C, D, G.
Paragraph- Sent 1: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims.
Sent 2: After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.
Sent 3: On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Ponça.
Sent 4: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated.
Sent 5: Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors — converted by force to Christianity — as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities.
Sent 6: Mallorca prospered.
Sent 7: The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón and were left in peace.
Sent 8: The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.
Sent 9: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed.
Sent 10: In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades.
Sent 11: Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.
Sent 12: At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by Sanç and Jaume III.
Sent 13: But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Aragón.
Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349.
Sent 15: A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.
Sent 16: However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically.
Question: What caused a tranquility on the island of Menorca that lasted until 1287? (A) Pay an annual tribute (B) The Moors converted to Christianity (C) The annual tribute that the Moors agreed to pay to Alfonso III (D) Contrast to Mallorca (E) Juame I was an enlightened leader (F) The conversion to Christianity (G) The Moors on Menorca agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón.
| A, C, E, G.
| 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.
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: The 1933 double eagle, a $20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, $7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price "suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong," said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: "This is an astonishing new record for a coin," he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, "The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism."Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on "a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending."Sent 9: He added, "I am thrilled with the price."Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for $4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: "I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business," said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: "This is the Mona Lisa of coins," said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: "It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit."Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.
Question: What nickname did the editor of Coin World call the 1933 double eagle coin? (A) Double eagle (B) Secret agent (C) The Mona Lisa of coins (D) Forbidden fruit.
A: | C. | 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.
[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: Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine died Sunday, her longtime friend Noel Beutel said Monday.
Sent 2: She was 96.
Sent 3: Fontaine died "very peacefully" in her sleep of natural causes, Beutel said.
Sent 4: She was in her Carmel, California, home.
Sent 5: She is survived by her older sister, actress Olivia de Havilland -- with whom she had not spoken for decades.
Sent 6: Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, where her British father was a patent lawyer and teacher.
Sent 7: She and her sister moved to Saratoga, California, with their mother in 1919 when her parents separated.
Sent 8: Fontaine was a teenager when she began her acting career as Joan Burfield in the 1935 film "No More Ladies."Sent 9: She later adopted the stage name Fontaine -- the name of her mother's second husband.
Sent 10: She wrote in her 1978 autobiography, "No Bed of Roses," that her mother, who was an actress, began encouraging the rivalry with her older sister at an early age.
Sent 11: The feud extended to their careers when both sisters were nominated for best actress Oscars in 1942.
Sent 12: Fontaine, who was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion," beat her sister Olivia de Havilland, who was nominated for "Hold Back the Dawn."Sent 13: De Havilland won the first of her two Oscars in 1947 when she was given the best actress award for "To Each His Own."Sent 14: De Havilland and Fontaine remain the only sisters who have best-actress Academy Awards.
Sent 15: The long-standing feud with de Havilland was at such a peak during one Oscar winners' reunion in 1979 that they had to be seated on opposite ends of the stage.
Sent 16: "I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received," a statement released by Olivia de Havilland to CNN said.
Question: What were the occupations of Joan Fontaine's mother and father? (A) Actress (B) Teacher (C) Patent lawyer (D) Female actor (E) Singer (F) Dance teacher.
[EX A]: A, B, C, D.
[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: When you approach a friends house, what is the first thing you do before entering? (A) You wipe your feet (B) Clean your shoes (C) Wipe my shoes (D) You knock on the door (E) Take off your shoes (F) Ring the bell (G) knock.
[EX A]: | A, 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.
Example Input: 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.
Example Output: B, D.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Eric , a young boy , is excited about his birthday after reading a book and believes that a train will come for him , despite his sister Jill's disbelief .
Sent 2: A few hours later , the train station's control tower wakes up and in the roundhouse , Tillie , a young little blue switcher engine , along with her best bird friend , Chip , wakes up four other trains : Georgia , a kind all-purpose engine , Farnsworth , a stuck-up passenger engine , Jebediah , a worn-out old engine , and Pete , a gruff , burly freight engine .
Sent 3: After the tower assigns Farnsworth and Pete their jobs , Tillie tries to help with the milk train assigned to Jebediah , but the tower insists that she is too small for the job .
Sent 4: Georgia is assigned to pull the birthday train .
Sent 5: A clown named Rollo leads the toys into the train , including Stretch , a basketball player ; Missy , a ballerina ; a Handy Pandy , a panda ; Perky , an elephant ; and Grumpella , a stuffed bird .
Sent 6: During her journey , Georgia breaks down and is taken back to the roundhouse by Doc .
Sent 7: Left behind , Rollo eventually takes Doc's advice of flagging down one of the other engines returning from their daily runs over the mountain .
Sent 8: Farnsworth and Pete turn down their offers to pull the train .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , Tillie asks the tower to rescue the stranded train , but he insists that Tillie will never do the job .
Sent 10: Jebediah turns down his offer to pull the train because of his age , and returns to the roundhouse .
Sent 11: Chip and Tillie sneak past the sleeping tower and pulls the birthday train up a mountain .
Question: What's the name of the clown who's left behind? (A) Doc (B) Chip (C) Rollo.
Example Output: C.
Example Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot .
Sent 2: Jason objects to the stranger's presence , being Susan's guardian and protective of her .
Sent 3: He challenges him to a shootout , but the stranger pulls his pistol before Jason's can even clear the holster .
Sent 4: Calaveras Kate , a saloon singer who's in love with Jason , is relieved when the stranger declines to pull the trigger .
Sent 5: Rafael Moreno suddenly rides into town and picks a fight with the stranger .
Sent 6: Their brawl continues until the arrival of Judge Wallace Wintrop and his niece , Sheila , who have come to town from back East and deplore all this random violence out West .
Sent 7: The stranger is recognized as Reb Randall , the dead man's brother .
Sent 8: He is looking for the killer , who could be Rafael , or could be Jason , or could even be Billy Buckett , the coward of the county .
Sent 9: The women hold their breath to see if the men they love will survive .
Question: What is the aim of the stranger? (A) Get free food at a barbecue (B) Poor (C) Slow (D) Avenger his brother's death (E) To look for his brother's killer (F) To take revenge for his brother (G) Find a wife.
Example Output: | D, E, F.
| 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.
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: Surviving being shot and stabbed at the end of the previous film , the stepfather has been institutionalized in Puget Sound , Washington since , spending his time building model houses in the workshop .
Sent 2: Assigned a new doctor named Joseph Danvers the stepfather begins confiding in him to gain his trust , ultimately murdering the doctor during a session by stabbing him in the neck with a blade smuggled out of the workshop .
Sent 3: After killing Danvers the stepfather beats a suspicious guard named Ralph Smith to death with his own nightstick with only two strikes and takes his uniform , successfully sneaking out of the sanitarium .
Sent 4: Checking into a hotel after robbing and murdering a traveling salesman the stepfather alters his appearance , takes the name Doctor Gene F. Clifford from the newspaper obituaries and travels to Palm Meadows , Los Angeles after seeing an ad for it on an episode of Dream House .
Sent 5: Gene arrives in Palm Meadows and meets real estate agent Carol Grayland and leases a house just across the street from her and her son Todd .
Sent 6: During a session with the wives of the neighborhood , Gene learns Carol 's dentist husband , Philip had absconded with his mistress the previous year .
Sent 7: Gene begins courting Carol , eventually winning over her and Todd .
Sent 8: Gene 's plan to marry Carol is soon complicated when Phil returns , wanting to reconcile with his wife .
Sent 9: Needing Phil out of the way , Gene persuades Carol to send Phil over for a meeting , during which Gene kills him with a broken bottle , covering up Phil 's disappearance afterward by arranging it so that it looks as though he simply ran off again .
Question: Who does the Stepfather plan to marry? (A) Carol (B) Doctor Clifford (C) A dentist (D) Carol Grayland (E) A real estate agent.
| Solution: A, D, E. | 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.
Paragraph- Sent 1: We waited for half an hour, watching the smoke curling over the house, and then, judging that the Indians had made off for fear of being ambushed, we crossed the clearing.
Sent 2: It took but a glance to read the story.
Sent 3: The women had been washing by the little brook before the cabin, with the children playing about them, when the Indians had come up and with a single volley killed them all except the child we had heard crying.
Sent 4: They had swooped down upon their victims, torn the scalps from their heads, looted the house, and set fire to it.
Sent 5: We dragged out the body of the woman which had been thrown within, in the hope that a spark of life might yet remain, but she was quite dead.
Sent 6: Beneath the warrior Spiltdorph had shot we found the child.
Sent 7: It was a boy of some six or seven years, and so covered with blood that it seemed it must be dead.
Sent 8: But we stripped it and washed it in the brook, and found no wounds upon it except in the head, where it had been struck with a hatchet before its scalp had been stripped off.
Sent 9: The cold water brought it back to life and it began to cry again, whereat Spiltdorph took off his coat and wrapped it tenderly about it.
Question: Who had a name in the story? (A) The warrior (B) Spiltdorph.
B.
Paragraph- Sent 1: Imagine you are standing in a farm field in central Illinois.
Sent 2: The land is so flat you can see for miles and miles.
Sent 3: On a clear day, you might see a grain silo 20 miles away.
Sent 4: You might think to yourself, it sure is flat around here.
Sent 5: If you drive one hundred miles to the south, the landscape changes.
Sent 6: In southern Illinois, there are rolling hills.
Sent 7: Why do you think this is?
Sent 8: What could have caused these features?
Sent 9: There are no big rivers that may have eroded and deposited this material.
Sent 10: The ground is capable of supporting grass and trees, so wind erosion would not explain it.
Sent 11: To answer the question, you need to go back 12,000 years.
Sent 12: Around 12,000 years ago, a giant ice sheet covered much of the Midwest United States.
Sent 13: Springfield, Illinois, was covered by over a mile of ice.
Sent 14: Its hard to imagine a mile thick sheet of ice.
Sent 15: The massive ice sheet, called a glacier, caused the features on the land you see today.
Sent 16: Where did glaciers go?
Sent 17: Where can you see them today?
Sent 18: Glaciers are masses of flowing ice.
Question: What features did the glaciers cause in Illinois? (A) A mile of ice (B) Rolling hills (C) Hills (D) Plateaus (E) Caves (F) Capable of supporting grass and trees (G) Flat land (H) Mountains.
B, C, G.
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 planet reaches Darwin IV by traveling at 20% the speed of light? (A) Balboa (B) Horus (C) Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter (D) Alien Planet (E) Leonardo da Vinci (F) Isaac Newton (G) Alien Planet with Von Braun.
| D, G.
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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: 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 was the name of the 2006 film about Pushkin's death, and who portrayed Pushkin? (A) The Last poet (B) Pushkin: The Last Duel (C) Sergei Bezrukov portrayed Pushkin in the movie, Pushkin: The Last Duel.
SOLUTION: B, C.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Fossils can be used to match up rock layers.
Sent 2: As organisms change over time, they look different.
Sent 3: Older fossils will look different than younger fossils.
Sent 4: Some organisms only survived for a short time before going extinct.
Sent 5: Knowing what organisms looked like at certain times also helps date rock layers.
Sent 6: Some fossils are better than others for this use.
Sent 7: The fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earths history are called index fossils.
Sent 8: Index fossils are commonly used to match rock layers.
Sent 9: You can see how this works in Figure 2.30.
Sent 10: If two rock layers have the same index fossils, then they're probably about the same age.
Question: How are index fossils useful? (A) They show us flora of the past (B) Knowing what organisms looked like at certain times also helps date rock layers, and index fossils are the fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earth's history (C) The fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earths history and help date fossils (D) For fuel (E) They help to determineage of rock layers (F) They are used to mark water levels (G) They are used to identify extinct animals (H) As markers for glacier activity.
SOLUTION: B, C, E.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: "It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes," said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: "It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this."Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: "I think on a stress test, they're failing," Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: "The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit," said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: "Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.".
Question: What kind of grades has Malaysia received concerning its handling of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? (A) Ok grades (B) Passing grades (C) Excellent (D) Satisfactory (E) It has passed (F) Failing grades (G) It hasn't emerged with very good grades (H) Not very good (I) Failing.
SOLUTION: | F, G, H, I.
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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: The Romans: Legend says Rome was founded by Romulus, sired with twin brother Remus by Mars of a Vestal Virgin and abandoned on the Palatine Hill to be suckled by a she-wolf.
Sent 2: Historians agree with the mythmakers that the site and traditional founding date of 753 b.c.
Sent 3: are just about right.
Sent 4: Under Etruscan domination, Rome had been a monarchy until a revolt in 510 b.c.
Sent 5: established a patrician republic, which lasted five centuries.
Sent 6: In contrast to other Italian cities weakened by internal rivalries and unstable government, Rome drew strength from a solid aristocracy of consuls and senate ruling over plebeians proud of their Roman citizenship and only rarely rebellious.
Sent 7: Recovering quickly from the Gallic invasion of 390 b.c.
Sent 8: , the Romans took effective control of the peninsula by a military conquest reinforced by a network of roads with names that exist to this day: Via Appia, Flaminia, Aurelia.
Sent 9: All roads did indeed lead to — and from — Rome.
Sent 10: By 250 b.c.
Sent 11: , the city's population had grown to an impressive 100,000.
Sent 12: Roman power extended throughout the Mediterranean with a victory in the Punic Wars against Carthage (now Tunisia) and conquests in Macedonia, Asia Minor, Spain, and southern France.
Sent 13: The rest of Italy participated only by tax contributions to the war effort and minor involvement in commerce and colonization.
Sent 14: Resentment surfaced when former Etruscan or Greek cities such as Capua, Syracuse, and Taranto supported Hannibal's invasion in 218 b.c.
Sent 15: Rome followed up defeat of the Carthaginians with large-scale massacres and enslavement of their Italian supporters.
Sent 16: The Third and final Punic War ended in 149 b.c.
Sent 17: , though national solidarity was still a long way off.
Sent 18: Under Julius Caesar, elected in 59 b.c.
Question: In what year had the Roman population grown to 100,000 individuals? (A) 149 b.c (B) After 250 b.c (C) 250 B.C (D) 200 B.C (E) By 250 b.c.
SOLUTION: C, E.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said "we have some planes."Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a "nationwide ground stop."Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers "observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.
Question: Why didn't the Indianapolis Center notice Flight 77 turn around? (A) Controllers were looking to the west and southwest (B) They could not find Flight 77 (C) Radar coverage was blocked by the hijackers (D) Command center radar was not operating (E) Because they were told not to focus on it (F) Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77 (G) The aircraft was east of its expected position.
SOLUTION: A, E, F, G.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Spain's Golden Age: Under Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain underwent a dramatic transformation.
Sent 2: In 1492 the royal pair presided over the final conquest over the Moors and discovery of the New World, including the great wealth that feat brought to Spain.
Sent 3: Spain flourished during a Golden Age, a century of Spanish economic and political supremacy in international affairs, accompanied by marvels of art and literature.
Sent 4: Ferdinand and Isabella were consummate Spaniards, committed to the expansion of the crown.
Sent 5: By contrast, their grandson, who assumed the throne in 1516, was born in Flanders in 1500, and Charles I could barely express himself in Spanish.
Sent 6: The first of the Habsburgs, he packed his retinue with Burgundian and Flemish nobles.
Sent 7: Soon after his arrival in Spain, the young man inherited the title of Holy Roman Emperor, as Charles V. The responsibilities of the crown kept him busy away from the royal residences of Toledo, Segovia, Valladolid, and Madrid.
Sent 8: While the monarch was away on one of his many business trips, his increasingly dissatisfied subjects protested violently.
Sent 9: A revolt of the comuneros, or townsmen, broke out in a number of Spanish cities, including Madrid.
Sent 10: The rebels occupied the alcázar, which had by then been converted to a royal palace.
Sent 11: The insurrection was quashed and its leaders executed, but the king got the message.
Sent 12: He tried thereafter to pay more attention to his Spanish constituency.
Question: What changes did Spain undergo during the Golden Age reign of Ferdinand and Isabella? (A) Wealth increased (B) The final conquest over the Moors and discovery of the New World (C) The monarchy was successfully overthrown by rebels (D) Art and literature flourished (E) The comuneros revolts (F) A gradual degradation of the economy (G) The New World was discovered (H) It expanded (I) The final conquest over the Moors and the discovery of the New World ushered in a century of Spanish economic and political supremacy in international affairs (J) Spain flourished during a Golden Age, a century of Spanish economic and political supremacy in international affairs, accompanied by marvels of art and literature (K) The Burgundians and Flemish took over the crown.
SOLUTION: | A, B, D, G, I, J.
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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: 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 was the age difference between Jeffrey Johnson and Steven Ercolino at the time of Steven Ercolino's death? (A) Five (B) Seventeen (C) 17 years (D) 17 (E) 20.
Solution: | B, C, D. | 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: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction.
Sent 2: The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park.
Sent 3: Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year.
Sent 4: "We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over," said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza.
Sent 5: "We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go.
Sent 6: We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys.
Sent 7: Without them, we would not have saved our homes.
Sent 8: We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy."Sent 9: Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers.
Sent 10: In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001.
Sent 11: While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes.
Sent 12: Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services.
Sent 13: In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution.
Sent 14: "There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles," said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project.
Sent 15: "Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns.
Sent 16: Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone."Sent 17: Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state.
Sent 18: Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel.
Question: The Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park would have closed without the help of whom? (A) The attorneys (B) The Columbia Legal Services (C) Without the people of Wenatchee (D) Legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services (E) Representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority (F) The residents' attorneys (G) The residents of the plaza (H) The Northwest Justice Project.
[A]: A, B, D, E, F, H.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Once upon a time Jimmy had a mother who told him that he was good at music.
Sent 2: Jimmy wanted to play music.
Sent 3: He did not know which instrument to play, so he tried a piano first.
Sent 4: The piano went like a sound.
Sent 5: Then he tried a guitar.
Sent 6: The guitar played.
Sent 7: His brother told him that the piano was better to start, so Jimmy played the piano.
Sent 8: He hammered on the keys.
Sent 9: Jimmy's brother liked this, but mom did not like this.
Sent 10: Jimmy tried playing very quiet.
Sent 11: Jimmy's mom liked this, but Jimmy's brother did not like this.
Sent 12: Jimmy tried playing in the middle.
Sent 13: Jimmy liked this, and Jimmy's mom liked this, and Jimmy's brother liked this.
Sent 14: It was great.
Question: What were the two instruments Jimmy played? (A) keys,hammer (B) Mom and brother (C) Piano and guitar (D) Guitar and piano (E) Instrument and music (F) Loud and quiet (G) Piano and violin.
[A]: C, D.
[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: I am very hungry.
Sent 2: I look for my mother.
Sent 3: When is dinner?
Sent 4: I ask.
Sent 5: Dinner is at six, my mother says.
Sent 6: What can we eat?
Sent 7: I ask.
Sent 8: We can pick food from our garden, she says.
Sent 9: I help her pick corn, beans, and peas.
Sent 10: The corn is yellow and white.
Sent 11: The beans are small and brown.
Sent 12: The peas are green and round.
Sent 13: I put the beans in a basket.
Sent 14: I put the peas in a bowl.
Sent 15: Mother brings the corn.
Sent 16: We go inside.
Sent 17: I have dirty hands.
Sent 18: I wash my hands with soap and water.
Sent 19: The water is warm.
Sent 20: My hands are now clean.
Sent 21: Mother lets me stir the beans.
Sent 22: I fill a pot with water.
Sent 23: Mother puts the corn into the pot.
Sent 24: She puts the pot on the stove.
Sent 25: The water boils.
Sent 26: Mary is my sister.
Sent 27: Mary puts four plates on the table.
Sent 28: Each plate is blue.
Sent 29: We each eat two pieces of meat.
Sent 30: I eat more corn than Mary.
Sent 31: Mary eats more beans than our mother.
Sent 32: What did you learn today?
Sent 33: Mary asks.
Sent 34: I can spell ten new words, I say.
Sent 35: Mary can only spell two words.
Question: Why do I wash my hands? (A) To pick the beans (B) To put the peas in the bowl (C) To learn something (D) To pick food from the garden (E) Because they are dirty (F) To clean my hands (G) To cool my warm hands (H) To eat (I) I wash my hands because they are dirty.
[A]: | F, I.
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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: The one person who, by his interference, could have settled all doubts was debarred by circumstances from interfering in the matter.
Sent 2: Wykham Delandre had quarrelled with his sister--or perhaps it was that she had quarrelled with him--and they were on terms not merely of armed neutrality but of bitter hatred.
Sent 3: The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock.
Sent 4: She and Wykham had almost come to blows.
Sent 5: There had certainly been threats on one side and on the other; and in the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house.
Sent 6: She had risen straightway, and, without waiting to pack up even her own personal belongings, had walked out of the house.
Sent 7: On the threshold she had paused for a moment to hurl a bitter threat at Wykham that he would rue in shame and despair to the last hour of his life his act of that day.
Sent 8: Some weeks had since passed; and it was understood in the neighbourhood that Margaret had gone to London, when she suddenly appeared driving out with Geoffrey Brent, and the entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock.
Sent 9: It was no subject of surprise that Brent had come back unexpectedly, for such was his usual custom.
Sent 10: Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming.
Sent 11: This was his usual method of appearing after a long absence.
Question: Who owns The Rock? (A) Wykham Delandre (B) Geoffrey Brent.
Student: | B. | 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.
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: 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: What are ocean basins? (A) They extend from the ocean basins (B) Landmass (C) They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches (D) They extend from the ocean floor to the surface (E) Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents, include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches (F) Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents (G) Earths surface.
A: | C, E, F. | 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.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Shelly wanted a puppy.
Sent 2: She asked her mommy and daddy every day for one.
Sent 3: She told them that she would help take care of the puppy, if she could have one.
Sent 4: Her mommy and daddy talked it over and said that they would get Shelly a new puppy.
Sent 5: Her mommy took her to the dog pound so that she could choose one that she wanted.
Sent 6: All the puppies at the dog pound need a loving home.
Sent 7: Shelly went to every cage and looked each puppy in the eyes and talked to each one.
Sent 8: After each one, she told her mommy, "No, this isn't the one for me."Sent 9: Finally, she saw a black and white spotted one that she fell in love with.
Sent 10: She screamed, "Mommy, this is the one!"Sent 11: Her mommy asked the worker to take the puppy out so that Shelly could make sure.
Sent 12: Shelly and the puppy fell in love with each other right away.
Sent 13: Shelly and her mommy took the black and white spotted puppy home with them.
Sent 14: Shelly was so excited that she talked all the way home.
Sent 15: After thinking hard, Shelly had a name for her new puppy, Spot.
Sent 16: Now, Shelly has a new best friend and they play together every day when Shelly gets home from school.
Question: How did Shelly decide which puppy was the right one for her? (A) The dog told shelly (B) Looked at each puppy in the eyes and told her mom if it was the right one or not (C) Shelly went to every cage and looked each puppy in the eyes and talked to the spot dog.
Output: C.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.
Question: When did Atta join a working group? What was the outcome of the joining? (A) 1997 (B) 1996, became leader (C) Poor performance as bridge between Muslims and Christians (D) 1995 (E) 1997, became decision maker (F) In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians. Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality (G) Excelled as bridge between Muslims and Christians.
Output: A, C, E, F.
Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, "Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists."Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything," given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan."Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden."Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two."Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.
Question: What day and time of year did the United States try to convince Pakistan to cooperate with them to influence the Taliban? (A) "In early 2000" specifically "January 2000" (B) March 2000 (C) January 2000 (D) March 25, 2000 (E) Early in 2000. in : In January 2000,.
| Output: A, C, E.
| 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: The Romans: Legend says Rome was founded by Romulus, sired with twin brother Remus by Mars of a Vestal Virgin and abandoned on the Palatine Hill to be suckled by a she-wolf.
Sent 2: Historians agree with the mythmakers that the site and traditional founding date of 753 b.c.
Sent 3: are just about right.
Sent 4: Under Etruscan domination, Rome had been a monarchy until a revolt in 510 b.c.
Sent 5: established a patrician republic, which lasted five centuries.
Sent 6: In contrast to other Italian cities weakened by internal rivalries and unstable government, Rome drew strength from a solid aristocracy of consuls and senate ruling over plebeians proud of their Roman citizenship and only rarely rebellious.
Sent 7: Recovering quickly from the Gallic invasion of 390 b.c.
Sent 8: , the Romans took effective control of the peninsula by a military conquest reinforced by a network of roads with names that exist to this day: Via Appia, Flaminia, Aurelia.
Sent 9: All roads did indeed lead to — and from — Rome.
Sent 10: By 250 b.c.
Sent 11: , the city's population had grown to an impressive 100,000.
Sent 12: Roman power extended throughout the Mediterranean with a victory in the Punic Wars against Carthage (now Tunisia) and conquests in Macedonia, Asia Minor, Spain, and southern France.
Sent 13: The rest of Italy participated only by tax contributions to the war effort and minor involvement in commerce and colonization.
Sent 14: Resentment surfaced when former Etruscan or Greek cities such as Capua, Syracuse, and Taranto supported Hannibal's invasion in 218 b.c.
Sent 15: Rome followed up defeat of the Carthaginians with large-scale massacres and enslavement of their Italian supporters.
Sent 16: The Third and final Punic War ended in 149 b.c.
Sent 17: , though national solidarity was still a long way off.
Sent 18: Under Julius Caesar, elected in 59 b.c.
Question: In what year had the Roman population grown to 100,000 individuals? (A) 149 b.c (B) After 250 b.c (C) 250 B.C (D) 200 B.C (E) By 250 b.c.
Ex Output:
C, E.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.
Question: When did Atta join a working group? What was the outcome of the joining? (A) 1997 (B) 1996, became leader (C) Poor performance as bridge between Muslims and Christians (D) 1995 (E) 1997, became decision maker (F) In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians. Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality (G) Excelled as bridge between Muslims and Christians.
Ex Output:
A, C, E, F.
Ex Input:
Paragraph- Sent 1: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont.
Sent 2: De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America.
Sent 3: It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840.
Sent 4: English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans.
Sent 5: and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9.
Sent 6: L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 7: It is Tocqueville's second most famous work.
Sent 8: Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848.
Sent 9: He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.
Sent 10: Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol.
Sent 11: V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville.
Sent 12: L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society?
Sent 13: (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee.
Sent 14: Inspired by a trip to England.
Sent 15: One of Tocqueville's more obscure works.
Sent 16: Journeys to England and Ireland 1835.
Question: Who kept a private journal of the Revolution of 1848 that was posthumously published by the author's wife and friend? (A) Tocqueville (B) Gustave de Beaumont (C) Alexis de Tocqueville.
Ex Output:
| A, C.
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Part 1. 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.
Part 2. 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.
Answer: D.
Explanation: Obama was born in 1961. His mother was born in 1942 and 1961-1942=19. Therefore, "almost twenty" answers the question sufficiently.
Part 3. Exercise
Paragraph- Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said "we have some planes."Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a "nationwide ground stop."Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers "observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.
Question: Which commandments went searching for American 77 (A) Dulles (B) Indianapolis Center (C) Boston Center (D) Indianapolis (E) Herndon Command Center.
Answer: | B, D, E. | 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.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and "think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending."Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, "Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place."Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.
Question: How did the flight attendants keep the passengers calm while they were reporting the hijacking to the ground operations? (A) Telling people to prepare for a takeover (B) They told passengers they had a medical emergency on board and had other flight attendants take care of passengers while they reporting the events to officials (C) That there was a routine medical emergency in first class (D) The passengers were not calm (E) They were told there was a medical emergency (F) By providing alcohol.
Answer: B, C, E.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: In October 1933 Einstein returned to the U.S. and took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton, New Jersey), noted for having become a refuge for scientists fleeing Nazi Germany.
Sent 2: At the time, most American universities, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, had minimal or no Jewish faculty or students, as a result of their Jewish quota which lasted until the late 1940s.
Sent 3: Einstein was still undecided on his future.
Sent 4: He had offers from several European universities, including Oxford where he stayed for three short periods between May 1931 and June 1933, however in 1935 he arrived at the decision to remain permanently in the United States and apply for citizenship.
Sent 5: Einstein's affiliation with the Institute for Advanced Study would last until his death in 1955.
Sent 6: He was one of the four first selected (two of the others being John von Neumann and Kurt Godel) at the new Institute, where he soon developed a close friendship with Godel.
Sent 7: The two would take long walks together discussing their work.
Sent 8: Bruria Kaufman, his assistant, later became a physicist.
Sent 9: During this period, Einstein tried to develop a unified field theory and to refute the accepted interpretation of quantum physics, both unsuccessfully.
Question: How many years was Einstein affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study? (A) Over 20 years (B) 22 years (C) 20 years (D) 2 years.
Answer: B, C.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having!
Sent 2: All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger.
Sent 3: The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.
Sent 4: It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there.
Sent 5: In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor.
Sent 6: Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths.
Sent 7: Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence.
Sent 8: When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.
Question: What had Pudd'nhead Wilson assured his success in? (A) The robber raid (B) The mayor elections (C) The grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's (D) The duel (E) His run for Mayoralty.
Answer: | B, E.
| 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.
Paragraph- Sent 1: During this time, Alexander adopted some elements of Persian dress and customs at his court, notably the custom of proskynesis, either a symbolic kissing of the hand, or prostration on the ground, that Persians showed to their social superiors.
Sent 2: The Greeks regarded the gesture as the province of deities and believed that Alexander meant to deify himself by requiring it.
Sent 3: This cost him the sympathies of many of his countrymen, and he eventually abandoned it.
Sent 4: A plot against his life was revealed, and one of his officers, Philotas, was executed for failing to alert Alexander.
Sent 5: The death of the son necessitated the death of the father, and thus Parmenion, who had been charged with guarding the treasury at Ecbatana, was assassinated at Alexander's command, to prevent attempts at vengeance.
Sent 6: Most infamously, Alexander personally killed the man who had saved his life at Granicus, Cleitus the Black, during a violent drunken altercation at Maracanda (modern day Samarkand in Uzbekistan), in which Cleitus accused Alexander of several judgemental mistakes and most especially, of having forgotten the Macedonian ways in favour of a corrupt oriental lifestyle.
Sent 7: Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages.
Sent 8: His official historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, was implicated in the plot; however, historians have yet to reach a consensus regarding this involvement.
Sent 9: Callisthenes had fallen out of favor by leading the opposition to the attempt to introduce proskynesis.
Question: What specific gesture implemented by Alexander did the Greeks take issue with because they believed Alex meant to deify himself? (A) Prostration on the ground (B) Adopted elements of Persian dress and customs (C) Symbolic kissing of the hand (D) The custom of proskynesis, or a symbolic kissing of the hand.
A, C, D.
Paragraph- Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: "It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance," says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. "There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now," he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm "They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow," he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods » "It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution," says Allen.
Question: What actions are a group of residents performing in an effort to connect African Americans with the earth? (A) Urban farming (B) They are forming a food bank to provide fruits and vegetables to the needy (C) Urban Farming (D) Setting up volunteering (E) They are cultivating the land through urban gardening.
A, C, E.
Paragraph- Sent 1: The family across the street has a cat.
Sent 2: He is a cute black kitty named Dillon.
Sent 3: The cat is about two years old, and the family has had him for about a year.
Sent 4: He is an indoor cat who is not allowed to go outside.
Sent 5: The children like to play with Dillon because he still acts like a kitten.
Sent 6: Dillon jumps around, and chases flies, beetles and spiders.
Sent 7: When he plays with the children, he sometimes uses his paws to attack them, but he doesn't try to hurt them with his claws.
Sent 8: Dillon is a great cat but he has one problem: he likes to eat bread.
Sent 9: The family only feeds him cat food, never human food like steak or potatoes.
Sent 10: But the cat likes the smell of bread so much that he tries to find it everywhere he can.
Sent 11: Dillon jumps up on the kitchen table when a sandwich is there, and tries to carry it away.
Sent 12: He finds loaves of bread from the store on the floor and claws through the wrappers.
Sent 13: The cat climbs into the bread cupboard looking for hot dog and hamburger buns.
Sent 14: The family tries to make Dillon stop getting into the bread by spraying him with water when he goes after bread.
Sent 15: They yell at him when he walks on the table.
Sent 16: But Dillon does not listen.
Sent 17: The kitty keeps trying to find bread to eat.
Sent 18: The family thinks that the man who took care of Dillon when he was a very young kitten must have been a baker or cook, and that's why Dillon likes the smell and taste of bread so much!.
Question: Does Dillon like to chase insects inside? (A) No (B) Yes (C) Yes, Dillon likes to chase insects inside.
| B.
| 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.
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: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, "All employees must don protective gear before coming in."Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. "I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place," says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.
Question: What are some memories Legal Aid's workers recall about the old office? (A) Emotions and spirits (B) The faded and scratched walls (C) Rugs (D) 65 displaced workers (E) The wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits (F) The old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Answer: | A, C, E, F. | 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.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: We waited for half an hour, watching the smoke curling over the house, and then, judging that the Indians had made off for fear of being ambushed, we crossed the clearing.
Sent 2: It took but a glance to read the story.
Sent 3: The women had been washing by the little brook before the cabin, with the children playing about them, when the Indians had come up and with a single volley killed them all except the child we had heard crying.
Sent 4: They had swooped down upon their victims, torn the scalps from their heads, looted the house, and set fire to it.
Sent 5: We dragged out the body of the woman which had been thrown within, in the hope that a spark of life might yet remain, but she was quite dead.
Sent 6: Beneath the warrior Spiltdorph had shot we found the child.
Sent 7: It was a boy of some six or seven years, and so covered with blood that it seemed it must be dead.
Sent 8: But we stripped it and washed it in the brook, and found no wounds upon it except in the head, where it had been struck with a hatchet before its scalp had been stripped off.
Sent 9: The cold water brought it back to life and it began to cry again, whereat Spiltdorph took off his coat and wrapped it tenderly about it.
Question: Who set fire to and looted the house. (A) Aliens (B) The Indians (C) Indians.
Answer: B, C.
Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- Argentina's star-studded line-up began their World Cup campaign with a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in their Group B opener in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Sent 2: A goal from defender Gabriel Heinze after six minutes was all that separated the two teams after an inspired display from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Sent 3: But South Korea ended the day on top of the group following a 2-0 victory over Greece in Port Elizabeth earlier on Saturday.
Sent 4: Goals from Lee Jung-Soo and Park Ji-Sung gave the 2002 semifinalists a comfortable win over the 2008 European cvhampions.
Sent 5: Argentina 1-0 Nigeria Enyeama could do little to stop Heinze's powerful early header from a Juan Sebastian Veron corner, but he kept his team alive with a string of acrobatic saves to deny World Player of the Year Lionel Messi.
Sent 6: Diego Maradona was delighted to secure his first victory as a World Cup coach, but critical of his strikers for failing to make the game safe.
Sent 7: "When you don't kill things off in front of goal you can pay a heavy price.
Sent 8: They almost got a draw -- we missed loads of chances," Maradona told AFP.
Sent 9: "Players such as Leo Messi and Higuain knocked in around 60 goals last season between them, yet today it was almost as if they couldn't set their sights on goal.
Sent 10: "But the win means we can be calm -- we are in the right track.".
Question: Who are the players on the Argentina's soccer team? (A) Diego Maradona (B) Gabriel Heinze (C) Lee Jung-Soo, Park Ji-Sung (D) Juan Sebastian Veron (E) Lionel Messi (F) Nigeria Enyeama.
Answer: A, B, D, E.
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: How many people besides Mr. Petit were held hostage? (A) 4 (B) Four others (C) 500 workers (D) Seven (E) Four other people were held hostage (F) Nicolas Polutnik, the head of operations; two other executives; and Petit's personal assistant (G) 7 (H) Only Nicolas Polutnik.
Answer: | A, B, E, F.
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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.
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.
A.
Paragraph- Sent 1: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence.
Sent 2: I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the "charny" is a Martial equivalent.
Sent 3: No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.
Sent 4: But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Sent 5: But as with the luxury of intoxication in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other.
Sent 6: A lady discovered in the use of "charny" is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently conscious of her fault.
Question: How does she feel about taking the drug? (A) Good (B) Guilty (C) Bad (D) Distressed, penitent and disgraced (E) Happy.
B, D.
Paragraph- Sent 1: { { Plot } } Tom plays pool in a deserted pool hall , pocketing two balls by lowdown means and then wakes Jerry up by shooting the 10-ball into the pocket where he is sleeping .
Sent 2: Jerry awakes just in time to avoid the 10-ball and is carried out to the ball return , where the 10 and the 13 smash the mouse between each other .
Sent 3: Jerry is mad and walks up through the pocket , first sees nothing , but after a few steps back to the pocket , he spots Tom perched behind it .
Sent 4: Jerry tries to jump into another corner pocket , but Tom aims a cue ball with so much force that it roll's into the pocket , and spins back out of it and it rolls Jerry backwards to Tom , who has made a ramp with his cue stick for the mouse to slide up .
Sent 5: Jerry stops at the top of the stick and is then blown down by Tom , who then shoots a stream of balls to make the mouse flat .
Sent 6: The whole train rebounds back towards the cat and the balls stack up at Tom's end of the table .
Sent 7: Tom shoots all the balls in succession with his cue , and then tries to shoot Jerry , but the mouse hangs onto the cue tip .
Sent 8: The cat , as if he were saying `` Have it your way '' , chalks up and shoots the 8-ball using Jerry .
Sent 9: The mouse drops off the cue tip and then is upended by the 8-ball rolling in circles , and Tom forces Jerry to jump through the ball rack as if he were a circus performer .
Sent 10: Tom then sets it on fire to add an additional level of torment , and when Jerry accomplishes this with poise , Tom discards the flaming rack and shoots the 8-ball across the table and back .
Question: Who shoots the 10-ball Which Jerry avoids just in time? (A) Jerry (B) Tom.
| B.
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