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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
If you plan to record telephone calls or in-person conversations (including by recording video that captures sound), you should be aware that there are federal and state wiretapping laws that may limit your ability to do so. These laws not only expose you to the risk of criminal prosecution, but also potentially give an injured party a civil claim for money damages against you.
From a legal standpoint, the most important question in the recording context is whether you must get consent from one or all of the parties to a phone call or conversation before recording it. Federal law and many state wiretapping statutes permit recording if one party (including you) to the phone call or conversation consents. Other states require that all parties to the communication consent.
Unfortunately, it is not always easy to tell which law applies to a communication, especially a phone call. For example, if you and the person you are recording are in different states, then it is difficult to say in advance whether federal or state law applies, and if state law applies which of the two (or more) relevant state laws will control the situation. Therefore, if you record a phone call with participants in more than one state, it is best to play it safe and get the consent of all parties. However, when you and the person you are recording are both located in the same state, then you can rely with greater certainty on the law of that state. In some states, this will mean that you can record with the consent of one party to the communication. In others, you will still need to get everyone's consent. For details on the wiretapping laws in the fifteen most populous U.S. states and the District of Columbia, see the State Law: Recording section. In any event, it never hurts to play it safe and get the consent of all parties to a phone call or conversation that you intend to record.
Who must give permission to record a telephone or in-person conversation?
Federal law permits recording telephone calls and in-person conversations with the consent of at least one of the parties. See 18 U.S.C. 2511(2)(d). This is called a "one-party consent" law. Under a one-party consent law, you can record a phone call or conversation so long as you are a party to the conversation. Furthermore, if you are not a party to the conversation, a "one-party consent" law will allow you to record the conversation or phone call so long as your source consents and has full knowledge that the communication will be recorded.
In addition to federal law, thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have adopted "one-party consent" laws and permit individuals to record phone calls and conversations to which they are a party or when one party to the communication consents. See the State Law: Recording section of this legal guide for information on state wiretapping laws.
When must you get permission from everyone involved before recording?
Eleven states require the consent of every party to a phone call or conversation in order to make the recording lawful. These "two-party consent" laws have been adopted in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington. (Notes: (1) Illinois' two-party consent statute was held unconstitutional in 2014; (2) Hawai'i is in general a one-party state, but requires two-party consent if the recording device is installed in a private place; (3) Massachusetts bans "secret" recordings rather than requiring explicit consent from all parties.). Although they are referred to as "two-party consent" laws, consent must be obtained from every party to a phone call or conversation if it involves more than two people. In some of these states, it might be enough if all parties to the call or conversation know that you are recording and proceed with the communication anyway, even if they do not voice explicit consent. See the State Law: Recording section of this legal guide for information on specific states' wiretapping laws.
Can you record a phone call or conversation when you do not have consent from one of the parties?
Regardless of whether state or federal law governs the situation, it is almost always illegal to record a phone call or private conversation to which you are not a party, do not have consent from at least one party, and could not naturally overhear. In addition, federal and many state laws do not permit you to surreptitiously place a bug or recording device on a person or telephone, in a home, office or restaurant to secretly record a conversation between two people who have not consented.
Federal law and most state statutes also make disclosing the contents of an illegally intercepted telephone call illegal. See the section on Risks Associated with Publication in this guide for more information.
What if you are recording the activities of the police or other government officials in public?
Special considerations apply when recording police officers or other public officials. You may have a constitutional right to openly record the activities of police and other officials in public, so long as you do not interfere with those activities or violate generally applicable laws. For more information, see the section on Recording Police Officers and Public Officials. ||||| LOS ANGELES, July 15 (UPI) -- A Los Angles blogger recorded her conversation with a telemarketer who launched into a bizarre tirade upon being informed he was being recorded.
Jessica Gottlieb, who posted the recording to her YouTube account, said the telemarketer identified himself as "Mark" from the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles and he became incensed after she told him he was being recorded.
"It's illegal to record somebody unless you tell them previously, unless they're committing a felony," the caller said.
Mark said he did not believe he was being recorded and offered Gottlieb $100 if she could play back any of the conversation. He likened the money to "like a tip at a strip club."
"You're trying to deceive me and now you think you've got some mind control thing going on, when you don't. I am in charge. I am always in charge, and I will always be in charge. No one pulls the wool over my eyes," the caller said.
The telemarketer, still not believing he was being recorded, asked if Gottlieb was planning to put her recording "on YouTube."
"Yeah, I kinda was planning on it," Gottlieb replied.
"No, you weren't. You just made that up and you're not funny," Mark said.
The call only became more bizarre as it continued.
"You're struggling for something to do now that you're caught in the spider's web," Mark said, following up with a quote from Walter Scott: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!"
The caller eventually hung up after a suitably bizarre sign-off: "You've managed to stump our panel, ma'am, we're gonna go and flip the rest of the cards over and tell you what our contestant does for a living." ||||| | If you ever get a call from a telemarketer named Mark from Chatsworth, you should a) probably not tell him you're recording your conversation, and b) maybe just hang up altogether. Unless you want pure YouTube gold, which is what happened when Los Angeles blogger Jessica Gottlieb reveals to him that she's taping their back-and-forth, UPI reports. Mark is not happy by this revelation, telling Gottlieb that "you've gotten us off on the wrong foot, ma'am" and informing her that "it's illegal to record somebody unless you tell them previously, unless they're committing a felony" (which he appears to be only partially right about). The rest of the four-minute conversation veers into bizarro world, with Mark taunting Gottlieb by telling her he doesn't believe she's really recording him—he offers her $100 to play back any of their chat, "like a tip at a strip club"—and asking her if she's planning to post the call online. "You're trying to deceive me and now you think you've got some mind control thing going on, when you don't," he goes on. "I am in charge. I am always in charge, and I will always be in charge. No one pulls the wool over my eyes." |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Example: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild. (A) Tian Tian (B) UK (C) Edinburgh Zoo (D) Sweetie (E) Yang Guang (F) China
Example solution: (F)
Example explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Problem: PARIS, France (CNN) -- Opposition lawmakers Tuesday ridiculed President Nicolas Sarkozy for taking France back into NATO's military command after more than 40 years, but were unable to stop the move when it came to a vote. French troops on patrol with the Afghan army as part of the NATO mission in Afghanistan. The National Assembly voted in favor of Sarkozy's plan, 329-238. Socialist Laurent Fabius, a former prime minister, told Prime Minister Francois Fillon: "You tell us this would mean more independence and more influence. It would probably mean less independence and less influence." The move did not technically require parliamentary approval, but the president's party scheduled the debate to give opponents a chance to voice their opinions -- and to show a majority backed it.French National Assembly backs president's plan to rejoin NATOPresident Nicolas Sarkozy's plan is politically sensitiveFrance was a founding member of NATO but left in 1966President Charles de Gaulle said in 1966 membership meant losing independence
Questions:Opponents of Sarkozy's move -- who include some members of his party -- believe _, not Sarkozy, had it right. (A) PARIS (B) France (C) CNN (D) Nicolas Sarkozy (E) NATO (F) French (G) Afghan (H) Afghanistan (I) National Assembly (J) Sarkozy (K) Laurent Fabius (L) Francois Fillon (M) French National Assembly (N) Charles de Gaulle
| Solution: (N) |
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Barbro Martinsson (born 16 August 1935) is a former Swedish cross country skier who competed during the 1960s. Born in Valbo, she won two silver medals in the 3 x 5 km at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics. Martinsson finished 4th in the 1968 Winter Olympics in both 5 km and 10 km.
Sentence: Barbro Martinnson was born on August 16 1945 and is a former Swedish cross country skier.
Output: No
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
David Tench Tonight was a short-lived television talk show created for Network Ten in Australia. The series featured David Tench, an animated fictional character, as host. The name "Tench" is a partial anagram created from the name Channel Ten. The actor behind the digital Tench was Australian actor Drew Forsythe.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: drew hated that in the street people called him tench
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: Excalibur is the ninth studio album by Grave Digger and is the final album of the "Middle Ages Trilogy". It tells about the story of King Arthur and the knights of the round table. The line-up for the backing vocals to this album included Piet Sielck, Hansi Kürsch, Hacky Hackmann + Boltendahl. Excalibur is the fifth studio album by Grave Digger album OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
Problem: Club Deportivo Utiel is a football team based in Utiel in the autonomous community of Valencian Community. Founded in 1945, the team plays in Tercera División – Group 6. The club's home ground is "La Celadilla", which has a capacity of 1,500 spectators.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Club Deportivo Utiel was founded in the 50's."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: Gene Autry never wrote a single song.
"Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)" is a Christmas song originally written and performed by Gene Autry, with music composed by Oakley Haldeman. Autry's original version was a top-10 hit on the pop and country charts; the song would go on to be covered many times in the subsequent decades.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: "Boat on the River" singers are from America, however . the song was unpopular in the country of nationality
"Boat on the River" is a 1979 song by Styx, from their album "Cornerstone". It was released as a single in 1980, but did not chart in the band's native United States. However, it was popular in several German-speaking countries, becoming a top-five hit on the German, Austrian and Swiss charts (reaching number one on the latter.)
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
. a young man wearing blue jeans and a blue and white plaid long sleeved button up shirt
OPTIONS:
- is doing tap dance on an stage.
- stands in front of a row of wooden platforms in an exercise room.
- blows the leaves from a bush that he is trimming on a long wooden trimmed lawn.
- is sitting on the ground with his legs wide opened on a board that has numbers on it in a triangular shape..
Next sentence: is sitting on the ground with his legs wide opened on a board that has numbers on it in a triangular shape.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A woman trying to instruct big bang theory's way of playing rock paper scissors lizard spock. it
OPTIONS:
- suddenly splits into two parts each the other.
- rises up and down over a bar.
- shows a man making a masturbation attempt by cupping his scrotum.
- shows a quick clip of sheldon from big bang theory actually doing it..
Next sentence: shows a quick clip of sheldon from big bang theory actually doing it.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to make nigerian afang soup
Soak the okazi leaves for several minutes.
Place 5 cups (500 g) of dried okazi leaves in a large bowl. Cover them with hot water, and allow them to soak for at least 10 minutes to soften them a bit.
OPTIONS:
- They should also have loosened pieces of leaf on the bottom. This will help them stay stable while you make the soup.
- Also known as afang leaves, okazi leaves are a dark green, leafy vegetable with a slight bitter taste that are usually found in africa, asia, and south american. You can usually purchase dried okazi leaves in african grocery stores or from online retailers.
- Add the chillicue onion, onion, and water to the water. When the water has steeped for several minutes, turn the water to medium-high and increase the temperature to high.
- You can use rubber stocking instead of a steamer. Place the water in a sieve to extract as much of the water as possible..
Next sentence: Also known as afang leaves, okazi leaves are a dark green, leafy vegetable with a slight bitter taste that are usually found in africa, asia, and south american. You can usually purchase dried okazi leaves in african grocery stores or from online retailers.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
Two very large sumos are in an elevated circle doing leg warm ups and squatting while another man in the middle dressed in japanese garb referees. the referee
OPTIONS:
- is talking to the whole crowd while the sumo guys continue to do flips from right to left on their backs making practices around each other.
- lets them know when to start and the sumos wrestle while the referee walks around the ring and monitors them.
- shakes hands with the sumo on the floor and tilts to the side, but do not fall.
- holds the rope, and the seated sumo chugs it..
Next sentence: | lets them know when to start and the sumos wrestle while the referee walks around the ring and monitors them. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Diamond Dawgs in town for the MSU World Series. A weekend of relaxed practicing, scrimmaging and home run derby fun. MSU head coach Andy Cannizaro spoke about the 2017-2018 team. "It's going to be a really interesting group this year. We have several talented young guys," Andy Cannizaro said. "Justin Foscue and Jordan Westburg had outstanding falls for us this year. Tanner Allen had a really nice fall as well as Josh Hatcher." Copyright 2017 MSNewsNow. All rights reserved.
Hypothesis: The head coach has nice things to say about some of the players.
Possible answers:
(A). Yes
(B). It's impossible to say
(C). No | (A). |
Until recently, I hadn't done much community service.In face, I did nothing to benefit anyone but myself.My selfishness and laziness were clear before I received an assignment from my teacher.Each student was required to complete 10 hours community service.To me, 10 hours was a huge amount of time to spend helping others.Volunterring, for me, has been a truly life - changing experience. My mom suggested that I organize a food drive in our development and donate what I collected to a local shelter.Anything that would help finish the project seemed like a good idea, so I agreed.I made up flyers asking for donations and placed flyers at every house in my neighborhood. I was getting ready to fetch the cans from my neighbor's yards on the day of the food drive when all of a sudden it started to pour.Rain flooded the roads and wind blew hard, but I was determined to complete my task.My mom drove me around our development and I jumped out at every house to collect items people had put out. When we finally arrived the shelter, I was a little nervous because I had never been there before.The woman in charge was extremely grateful for the donations and said that the world would be ganizing the food drive and delighted that my service to the community would make a difference in people's lives. As I was leaving the shelter, a man asked if I was the one who had brought all the food.I shyly nodded, and he said, "A round here, you are a hero." From that point on, I made myself a promise that I would serve the community more often, even when it was not required.Through this school assignment, I have realized that caring for others is an important part of living and the world would be a completely different place if people all help those who are less fortunate. The author decided to serve the community more often because _ . A) he was treated as a big hero by his neighbors B) he received gratitude from the woman in the shelter C) he found what he did had an effect on people's lives D) he found the people in the shelter were warm - hearted
C
(Question)
Traveling should be easy and enjoyable, and one of the ways to make sure your trip remains fun is to know exactly how to keep your valuables safe. If you are traveling alone, distribute your money through your luggage. Place most of it in your main suitcase or bag. Make a rough estimate of how much money you will spend on the journey, till you reach your destination. Place this money in a different wallet and carry this in your pocket. Spend from this pocket till you get to your destination. If you are travelling with someone, distribute the money among yourselves. Instead of wearing your jewels, you can put your jewels at the bottom of your suitcase or bag. DO NOT carry in your purse, just in case it is stolen; or in case you misplace your purse. In addition, if you are going to be frequently opening your purse for things like tickets and phone numbers, what if you accidently just drop them. Have you ever seen a mini backpack purse? It looks really fashionable and is very smart. Plus, It's really convenient to use. The best thing to do is to hang the mini backpack purse in the front, like a baby carrier. There are two big advantages to do this; one, your hands remain free to carry your luggage and other things; and two, your purse is always monitored, and is just under your nose! Credit cards are very useful in many ways. But if you misplace your credit card, it is quite easy for someone else to find it and use it to his/ her maximum benefit before you even realize you have lost it! If you lose cash, you lose only that much cash as you are carrying. But a lost credit card means the money in your bank account is lost. So always try to use cash instead of credit card while traveling Carrying a mini backpack can help you because A) it is convenient to carry and monitor. B) it is easier to carry your baby. C) it reduce the burden on your back. D) it can use to carry more things.
(Answer)
A
Ques: New research finds a link between poverty and poor decision making. The findings may explain why poor people sometimes make bad choices that continue their hardship. Earlier studies have found the poor less likely to escape poverty. But there has been little research on why the poor make decisions that make their lives harder. Until recently, it was economists who studied poverty, not psychologists. Eldar Shafir, a psychologist in Princeton University says now scientists from both fields work together. Mr. Shafir and his team did two experiments. One took place at a shopping center in New Jersey. Another was carried out among sugar cane farmers in rural India. The New Jersey experiment involved individuals with low paying jobs and others belonged to the middle class. All the volunteers were asked what they would do if their cars needed repairs. The volunteers were given two imaginary situations. In the first, the car repairs cost $ 150. In the second, $ 1,500. "And what we found is that the poor and the rich performed equally well on almost all the tests. " Not so when the researchers raised the repair costs to $ 1,500. "Now the poor performed significantly worse. " The poorer lost about 13 IQ points on average. This is about the loss experienced when a person has not slept for one night. The scientists then wondered if the same person reacted differently when he was rich and when he was poor. The Indian sugar cane farmers earn most of their money once a year, when the harvest comes in. But the money often does not last through the year. "So they find themselves basically rich after the harvest when the income comes in and poor just before the harvest. The researchers gave them tests similar to the ones taken by the people in New Jersey. They tested the Indian farmers before the harvest and after. And the results were much the same as with the mall shoppers. "They performed much more slowly and with many more mistakes when they were poorer than when... The Indian sugar cane farmers_( ) A) are smarter when they are poor B) earn money all through the year C) earn lots of money so they think they are rich D) feel rich after the harvest and poor before harvest
Ans: D
In the face of rising gas costs, many consumers are beginning to consider the choice of a hybrid vehicle--one which operates on both gas and electricity. All of the models of hybrid car will save money, but are they really effective when all of the costs of maintenance and other considerations are included in? First of all, consider the cost of buying a hybrid vehicle. Depending on the model, hybrid vehicles can cost anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 more than the traditional models. However, some say that as the hybrid cars become increasingly more available as a reflection of demand, the prices can be expected to drop, making them more cost effective when it comes to the initial investment. Also important to keep in mind is the fact that the hybrid cars have a much more specialized system than the standard vehicle, and will therefore require more specialized workers to repair them when they break down. It seems as though, at least for the time being, the purchase of a hybrid vehicle for the average consumer may not be the best choice when it comes to saving money. It is important to keep several things in mind, however, when considering purchasing a hybrid model. Many consumers are choosing to purchase these cars because they represent a significant development in terms of environmental concerns over standard models. They also mean that as a whole, Western nations will become less dependent on oil as the only means of power. Finally, it is necessary to remember that the hybrid car is a very new technology. Developed only within the last few years, the technology is still in the starting stage, where costs will continue to be high. As time passes, the development of the hybrid technology will begin to push prices down to the point where hybrids are more competitive with the traditionally fueled models of the past. What do we know from the passage? A) The hybrid technology is very new and mature as well. B) It's not easy to repair a hybrid car due to its special system. C) Many average consumers can not afford to buy hybrid cars. D) The traditional vehicles are much safer to drive than hybrid cars.
| B |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: (CNN) -- Declaring 2010 "The best year in safety performance in our company's history," Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That includes a $200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from $900,000 to $1.1 million, according to the SEC report. Newman's bonus was $374,062, the report states. Newman also has a $5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing. The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's "performance under safety," the Transocean filing states. "Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate," the SEC statement reads. "As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history." The company called that record "a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere," the SEC filing states. The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment. The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing. It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history. The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf. In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing. <sep>Where was the Deepwater Horizon oil rig before the accident?<sep>At the Gulf of Mexico
A: | Yes |
instruction:
In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
question:
Once Upon a Time (season 7) -- The seventh season of the American ABC fantasy-drama Once Upon a Time was ordered on May 11, 2017. It will consist of 22 episodes and will air on Fridays, having premiered on October 6, 2017.
answer:
is once upon a time having a season 7
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Return of the Living Dead (film series) -- The series came about as a dispute between John A. Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached a settlement wherein Romero's sequels would be referred to as the Dead movies, and Russo's sequels would bear the suffix Living Dead. Thus, each man was able to do what he pleased with the series, while still having one another's work distinct and be considered canon. Following this decision, Russo wrote a horror novel, Return of the Living Dead, which he planned on adapting into a film script. Although the film rights were initially sold in 1979, they were passed along by several different studios and directors before finally being obtained by Tobe Hooper, for whom Russo wrote a script. Hooper dropped out of the project, though, and the script never came to fruition.
answer:
is return of the living dead a sequel
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Wheat flour -- In terms of the parts of the grain (the grass fruit) used in flour--the endosperm or protein/starchy part, the germ or protein/fat/vitamin-rich part, and the bran or fiber part--there are three general types of flour. White flour is made from the endosperm only. Brown flour includes some of the grain's germ and bran, while whole grain or wholemeal flour is made from the entire grain, including the bran, endosperm, and germ. Germ flour is made from the endosperm and germ, excluding the bran.
answer:
| is whole wheat flour the same as brown flour
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Q: QNX Software Systems Ltd., a leading provider of real-time software and services to the embedded computing market, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Sachin Lawande to the position of vice president, engineering services.
Sachin Lawande Named VP of Engineering Services at QNX
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: yes
Tom Cruise has returned to The Oprah Winfrey Show and talked about his love for Katie Holmes, but this time he was denying marital problems instead of jumping on the couch to prove his passion for the young actress. "That's laughable to me," Cruise said when Winfrey told him there was speculation that "what you and Katie have is not real". It was the first time Cruise appeared on the show since his couch-hopping stunt three years ago drew a flood of satire and ridicule. "It was something that I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her. That's just how I felt," he said in the interview, which aired on Friday in the US.
Can we say the following?
Tom Cruise is married to Oprah Winfrey.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
no
Question: Termini purchased and developed several buildings and areas including the Ellicott Lofts on Ellicott Street in Buffalo, which opened in 2003, The Oak School Lofts which used to be a Buffalo Alternative School, and 'IS' Lofts on Oak Street in Buffalo. Eva Hassett, Vice President of Savarino Construction, and Karl Frizlen an architect from The Frizlen Group and designer of the hotel commented on the development proposal. Hassett said, "We've been thinking about it and trying to put it together for the last few months, and it was made public a couple of weeks ago."
Termini is the owner of Ellicott Lofts.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer: yes
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front have attacked Merino's home.
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's [FMLN] urban commandos have denied reports that they participated in an attack on vice president-elect Francisco Merino's home.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
no
Creeping trade protectionism, and bloated budget deficits, pose a risk to the United States' long-term economic vitality, Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, warned Friday.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: Federal Reserve boss, Alan Greenspan, sees increased US trade protectionism and budget deficits as threats to the US economy.
yes
Q: George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is the former 41st President of the United States of America. Almost immediately upon his return from the war in December 1944, George Bush married Barbara Pierce.
The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: | yes |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Solution: No
Why? Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
New input: (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. Jurors convicted the seven Wednesday of multiple counts of child exploitation, pornography and obstruction of justice. 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. An indictment filed in the case detailed interactions between group members as they swapped and commented on images. "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. And a posting from Castleman, cited in the indictment, read, "Thanks to all for the wonderful material that has been posted." An Australian constable who infiltrated the group in August 2006 was among 50 witnesses testifying at trial. 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. 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. The seven will be sentenced April 14. 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." "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. 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. <sep>A federal court jury in Florida convicted 7 people on multiple counts of what charges?<sep>Pornography
Solution: | Yes |
Definition: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Input: In Denver, Thomas sees Newt, who has succumbed to the Flare. Newt begs Thomas to end his suffering and kill him. Thomas shoots him in the head as an act of mercy. Then, they discover that Teresa and the other Immunes all had been captured. Thomas and Minho knock out the Immunes' former guards and threaten them to make the guards take them to WICKED also. Thomas and Brenda discover the guards were led by Vince, the leader of the Right Arm. Vince tells them the Right Arm is copying WICKED's operations, and plan to take over their headquarters building.
Output: | did newt die in the death cure book? |
input hypothesis: Zdechlik never taught formally
Context: John Zdechlik ("Zuh-DEK-lik") (born 2 May 1937) is an American composer, music teacher, and conductor. Zdechlik has been elected to the American Bandmasters Association and many of his compositions have become standard concert band repertoire, including Chorale and Shaker Dance and Psalm 46.
true or false: No
input hypothesis: Clint Eastwood dedicated the Palo Alto Art Center to his lovely wife.
Context: Palo Alto Art Center is multi-purpose center for various art-related activities in the city of Palo Alto, California. The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation (PAACF) is the nonprofit that supports the Palo Alto Art Center. The Palo Alto Art Center when it was founded in 1971, was named the Palo Alto Community Cultural Center.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: The film A Promise was based on a novel.
Context: A Promise is a 2013 French drama romance film directed by Patrice Leconte and written by Patrice Leconte and Jérôme Tonnerre. The story is based on Stefan Zweig's novel "Journey into the Past" and stars Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, and Maggie Steed. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
true or false: Yes
input hypothesis: A Doll's House was a play in a Norwegian town in 1879 and was published following it's premier at a theater in Denmark.
Context: A Doll's House (Bokmål: "Et dukkehjem" ; also translated as "A Doll House") is a three-act play written by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879.
true or false: | Yes |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Beginners is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Mills. It tells the story of Oliver, a man reflecting on the life and death of his father, Hal, while trying to forge a new romantic relationship with a woman, Anna, dealing with father issues of her own. The film is based on the true-life coming out of Mills' father at the age of 75, five years before his death.
Hypothesis: It was filmed in multiple countries
Select from the following. 1. Yes; 2. It's impossible to say; 3. No; | 2. |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Baaghi 2 is an upcoming Indian martial arts film directed by Ahmed Khan, written by Sanjeev Datta and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under the banners Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment and Fox Star Studios. The film features Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani in lead roles. It is a sequel to the 2016 film "Baaghi."
Choices:
(I). Yes.
(II). It's impossible to say.
(III). No.
Hypothesis: the sequel "Baaghi." showed more fights than Baaghi 2
| (II). |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
FenceSitter Films is a film production and television production company founded by Kyle Schickner an American film producer, writer, director, actor and a bisexual civil rights activist, devoted to creating entertainment for women, and sexual and ethnic minorities.
Sentence: FenceSitter Films is a production company founded by Kyle Schickner an American film producer, writer, director, actor and singer.
Select from:
(I). Yes
(II). It's impossible to say
(III). No | (II). |
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to bleach wood
Wash your wood thoroughly.
Never apply bleach to dirty wood. Before bleaching your wood, wipe the wood down with water using a soft rag.
OPTIONS:
- Give the wood a thorough scrub to make sure all the dust and dirt is removed. Clean all surfaces after bleaching.
- Pat it dry and shake out any excess water. It's best to leave your wood alone for several hours before you begin bleaching it because washing it away can damage the wood's integrity.
- After washing your wood, hang it somewhere out of the way to avoid leaving it in direct sunlight. Be sure to rinse clean the following day.
- Remove any stuck on dirt or debris carefully and then let the wood sit out to dry. Usually, the wood will need to dry for one to two days before it can be bleached.
A: Remove any stuck on dirt or debris carefully and then let the wood sit out to dry. Usually, the wood will need to dry for one to two days before it can be bleached.
They briefly wrestle while one man gets thrown out of the ring. The winner performs a hand signal with the referee. the loser
OPTIONS:
- picks up the fallen wrestler.
- takes his turn and throws the hammer.
- throws the ball on the ground.
- walks in the back as they show a replay of the win.
walks in the back as they show a replay of the win.
question: Complete the next sentence:
There are several people gathered in an outdoor gymnasium. there
OPTIONS:
- are people standing and seated in the bleachers watching about twelve band students performing.
- are teams playing various sport in darts, tennis, volleyball and lacrosse.
- 's a woman on a silver weight lifting machine and a man on a green background, and now he is talking to a young women sitting on a bench and then they're all watching as she tries to lift the heavy thing.
- 's a dark coach wearing a black hoodie demonstrating karate moves and techniques called tai chi.
answer: are people standing and seated in the bleachers watching about twelve band students performing.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to prevent bad breath
Brush your teeth properly.
Brushing your teeth properly is one of the best things you can do in your fight against bad breath. Brush at least twice a day, for at least two minutes and make sure to cover all the areas in your mouth.
OPTIONS:
- This helps to clean your teeth and prevents bad breath. Before bed, make sure you brush your tongue, which should also be clean.
- Brush until your gums feel soft and clean. Before you start brushing, brush your tongue and teeth to ensure that your teeth are clean and ready for brushing.
- Especially focus on where the teeth meet the gums. Use a soft bristled brush and replace it every three to four months.
- Brushing the gums helps to prevent the buildup of plaque and cholesterol. Brush your teeth for about 20 seconds on a regular basis..
Next sentence: Especially focus on where the teeth meet the gums. Use a soft bristled brush and replace it every three to four months.
context: How to remove paint from concrete
Prepare the concrete surface.
Use a broom or shop vacuum to remove all dirt or debris. If possible, remove any loose paint from concrete with a scraper or brush.
OPTIONS:
- If you have not been listening to sounds, construction noise may be disrupting your cleanup. Even an occasional pitting of paint sometimes distracts people from their projects, allowing you to concentrate on working while waiting for it to be removed.
- Also, if you have allow for removal time (e.g., a few hours), start by making sure the concrete surface is completely dry before you begin. Pouring water on concrete will further loosen the paint.
- If possible, wear a smock when cleaning concrete surface. For example, look for marks, scratches, or holes on concrete that go through beams, fasteners, roofers, and other material.
- Apply a chemical paint stripper to the concrete surface. The type of stripper you should use depends on the type of paint you are trying to remove, such as water-based or oil-based paint.
****
next sentence for the context: Apply a chemical paint stripper to the concrete surface. The type of stripper you should use depends on the type of paint you are trying to remove, such as water-based or oil-based paint.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to read a soccer penalty shot if you're a goalie
Watch the shooter's eyes.
Before a shooter makes his penalty kick, he'll likely size up the situation and decided on a direction in which to take his shot. Watching the shooter's eyes can cue you in to where he plans to kick the soccer ball.
OPTIONS:
- The eyes serve as a guide since the goalie won't be able to accurately gauge which direction the ball will travel. It's also much easier to see a goalie shooting a penalty kick if he's holding a tennis ball in his hand.
- Here's a refresher on how to spot the goalie's eyes : Look at his chest. He usually has one arm in front of him, but you can watch his chest as well.
- If a shooter continually looks at a certain area of the goal, this could be where he intends to kick the ball. A shooter's eye may also give smaller clues.
- Make some notes about how the shooter signals. Studies have shown that while defenders are more prone to eye contact, goalies are more observant of their players.
A: | If a shooter continually looks at a certain area of the goal, this could be where he intends to kick the ball. A shooter's eye may also give smaller clues. |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Residents and visitors look over the covered Ce statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The move to cover the statues is intended... (Associated Press)
Residents and visitors look over the covered Ce statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The move to cover the statues is intended to symbolize the city's mourning for Heather Heyer, killed while protesting a white nationalist... (Associated Press)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on protests against Confederate monuments that have occurred in the aftermath of deadly violence at a Virginia rally by white nationalists (all times local):
11:05 p.m.
Police report a white nationalist who says he pepper-sprayed a demonstrator in self-defense on the campus of the University of Virginia has turned himself in.
Campus police issued a statement late Wednesday saying Christopher Cantwell of Keene, New Hampshire, was taken into custody at the police department in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Cantwell was wanted on three felony charges: two counts of the illegal use of tear gas or other gases and one count of malicious bodily injury with a "caustic substance," explosive or fire.
A brief university police statement says Cantwell was being held at a regional jail in Lynchburg pending transport to Charlottesville. It wasn't immediately known if Cantwell has a lawyer.
Contacted Tuesday by The Associated Press, Cantwell acknowledged he had pepper-sprayed a counter demonstrator during an Aug. 11 protest, a day before a deadly demonstration in Charlottesville. He insisted he was defending himself, saying he did it "because my only other option was knocking out his teeth." He said he looked forward to his day in court.
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7:10 p.m.
Who's responsible for the 135-year-old Confederate monument in front of Florida's Old Capitol? It depends on who you ask.
Amid a national debate over Confederate statues and memorials, state officials are in a disagreement over who is charge of the memorial to local Confederate soldiers that was placed on the Capitol grounds in 1882.
Republican Gov. Rick Scott said this week said that it's up to the Florida Legislature to decide whether or not to remove the monument. The Scott administration maintains that the monument is an exhibit attached to a museum inside the Old Capitol run by the Legislature.
But Katie Betta, a spokeswoman for Senate President Joe Negron, said Wednesday the museum has no ownership papers for the monument and it is not one of the museum's exhibits.
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5 p.m.
The Republican Party of Virginia has apologized for tweeting that Democratic candidate for governor Ralph Northam had "turned his back on his own family's heritage" by supporting the removal of Confederate monuments.
The state GOP party deleted the messages Wednesday and posted an apology, saying the tweets "were interpreted in a way we never intended."
Executive Director John Findlay told the Washington Post that the party felt Northam was betraying his family's legacy because his great-grandfather had fought for the Confederacy.
The tweets were widely panned as offensive. The fate of Confederate monuments has become a prominent issue in Virginia's gubernatorial contest following a deadly white nationalist rally over a Confederate statue in Charlottesville earlier this month.
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3:15 p.m.
Two statues of Confederate generals in Charlottesville have been shrouded with large black tarps.
Workers started covering a monument of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Wednesday afternoon and then moved on to one of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. The statues are in city parks near downtown.
The tarps were secured with tape and ropes with sand anchors.
The city council voted to cover up the statues as a symbol of mourning for the Charlottesville woman who was killed while protesting a white nationalist rally earlier this month.
The rally was sparked by the council's vote earlier this year to remove the Lee statue. That's on hold while a lawsuit plays out.
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1:15 p.m.
Workers in Charlottesville are starting to shroud a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in black as a way of symbolizing the city's mourning for a woman killed after a white nationalist rally earlier this month.
Live video from the scene Wednesday afternoon showed a public works truck near the base of the statue and workers gathered around it with a large black drape. Onlookers took photos and video.
The city council voted early Tuesday morning to drape the Lee statue and another of Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson at another nearby park. The vote came during a chaotic meeting packed with irate residents who screamed and cursed at councilors over the city's response to the rally.
The council meeting was the first since the "Unite the Right" event, which was believed to be the largest gathering of white nationalists in a decade.
Charlottesville resident Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when a car slammed into a crowd protesting the rally. James Alex Fields Jr. has been charged in her death.
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11:05 a.m.
Three people are facing charges after a demonstration against a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina.
Hundreds joined the protest Tuesday night against the bronze Confederate soldier known as "Silent Sam" on the Chapel Hill campus.
A Chapel Hill Police Department report shows 19-year-old Claude Wilson was charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest. The report says the UNC student blocked a police vehicle and then pushed officers away when he was told to move. Wilson didn't immediately return a message seeking comment.
UNC spokesman Randy Young said Kenny Grabarczyk of Graham was charged with possessing a knife on school property, and Gregory Southall Williams of Durham was charged with wearing a mask and resisting arrest. Young said neither is affiliated with the university.
Grabarczyk didn't immediately return a message seeking comment. No phone listing for Williams could be found.
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3:45 a.m.
A white nationalist who says he used pepper spray on a counter demonstrator in self-defense during a protest at the University of Virginia says he will turn himself into authorities.
Campus police say Christopher Cantwell of Keene, New Hampshire, is wanted on three felony charges: two counts of the illegal use of tear gas or other gases and one count of malicious bodily injury with a "caustic substance," explosive or fire.
Contacted Tuesday by The Associated Press, Cantwell acknowledged he had pepper-sprayed a counter demonstrator during a protest but insisted he was defending himself. He says he did it "because my only other option was knocking out his teeth."
Cantwell said he looks forward to his day in court. ||||| Story highlights Christopher Cantwell is denied bail, law enforcement source says
Cantwell surrendered to police in Lynchburg, Virginia, on Wednesday
(CNN) Christopher Cantwell, who was featured in a Vice documentary about a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was denied bail on Thursday after turning himself in earlier, a senior law enforcement official said.
Police at the University of Virginia, where a torch-lit march was held on August 11, had issued warrants for his arrest on two counts of illegal use of tear gas and other gases, and one count of malicious bodily injury with a caustic substance. All the charges are felonies.
The New Hampshire resident surrendered to police in Lynchburg, Virginia, on Wednesday.
Cantwell was denied bond in Albemarle County General District Court, according to the senior law enforcement official in Charlottesville. He appeared in court via video conference from the Albemarle County Regional Jail.
A preliminary hearing was set for October 12.
Read More ||||| Image copyright YouTube Image caption Christopher Cantwell appeared in an emotional YouTube video discussing the police warrant against him
A white supremacist wanted by police over his role in violent clashes at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has handed himself in.
Christopher Cantwell, from New Hampshire, faces charges of illegal tear gas use and malicious bodily injury.
He appeared in a Vice News documentary about the 11 August demonstration.
He has admitted pepper-spraying a counter-protester but says he did so in self-defence, according to US media.
Mr Cantwell and dozens of others took part in a torch-lit parade through the University of Virginia shouting racist, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi slogans.
The far-right march had been organised to protest against the proposed removal of a statue of General Robert E Lee, who commanded the pro-slavery Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
But it descended into violence after the rally's supporters were confronted by anti-racism groups. A car driven by a man linked to white supremacists later ploughed through a crowd of counter-protesters and killed Heather Heyer.
Mr Cantwell, who is seen in the Vice documentary denouncing Jews and calling for an "ethno-state", appeared in a tearful YouTube video on 16 August asking for guidance about what to do in response to a police warrant against him.
"I want to be peaceful, I want to be law-abiding," he says.
On Wednesday, University of Virginia police said he had handed himself in and was taken into custody in Lynchburg.
Contacted by the Associated Press, Mr Cantwell said he pepper-sprayed a counter-protester "because my only other option was knocking out his teeth".
Police said he was being held on three charges - two counts of the illegal use of tear gas or other gases and one count of malicious bodily injury with a "caustic substance". If convicted, he could face several years in prison. |||||
Student: | White nationalist Christopher Cantwell has obeyed police instructions and surrendered to authorities. The New Hampshire man faces two felony charges of illegal tear gas use and one felony charge of malicious bodily injury over his role in the Charlottesville violence, reports the BBC. He turned himself in to police in Lynchburg, Va., and will be transported to Charlottesville, where the University of Virginia Police Department had warrants out for his arrest, CNN reports. He could face several years in prison if found guilty. Cantwell, one of the torch-bearing protesters who chanted slogans like "Jews will not replace us" as they marched against the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, told the AP earlier this week that he pepper-sprayed a counterprotester in self-defense "because my only other option was knocking out his teeth." He said he was looking forward to his day in court, though in a YouTube video posted after the Charlottesville rally, he became tearful while talking about his fear of being arrested. |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Output: Russian Revolution
This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
New input case for you: Where was the Summer theater?, Context: Nearby, in Ogród Saski (the Saxon Garden), the Summer Theatre was in operation from 1870 to 1939, and in the inter-war period, the theatre complex also included Momus, Warsaw's first literary cabaret, and Leon Schiller's musical theatre Melodram. The Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre (1922–26), was the best example of "Polish monumental theatre". From the mid-1930s, the Great Theatre building housed the Upati Institute of Dramatic Arts – the first state-run academy of dramatic art, with an acting department and a stage directing department.
Output: | Ogród Saski |
Creatively image a question and justification for this answer: wool sweater | The question is: She was a horrible pet owner, she would put a what on her cat?
Options:
- leave outside
- sharp teeth
- get wet
- wool sweater
- eat vegetables
Step-by-step reasoning process: Wool sweater can be put on a cat. Wool sweater is a vest. Horrible pet owners put on wool sweaters.
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In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Example Input: In mathematics a loss function or cost function is a mathematical function that maps an event , or the values of one or more variables onto a real number .
Example Output: In mathematical optimization and decision theory , a loss function or cost function is a function that maps an event or values of one or more variables onto a real number intuitively representing some " cost " associated with the event .
Example Input: Theodore Robert Rufus Long ( born September 15 , 1947 ) is an American former professional wrestling referee and manager .
Example Output: Theodore Robert Rufus Long ( born September 15 , 1947 ) is an American retired professional wrestling personality who made appearances for WWE , having served as a manager , referee and authority figure , best known for his tenure with WWE .
Example Input: It is the only tower to be in the fire zone to survive .
Example Output: | The tower was the only public building in the burned zone to survive , and is one of just a few of the surviving structures still standing .
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
See one example below:
Problem: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild.
Solution: China
Explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Problem: She's certainly got the moves on the catwalk, now Karlie Kloss is throwing some shapes in a new video that pays tribute to the height of the disco era. Dressed in a series of revealing outfits the 22-year-old model writhes, twists and dances along with I'll Be There, Chic's first new song in decades. Co-founder and lead guitarist Nile Rodgers enlisted the help of the 22-year-old supermodel for the video that harks back to the band's Seventies heyday, when hits like Le Freak dominated the dancefloor. Scroll down for video Fashion meets music: Nile Rodgers enlisted Karlie Kloss for Chic's comeback music video for I'll Be ThereChic co-founder Nile Rodgers enlisted former Victoria's Secret beautySong references Chic's Seventies disco heyday with clips from Soul TrainLady Gaga's stylist picked the clothes including a white Versace catsuit
Question:_ then decides to try on an array of minuscule sparkly dresses, until settling on a skin-tight white flared cut-out jumpsuit, before attending a party where Chic are playing live.
Solution: | Karlie Kloss |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
One example is below.
Q: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
A: No
Rationale: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Q: Tim had always a red bike. His birthday party was coming up and he hoped that his parents would finally get him the bike. When his friends came over for the party, Tim was very worried that he wouldn't get the bike. He looked at all the presents and none of them seemed big enough to have a bike in them. Tim was sad. When it was time to open the presents he opened them one at a time. The first present was not a bike. The second present was not a bike. The third present was the biggest one. Tim knew if the bike was going to be in any of the presents it was going to be in this box. Tim opened it and there was no bike inside. Just as Tim tried not to look too upset, his Dad brought in the biggest present of them all. His Dad had been hiding the present all along. Tim opened it and his new bike was inside the box. Tim put the bike together with his Dad's help. <sep>Which present that Tim opened was the biggest and was the bike in there?<sep>The biggest present was the bike
A: | No |
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A man sits down in his kitchen making himself comfortable. He starts playing accordion, enjoying and feeling the rhythm. the dog
OPTIONS:
- is in the background playing along.
- come to him, he stops playing then brush his dog's hair.
- comes into the kitchen to sit and try to help move the player.
- follows his every movement as he moves his paws towards the keys.
A: come to him, he stops playing then brush his dog's hair.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
More close ups of the boats are shown as well as people sitting in the grass and celebrating. close ups of people on the boat
OPTIONS:
- are shown with more boats riding around and moving along the water.
- are shown again in slow motion as well as people relaxing on the water.
- are shown facing backwards as well as laying back and walking along the water.
- as well as the boat continue to build as well as the people cheering in the end.
A: are shown with more boats riding around and moving along the water.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A group of athletes are on a track outside. A man walks down the path, then runs. he
OPTIONS:
- jumps over a set of uneven bars.
- takes a giant leap into a sand pit.
- completes a long jump into a sand pit, where he will stay for months.
- jumps, then throws the javelin into the air.
A: takes a giant leap into a sand pit.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to stop upsetting your mom
Spend time with her.
As you get older and your life gets busier you will find that you spend less and less time with your mom. Although this is a normal part of life, you should still make time to connect with her.
OPTIONS:
- It's the mere fact that you spend less time with her is contributing to aggravating her. Here are some tips to connecting with your mom and yourself : Read instead of watch tv.
- Set aside time to hang out with her occasionally. For example, if you have a soccer game or something that she wants to watch one day, split this time up into just one.
- When you are spending time with your mom, be sure to give her your full attention and minimize distractions. If you are still living at home, designate an evening each week to spend time together.
- For example, try taking the stairs instead of the elevator at school. Cooking dinner for your mom, even if you can't afford it, can help curb stress.
A: | When you are spending time with your mom, be sure to give her your full attention and minimize distractions. If you are still living at home, designate an evening each week to spend time together. |
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: "Parallel Worlds" is the debut single from York based rock band Elliot Minor taken from their self-titled album. It was originally released on April 9, 2007, and later due to interest from radio stations and the band's label it was decided to be re-released on April 7, 2008, almost a year later.
Hypothesis: The self-titled album was released at least a year later.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member team of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expansion franchise in 1969, and has participated in four World Series, winning in 1985 and 2015, and losing in 1980 and 2014.
Hypothesis: The Kansas City Royals have won the World Series as many times as they have lost the World Series.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Johnny Ma (born Ma Nan in Shanghai) is a Chinese-Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his debut feature film "Old Stone", which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016. The film won the awards for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and Best First Feature at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.
Hypothesis: There will never be another film like "old stone" for Johnny Ma
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: Anniesland Court is a 24-storey residential tower block in the Anniesland area of Glasgow, Scotland, designed by J Holmes & Partners and completed in 1968. It is the tallest listed building in Scotland, and is remarkably similar to Ernő Goldfinger's later and more famous Trellick Tower in London. It is the only tower block in Glasgow to have been granted a category A listing
Hypothesis: Anniesland Court is a 24-storey residential tower block in the Anniesland area of Glasgow, Scotland, originally designed by J Holmes & Partners in 1960. |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
PROBLEM: The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), first published in 1952, is one of a number of uniform acts that have been put into law with the goal of harmonizing the law of sales and other commercial transactions across the United States of America (U.S.) through UCC adoption by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories.
SOLUTION: what is the uniform commercial code (ucc) and why was it created
PROBLEM: A nonprofit organization, also known as a non-business entity, is an organization that has been formed by a group of people in order 'to pursue a common not-for-profit goal', that is, to pursue a stated goal without the intention of distributing excess revenue to members or leaders. A nonprofit organization is often dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view. In economic terms, a nonprofit organization uses its surplus revenues to further achieve its purpose or mission, rather than distributing its surplus income to the organization's shareholders (or equivalents) as profit or dividends. This is known as the non-distribution constraint. The decision to adopt a nonprofit legal structure is one that will often have taxation implications, particularly where the nonprofit seeks income tax exemption or charitable status.
SOLUTION: what does it mean to have a non profit organization
PROBLEM: More recently, he has gained recognition for his recurring supporting roles as Jack Geller on Friends (1994 -- 2004), as Reuben Tishkoff in the Ocean's Trilogy (2001 -- 2007), and as Ezra Goldman in Ray Donovan (2013 -- 2015). Until its cancellation, he had a leading role in the 2017 TV series Doubt.
SOLUTION: | who played ross and monica's dad in friends
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Teacher: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Solution: Russian Revolution
Reason: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Now, solve this instance: What platform was announced with the release of the Zune HD?, Context: On May 26, 2009, Microsoft announced the future release of the Zune HD (in the fall of 2009), the next addition to the Zune product range. This is of an impact on the Xbox Live Video Store as it was also announced that the Zune Video Marketplace and the Xbox Live Video Store will be merged to form the Zune Marketplace, which will be arriving on Xbox Live in 7 countries initially, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Spain. Further details were released at the Microsoft press conference at E3 2009.
Student: | Zune Marketplace |
Question: The earliest historical record of the Diaoyu Islands can date back to China's Ming Dynasty about 650 years ago in a book titled "Voyage With a Tail Wind," published in 1403. The book records the first usage of "Diaoyu Islet" and "Chiwei Islet". The names refer to the current Diaoyu Islands and Chiwei Islet. Hu Zongxian, the Zhejiang governor of the Ming Dynasty, placed the Diaoyu Islands and surrounding islets within China's maritime defense system. It demonstrates that the islands have been within China's _ defense region since the Ming Dynasty. Japan claimed sovereignty during the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, seizing the islands by illegal means. The Cairo Declaration issued after World War II stipulated that all territory taken by Japan illegally, including China's northeast, Taiwan and Penghu islets, must be returned to China. In August 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. The declaration laid out that Japan must return Taiwan, the Diaoyu Islands and surrounding islets to China. But the islands came under US control after 1945. In 1951, Japan and the US signed an illegal treaty in San Francisco without inviting China. The islands were then "entrusted" to Japan according to the treaty. On September 18th, 1951, then Chinese Premier and Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai made a solemn statement on behalf of the Chinese government that the Treaty of Peace with Japan signed in San Francisco was illegal , and would not be recognized without the participation and signing of the People's Republic of China. In June 1971, Japan and the United States signed an agreement to hand over Okinawa to Japan. The Diaoyu Islands were mapped into the handover area. China's Foreign Ministry announced on December 30th 1971 that such a move was "totally illegal" and reiterated that the Diaoyu Islands and surrounding islets were "an integral part of the Chinese territory". According of the text, what statemetn is NOT TRUE? A) China's sovereignty to Diaoyu Island dates back to the Ming Dynasty. B) The Potsdam Declaration issued that Japan must return Diaoyu Island and surrrounding islets to China. C) In August 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender under the terms of the Cairo Declaration. D) So far as new China's government is concerned, the treaty between Japan and USA about Diaoyu Island and surrounding islets is considered illegal.
Answer: C
Question: Bears and humans often meet in National Parks. Although campers and hikers are warned not to feed the bears, many people ignore these warnings and feed the beasts anyway. When bears are used to people's food, problems soon arise. Bears like to eat a large variety of things, both meat and vegetable. Without human assistance, bears live nicely on roots, twigs, leaves of trees, insects and small animals. With people around, the bears' tastes quickly expand to include sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, and anything else they can temp humans into giving up. Bears often develop clever strategies for getting people to let go their food supplies. More often than not, an unsuspecting hiker has taken off his or her pack for a rest only to have a bear charge out of the woods, grab the pack and quickly disappear into the underbrush with it. Hanging the pack on a tree branch won't help. Bears have been known to climb up, jump off, and catch the pack on the way down. One mother bear stretched up with her baby on her shoulders to reach a pack stored on a pole. Many bears threaten people into giving up their supplies. Although a bear is unlikely to attack a person and would probably run away if screamed at, few people are willing to do so. Most people drop the pack and run the other way. This, of course, delights the bear. In some places, the Park Service installed some metal barrels with lids to help campers keep their supplies safe from bears. Although the bears were unable to open these containers, the effort was less than successful. Most campers, unable to tell the metal drums from rubbish cans, never used them for the intended purpose. Bear-proof containers didn't work because_. A) bears were clever enough to get the food in them B) they were left open in the open air C) people were not sure of their use D) they were once used as rubbish cans
Answer: C
Question: Researchers questioned nearly 9,800 people over the age of 50 about their lives and found women were happier than men and enjoy life more in old age. Dr Elizabeth Breeze, one of the researchers, said that women could become happier as they get older as they no longer have to worry about looking after their families. She said:"There is a difference between the way men and women view their quality of life and they are influenced by slightly different things. Women are affected negatively by caring for someone else or if they are not in employment but if they see their children and family more they are positively affected." "A strange thing happens to male actors, especially movie stars, in my experience," said Helen Mirren, a 62-year-old Hollywood actress."A young male actor feels that all the girls want him-he's a star. As actors get older they bad-tempered for they have lost that sense of being in control of their destiny ." Wealth also helps you live longer with the poorest people more than twice as likely to die earlier than the richest, researchers at University College London discovered. In some age groups. the difference was even greater. The poorest women between 60 and 74 are six times more likely to have died than the richest women of the same age. According to the study, you have more chances of living longer if you are married, educated to certain degree or a professional. single people are twice as likely to die early as those who are married or living with a partner. What can we know from the passage? A) Men should not worry about looking after their family any more in old age B) Male actors, especially movie stars are easy to get bad--tempered when they get older and older. C) The poorest women about the age of 50 can't live longer than the richest women at the same age. D) Education has nothing to do with happy life in people's old age.
Answer: | B |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A man is seated behind a bar. He is displaying several bottles of drinks in front of him. he
Available choices: * advertises their services on a black screen. * holds up a needle, and shoots some of it into a glass. * shakes them up and down as he drinks. * uses a large glass and a shaker to create a drink. | uses a large glass and a shaker to create a drink. |
Question: The Sears Tower in Chicago, finished in 1974, has 110 stories and is 1,450 feet tall.
The Sears Tower has 110 stories.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer: yes
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
Draft experts draft eight international players.
Draft experts say as many as eight U.S. high school prospects could be taken in the first round of the two-round draft, as well as up to eight international players.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
no
The country's largest private employer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is being sued by a number of its female employees who claim they were kept out of jobs in management because they are women.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: Wal-Mart sued for sexual discrimination
yes
The May 3 ferry sinking in the Meghna River that claimed the lives of at least 370 people is a reminder of the dangers inherent in this sort of travel.
Is this true: 100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: yes
Question:
The prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a pacifist and entrepreneur who invented dynamite in 1866. Nobel left much of his wealth to establish the award, which has honoured achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and efforts to promote peace since 1901.
Is this true?
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
yes
Question: Maine knows he killed Lennon and that he is also a child molester. During the '92 election George Bush admitted twice on TV "Nobody likes who shot John... I know the media is fascinated with this story but..."
John Lennon was killed in 1992.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer: | no |
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: The Legendary Majik Mijits is an album that was recorded by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane when they reformed under the name of "Majik Mijits" in 1981 and gave a one-off concert at the Bridgehouse pub in East London. The lineup included Jim Leverton, Mick Green, Mick Weaver, Dave Hynes and Sam Brown.
Hypothesis: The Legendary Majik Mijits was an album recorded by Ronnie Lane and Steve Irwin
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: The Golden Fetter is a 1917 American romance silent film directed by Edward LeSaint and written by Charles Tenney Jackson and Charles Maigne. The film stars Wallace Reid, Anita King, Tully Marshall, Guy Oliver, Walter Long and Mrs. Lewis McCord. The film was released on January 25, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.
Hypothesis: It snowed on the day The Golden Fetter was released.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: The 44th Filmfare Awards were held on February 21, 1999, in Mumbai India. Karan Johar's directorial debut "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" dominated the awards, including a sweep of the major acting categories. Ram Gopal Varma's "Satya and Mani Ratnam's "Dil Se.." were the other big winners.
Hypothesis: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai swept the mayor acting categories.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: The Santa Cova Funicular (Catalan: "Funicular de la Santa Cova" ) is a funicular railway at Montserrat, near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. The line descends from the monastery, and the upper terminus of the Montserrat Rack Railway, on a continuous curve to a lower station that gives access, via a path, to Santa Cova, a shrine lower down the mountain.
Hypothesis: Funicular is not a Catalan word. |
Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: (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. 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. 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. The club's sporting director Ramon Rodriguez admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had "done what I had to." 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. "Tuesday was the end of the story but the decision comes from the image and dynamics of the team. Without doubt we are grateful to Manolo. He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible. However it is obvious that he could not get a response out of the team. "Fortunately we believe that there is time. The growth and the ambition of the club is shown in the change of the manager. We are fighting for important things." Xerez's injury-time equaliser on Tuesday meant Sevilla's last league success was against Real Mallorca back in February. Ironically, it is Mallorca who occupy the much-coveted fourth spot in the table that guarantees Champions League football next season. Jimenez took charge in October 2007 when former coach Juande Ramos left to take over at English Premier League team Tottenham. <sep>Name three factors that contributed to the removal of coach Manolo Jimenez:<sep>He could not get a response from his team, the growth and ambition of the club is shown when a manager is changes and due to the image and dynamics of the team
Output: | Yes |
*Ans* getting tired
*Question* I was sick of driving the car as I had done so for 10 hours, how was I feeling?
Options:
- death
- wreak
- pollution
- getting tired
- happy
*CoT* Long run driving requires person to sit constantly. Sitting continuesly for long time makes person feel tired.
*Ans* wine country
*Question* Where are small grapes likely to be found?
Options:
- lunch box
- food store
- wine country
- kitchen
- raisins
*CoT* Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice. Small grapes are fermented to make wine in a wine country.
*Ans* bluegrass music
| *Question* What are you playing if you're fiddling on a violin?
Options:
- bluegrass music
- make music
- drop
- string instrument
- troubles
*CoT* Bluegrass music requires string instruments and violin is string instrument. Person can play bluegrass music by fiddling on a violin. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
Sky of Avalon – Prologue to the Symphonic Legends is a studio album by German guitarist Uli Jon Roth marking a debut for his symphonic music project Sky of Avalon. It was produced at Sky Studios, Earl's Farm in Autumn 1995, except for "Starlight" and "Winds of War" produced in 1992 at Sky Studios, Seaford. It was released in 1996 in Japan and Europe, finally reaching the U.S. in 1998.
Hypothesis: the "Winds of War" album was released in a country that starts with J. | No |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Washington (CNN) Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that a mistake in navigation was the reason U.S. sailors entered Iranian waters earlier this week. "I think that this much is clear, there was a navigational error of some kind," he said at a press conference on Thursday. "All the contributing factors to that we don't know yet, and we're still talking to those folks, and we'll find out more ... but they were clearly out of the position that they intended to be in." The two U.S. Navy boats seized by Iran with 10 sailors on board were within three miles of Iran's Farsi Island when the Iranians took them, according to a U.S. defense official directly familiar with the latest information about the incident.The two U.S. Navy boats seized by Iran with 10 sailors on board were within three miles of Iran's Farsi Island when the Iranians took themThe boats had drifted off course, but one was also suffering engine trouble
Question:Both boats were returned to the U.S., and the Navy does not believe the _ removed any gear or weapons, the official said.
Output: | Iranian |
Context:
Governor Greg Abbott has called for a statewide show of support for law enforcement Friday, July 7. Locally, a 15-minute program is planned at 9 a.m. at Memorial Lane Park, 550 N. Travis St. The governor is asking law enforcement officers to turn on red and blue flashing lights for one-minute at 10 a.m. Multiple law enforcement officers were shot and killed in Dallas one year ago.
Hypothesis: The statewide show of support for law enforcement is in the seventh month.
Yes
Context:
Founded in 2016, Mediaindo is quickly becoming one of the largest suppliers of the best diet pills in their field, sporting equipment and supplements in Indonesia. Our goal is and always has been to provide our customers direct access to the best brands at low prices backed with exceptional customer service and fast delivery. If you need help with choosing any of our products, our friendly support team are on standby to answer your questions. With offices in Jakatara and more planned to open throughout Asia during the year, the company has an exciting time ahead.
Hypothesis: Mediaindo offers a friendly support team that is on standby to answer questions.
Yes
Context:
TV Repair<br>Ian was proud of his expensive plasma television. He thought the picture was superior to the television sets sold today. He was quite distressed when the set stopped working one day. He learned from the internet a simple trick to get it to turn on. He was ecstatic when the picture reappeared after the procedure.
Hypothesis: Ian's TV did not cost a lot of money to purchase.
| No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example input: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Example output: Russian Revolution
Example explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Q: The teams are also called?, Context: The official Cubs team mascot is a young bear cub, named Clark, described by the team's press release as a young and friendly Cub. Clark made his debut at Advocate Health Care on January 13, 2014, the same day as the press release announcing his installation as the club's first ever official physical mascot. The bear cub itself was used in the clubs since the early 1900s and was the inspiration of the Chicago Staleys changing their team's name to the Chicago Bears, due to the Cubs allowing the football team to play at Wrigley Field in the 1930s.
A: | clubs |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild.
Solution is here: China
Explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Now, solve this: A 103-year-old deckchair recovered from the wreck of the Titanic is expected to fetch around £80,000 at auction. The chair was on the first class promenade deck when the liner sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912. It was found bobbing on the surface of the Atlantic by the crew of the Mackay-Bennett, who were sent to recover the bodies of the victims after the tragedy. A 103-year-old deckchair recovered from the wreck of the Titanic is expected to fetch around £80,000 at auction The ship's log records six or seven deckchairs being picked up and taken back to port in Halifax, Nova Scotia.Chair was on first class deck when ship hit an iceberg in April 1912Mackay-Bennett crew members found it while clearing up the wreckOwned for last 15 years by English collector and will be auctioned on April 18
Question:April 14: _'s crew are warned by other ships of drifting icebergs.
Solution: | Titanic |
Definition: In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
Input: White coat ceremony -- The White Coat Ceremony (WCC) is a relatively new ritual in some medical (MD, DO), dental, optometry, audiology, chiropractic, dietetic, occupational therapy, physical therapy, podiatric, pharmacy, physician assistant, pathologists' assistant, nursing, naturopathic and veterinary schools that marks the student's transition from the study of preclinical to clinical health sciences. At some schools, where students begin meeting patients early in their education, the white coat ceremony is held before the first year begins. It is an example of a matriculation.
Output: | does pa school have a white coat ceremony |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
PROBLEM: (CNN) A United Nations official is headed to the Central African Republic after reports that over 100 women, girls and boys were raped and abused -- many by U.N. peacekeepers. Jane Holl Lute, a senior U.N. official tasked with leading efforts to curb peacekeeper abuse, was en route to the country Wednesday, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said. Allegations of sexual abuse by foreign and local forces have plagued the Central African Republic since the United Nations sent forces to the country two years ago. But they're still just as shocking as ever. Central African Republic peacekeeper chief fired over sex abuse claimsA senior U.N. official heads to the Central African Republic amid a new wave of abuse allegationsU.N. official: Over 100 women, children said they were sexually abused by U.N. and non-U.N. forcesAccusations of sex abuse have emerged since peacekeeping forces entered the country in 2014
Questions:The _'s top official in charge of human rights called the new accusations "sickening." (A) United Nations (B) Central African Republic (C) Jane Holl Lute (D) Farhan Haq
SOLUTION: (A)
PROBLEM: David Cameron today joked he had doubled the security around Larry the Downing Street cat after the 'murder' of a dog at Crufts. The Prime Minister attacked the 'unbelievable awful' killing of the award-winning Irish setter Jagger, who was killed by poisoned meat allegedly fed to him at the dog show. He said he could not understand how anyone could poison a family dog and quipped that he would ramp up security around Number 10's resident cat. Prime Minister David Cameron today joked he had doubled the security around Larry the Downing Street Mr Cameron, speaking to Heart radio, insisted he was not overly concerned about the safety of Larry.PM said he could not understand how anyone could poison a family petIrish setter Jagger died 24 hours after returning from Crufts this weekendCameron said: 'Who would do that? It's an unbelievably awful thing to do'Said Larry the Number 10 cat was 'probably pretty' inside Downing StreetHe added: 'I'll double the security around him and make sure he's okay'
Questions:_'s owners are convinced the dog was the victim of meat poisoning. (A) David Cameron (B) Larry (C) Downing Street (D) Crufts (E) Irish (F) Jagger (G) Number 10 (H) Cameron (I) PM
SOLUTION: (F)
PROBLEM: (CNN) I live in Miami. I'm pregnant. I tested positive for the Zika virus. At least that's what I was told, and that's what I believed for six long, painful weeks. They were excruciating weeks of waiting for a special test that only the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can do to confirm whether I had, in fact, contracted Zika during the beginning of my first trimester -- a crucial period of time for a fetus' brain and nervous system development. I endured over 40 anxiety-provoking days carrying my second baby, one that I wasn't sure I would be able to keep, before learning that my test result was -- thankfully -- a false positive.Lindsay C. Malloy: While pregnant with my second child, I had a false positive Zika testMy experience isn't rare, she writes, and we need more funding for better testing and support
Questions:Despite our extreme precautions, I had my blood drawn for my free _ test just one week later. (A) CNN (B) Miami (C) Zika (D) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (E) Lindsay C. Malloy
SOLUTION: | (C)
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In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: Marshalltown, Iowa (CNN) Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska announced Tuesday he will campaign with two of Donald Trump's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, just two days after he chastised Trump for his marital infidelities. As part of an 18-tweet spree on Sunday night, Sasse asked Trump whether he has "repented" for his "many affairs w/ married women." "@realDonaldTrump Q4: You brag abt many affairs w/ married women. Have you repented? To harmed children & spouses? Do you think it matters?" Sasse asked Trump in a tweet that was retweeted more than 700 times. The tweets came after Trump attended church services in Iowa on Sunday morning. Entering the final stretch in Iowa, where evangelicals are a key portion of the Republican primary electorate, Trump has played up his Christianity and turned to supporters like Jerry Falwell Jr. to boost his religious bona fides.Sunday night, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse asked Trump whether he has "repented" for his "many affairs w/ married women"The tweets came after Trump attended church services in Iowa on Sunday morning
Question:RELATED: _ picks up endorsement of evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.
A: | Donald Trump |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A lady with wet hair sits in a chair as a person holding the blow dryer moves it around. The lady scrunches the wet hair as she blow dries it. we
OPTIONS:
- see a split screen with text.
- see the closing credits logo then see the screen go black.
- now see a lady blow drying dirty hair.
- see an instruction scene and the lady leans forward as her hair is being blow dried.
OUT: see an instruction scene and the lady leans forward as her hair is being blow dried.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
Men are sitting on top of street and a man running from the bull and gets to the men on top. bulls
OPTIONS:
- are in a arena fenced in and people are running and doing tricks.
- are chasing people on streets while people runs from the bull.
- are in an arena surrounded by people sitting in a pool and a bull and men are playing defense while the bull tries to have him again.
- are standing in the middle of a stage with two people in either direction and people gathering to see their performance.
****
Answer:
are chasing people on streets while people runs from the bull.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to spend time outdoors with friends
Eat outside.
One simple way to begin spending more time outdoors with friends is to eat outside. Many of your interactions with your friends might involve food so this is a simple way to break your indoor routine.
OPTIONS:
- Studies have shown that the benefits of spending time outdoors are much greater than those of eating at home in the home. If you are just around the corner from your family, try going hiking or skiing to meet some of your friends.
- If all of your friends have certain foods they enjoy you can mix things up for breakfast and lunch. Try to stick to 1 to 3 different foods in the morning, lunch, and evening.
- If you go out to a restaurant, ask to be seated outside. If you are eating at home, then take you dinner outside to the porch or patio.
- There are a number of outdoor alternative activities that can help you enjoy your indoor time indoors too. Try a nature walk or dog run.
A: If you go out to a restaurant, ask to be seated outside. If you are eating at home, then take you dinner outside to the porch or patio.
People are seen walking in the forest carrying tubes and lead into them sitting in the water. more people
OPTIONS:
- are seen sitting around a boat on their bottom as well as riding in the tube along the mountains and performing tricks.
- climb into the water and sit on top of their tubes.
- are seen riding floating in tubes with the main frame covered in snow.
- walk with the tubes enjoying the nanothermite water while a cold wind blows.
climb into the water and sit on top of their tubes.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to decorate your room for christmas
Add a christmas tree.
Christmas trees come in all shapes and sizes, but a smaller one might look more proportionate in a bedroom. You might also want to get a fake tree as opposed to a real one.
OPTIONS:
- Ask a friend or relative for ideas if you find yourself struggling to think up a christmas tree on your own. Place the tree outside during the holidays.
- First, purchase a tree for your room and keep it in a box. If you don't have the money to purchase a real tree, make sure you keep one for your bedroom.
- If you're more creative than what some people are used to, consider getting a christmas tree that works with your decor. Arrange furniture so that the patterns are hidden.
- They are less likely to shed leaves and do not need to be watered. Add a small craft tree if you have some desk or shelf space.
answer: They are less likely to shed leaves and do not need to be watered. Add a small craft tree if you have some desk or shelf space.
IN: What happens next?
How to compliment a woman
Identify what they value in themselves.
First, try to think about what the woman likes about herself. Try to go beyond noticing her clothes and makeup, because she might do that more for other people than herself.
OPTIONS:
- Try to think about something that she really cares about. For example, she might be really proud of her ability to play an instrument.
- Unfortunately, sometimes compliments can become shallow and frustrating very quickly. Ask yourself if she values or pleases you, or if there's really something that people like about you.
- If you listen to others and their opinions, you will not only be able to tell what they value in themselves, but also will be able to tell what sets you apart as the person who can give that particular girl the biggest compliment. For example, if you are very outgoing and good at cooking, try offering to help her with dishes that you had just cooked.
- Instead, ask yourself what qualities a woman enjoys most from a person. Write down five things you admire about a woman and then list all the good qualities.
OUT: | Try to think about something that she really cares about. For example, she might be really proud of her ability to play an instrument. |
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A woman is outside with her two kids, drawing a game of hopscotch on the ground with a piece of chalk. when she
A: is finished, the older child stands behind the number one, waves to the camera and hops all the way through the game.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
After several subtitles, a man appears kayaking just sitting in the middle of the current struggling to go forward. time
A: passes by and he is then seen again flipping over after continuous waves come knocking him out of the kayak.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
Once she turns the water on, she begins scrubbing her arms and under her nails for 15 minutes. next she
A: applies the soap and follows the same motions making sure to clean all the way up to her elbows before washing it off.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to be a motivational speaker at schools
Embed yourself in the world of teenagers.
Learn about their pop culture and lifestyle. Read their magazines and visit the websites they frequent.
A: | To connect with teens it's critical to know what they think about and, more importantly, what they care about. Draw on your own experiences as a teen. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: Wheel 2000 ( full title Wheel of Fortune 2000 ) was a childrens ' television game show .
A: | Wheel 2000 ( also known as Wheel of Fortune 2000 ) is a children 's version of the American game show " Wheel of Fortune " ( and the last version of Wheel of any sort to air on Daytime television ) . |
input hypothesis: hades is sometimes referred to as saturn
Context: Hades (also sometimes referred to as Pluto or Hell) is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as an adversary and sometimes-ally of the super hero Wonder Woman. Based upon the Greek mythological figure of the same name, he is the Greek god of the dead and ruler of the underworld.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: No
Context:
Anthony "Tony" Ulasewicz (December 14, 1918 in New York, United States – December 17, 1997 in Glens Falls, New York) was a figure in the Watergate scandal, delivering hundreds of thousands of dollars in "hush money" to Watergate defendants G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt. He also investigated the lives of notable Democrats like Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He was of Polish descent.
Hypothesis: Ulasewicz once lived in Washington D.C. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
SAO PAULO May 30 A Brazilian court ordered state-controlled oil firm Petróleo Brasileiro SA to sell natural gas to Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA despite the power utility's billionaire debt with the oil company. Eletrobras, as the state-controlled utility is known, plans to use the gas to begin testing a thermal power station under construction in the Amazon region that is scheduled to start operating in June. (Reporting by Luciano Costa; Writing by Bruno Federowski)
Sentence: Thermal power stations are dangerous.
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
The petitioners would like to bring to the attention of the House that managing the family home and caring for preschool children is an honourable profession which has not been recognized for its value to our society and that the Income Tax Act discriminates against families who choose to provide care in the home to preschool children.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Preschool children are able to operate motor vehicles on public roadways.
****
Answer:
No
[Q]: Danny Flynn (born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire) is an English fantasy and science fiction artist. He attended St Augustine Webster Primary School and High Ridge Comprehensive in his birth town Scunthorpe before taking a degree in Illustration at Kingston upon Thames University. Danny Flynn is single OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: How to break a lock<br>Determine whether your padlock has a single-or double-lock shackle. In most cases, this will be impossible to determine by just looking at the padlock. Check its packaging, contact its manufacturers, or research it online to discover what kind of shackle it has. they are talking about dogs only OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: | No |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A man is scraping ice off the drivers window of a truck with an ice scraper. he | moves ice on the ground with his foot. |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
Undead is a 2003 Australian zombie science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig and starring Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay and Rob Jenkins. It was then-relatively-unknown "Good Game" presenter Steven O'Donnell's first film role.
Sentence: Steven O'Donnell was still relatively unknown in 2003 when he landed his first film role.
Options:
i. Yes.
ii. It's impossible to say.
iii. No. | i. |
Question with options: can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
(CNN) -- Malawians are rallying behind Madonna as she awaits a ruling Friday on whether she can adopt a girl from the southern African nation. The pop star, who has three children, adopted a son from Malawi in 2006. She is seeking to adopt Chifundo "Mercy" James, 4. "Ninety-nine percent of the people calling in are saying, 'let her take the baby,' " said Marilyn Segula, a presenter at Capital FM, which broadcasts in at least five cities, including the capital, Lilongwe.
Hypothesis: Madonna has three children.
OPT:
-yes;
-no;
A: | yes |
input hypothesis: The member who sits opposite to them was in tears because she was forced to vote for what her party told her to.
Context: On the other hand, a couple of days ago the member who sits opposite, the member who is running off at the mouth over there, during a very emotional vote in this House was crying her eyes out simply because her party and her leader had threatened her and coerced her into voting the party line.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
Nil Fyodorovich Filatov (Russian: Нил Фёдорович Филатов , 2 June [O.S. 21 May] 1847 , or 16 April [O.S. 4 April] 1847 , – 8 February [O.S. 26 January] 1902 ) was a physician who is considered the founder of Russian paediatrics. His nephew Vladimir Filatov was a prominent ophthalmologist.
Hypothesis: Nil Filatov was born on 2 June 1847 and 16 April 1847 OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
No
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump affirms plan to deliver State of Union despite Pelosi’s request to postpone, says it would be ‘very sad’ to delay. Copyright © 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.
Sentence: Trump decided not to postpone
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
The Stew<br>Josh liked cooking. He decided to make a stew. He chopped the vegetables and meat. He mixed it in a pot and let it simmer. The stew tasted great!
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Josh cooked the stew for his mother.
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: Karan Romesh Sharma (Hindi: करन शर्मा ; born 26 October 1981) is an Indian actor. He made his film debut in 2005 Bollywood film "Dil Jo Bhi Kahey..." starring opposite Amitabh Bachchan and directed and co-produced by his father Romesh Sharma. The film however did not do well, with Sharma receiving negative reviews. In 2003, he did a Mauritian series "C'est la vie", which was telecast in Mauritius. Karan Sharma received rave reviews for his role in the film Dil Jo Bhi Kahey. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
[Q]: I wanted Matthew to put it in the Savings Bank in the first place , but old Mr. Abbey was a great friend of father 's and he 'd always banked with him .<br>Matthew said any bank with him at the head of it was good enough for anybody . ''<br>`` I think he has only been its nominal head for many years , '' said Anne . Matthew is a woman. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: | No |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: Beijing (CNN) Nationalist sentiment has swept China in the wake of last week's international tribunal ruling over the South China Sea, with protests targeting KFC, Apple and Filipino fruit. But the Chinese government has had enough, telling protestors through the the state-run People's Daily newspaper Wednesday that they are being "irrational and disruptive." On July 12, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled overwhelmingly in favor of the Philippines, saying there was no legal basis for China's claim to a large part of the South China Sea. China strongly rejected the decision. In the week after the ruling, videos and pictures of nationalists boycotting U.S. food chains -- the ultimate U.S. symbol in their eyes -- have been posted on social media in several Chinese cities.KFC, Apple targeted after South China Sea court verdictThe People's Daily calls for "rational patriotism"
Question:Analysts say the ruling has sparked an outburst of nationalism among _.
A: | China |
Definition: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Input: Executive stylist John Najjar, who was a fan of the World War II P-51 Mustang fighter plane, is credited by Ford to have suggested the name. Najjar co-designed the first prototype of the Ford Mustang known as Ford Mustang I in 1961, working jointly with fellow Ford stylist Philip T. Clark. The Mustang I made its formal debut at the United States Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, New York on October 7, 1962, where test driver and contemporary Formula One race driver Dan Gurney lapped the track in a demonstration using the second 'race' prototype. His lap times were only slightly off the pace of the F1 race cars.
Output: | where did the ford mustang get its name |
Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Input: Washington (CNN) North Korea might not be able to reach the U.S. mainland with a nuclear weapon yet, but the political fallout from its claimed hydrogen bomb test is here already. Even before the shockwaves of the 5.1 temblor triggered by Tuesday's test wore off, Hillary Clinton was fighting off a volley of Republican attacks, GOP presidential candidates were talking tough and Donald Trump jumped on a chance to chastise China. The episode was a fresh indication of the challenge that Clinton faces in running for the White House on her record as secretary of state, which makes it impossible for her to escape deficiencies in President Barack Obama's national security legacy.The episode is a fresh indication of the challenge that Clinton faces in running for the White House on her record as secretary of stateWashington has tried punishment and inducements repeatedly with North Korea and has failed to change its calculations
Questions:He then toughened his stance by including _ in his "axis of evil." (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) North Korea (D) U.S. (E) Hillary Clinton (F) Republican (G) GOP (H) Donald Trump (I) China (J) Clinton (K) White House (L) Barack Obama
Output: | (C) |
Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy. What do you think matter is used for? One thing is to build bodies. They also need it to carry out the processes of life. Any non-living matter that living things need is called a nutrient. Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients. Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems. You can see how in Figure 3.11. Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms. The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots. The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants. The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers. When living things die, the cycle repeats. <sep>What do living things use non living matter for?<sep>Carry out process of life
Output: | Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[Q]: Historically, LSEO letter-writing campaigns generated from $11,000 to $25,000 annually, recalls Dallas Ferguson, a Tulsa attorney and board president of the new LASO. That amount hardly offset enormous cuts, beginning in 1996, by Congress to Legal Services Corp., the chief funding source for state legal-aid agencies. Threatened with extinction, LSEO clawed its way back with the help of state funding, grant money and the Tulsa Area United Way. Meanwhile, the clients keep coming. At least three-quarters are women and children living in poverty. The agency helps more than 12,000 children a year. A third of LSEO's clients are the working poor who receive no government benefits. Many are senior citizens. Riggs regrets that retired Tulsa attorney John Athens, a champion of legal aid, did not live to see how much the money has meant. Athens died last year. In his honor, The Oxley Foundation donated $200,000 to expand a client hot line. That service, which will be expanded statewide, enables needy people to consult an attorney about civil legal problems, including rent and contract disputes, domestic abuse, consumer issues and custody matters. Attorneys handle no criminal cases. R.H. Harbaugh, foundation trustee and a colleague of Athens at the Conner & Winters law firm, said his mentor had "a special interest in people who could not afford legal services. He was aware of the hot line and supported its expansion." Said Riggs: "We use lofty phrases such as 'with justice for all,' when we talk about our legal system. That phrase is etched on our U.S. Supreme Court building. Those are just empty words if people don't have access to that system." <sep>The Oxley Foundation donated $200,000 to expand a client hot line in whose honor?<sep>Riggs
[A]: No
[Q]: Early in chapter 5 we introduced, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other men who became operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri. As we explained, both were involved during 1998 and 1999 in preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives. They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead. In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank. More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole. The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40. The plot, we now know, was a full-fledged al Qaeda operation, supervised directly by Bin Laden. He chose the target and location of the attack, selected the suicide operatives, and provided the money needed to purchase explosives and equipment. Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen. Khallad helped in Yemen until he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and freed with Bin Laden's help, as we also mentioned earlier. Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment. The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras. Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras. Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack. Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden. <sep>Who provided the funds for the attack on the USS Cole?<sep>Al Qaeda Chief
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans. 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. 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. We had to live there." Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan. 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. 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. 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. Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage. 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. The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft. Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed. 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. Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option. 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. Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible. 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. The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles. <sep>What did the head of special operation command think of the option<sep>He thought the option was feasible
[A]: | Yes
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Charlotte Anley (1796–1893) was a 19th-century English didactic novelist, social and religious writer, composer and lyricist. She was a Quaker, and spent the years 1836–38 in Australia, researching for a report on women's prisons commissioned by Elizabeth Fry.
Charlotte Anley wrote songs. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
input hypothesis: The Transporter television series was filmed in Canada.
Context: "" was an English language French–Canadian action television series that ran from 2012 to 2014. Based on the "Transporter" action film franchise by Luc Besson, it featured Chris Vance in the main role as Frank Martin, the Transporter. Two seasons were produced, each comprising 12 episodes.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: It's impossible to say
Context:
Chlorophyll (also chlorophyl) is any of several closely related green pigments found in cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts of algae and plants. Its name is derived from the Greek words χλωρός, "chloros" ("green") and φύλλον, "phyllon" ("leaf"). Chlorophyll is essential in photosynthesis, allowing plants to absorb energy from light.
Hypothesis: Chlorophyll is any of several closely related yellow pigments found in cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts of algae and plants OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
No
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Monkey Business is a 1952 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Ben Hecht, which stars Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, and Marilyn Monroe. To avoid confusion with the famous 1931 Marx Brothers film of the same name, this film is sometimes referred to as Howard Hawks' Monkey Business.
Sentence: Monkey Business released in 1931 was a commercial failure
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Michael Adas (born 4 February 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian and currently the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. He specializes in the history of technology, the history of anticolonialism and in global history.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Professor Adas was born in the first quarter of 1943.
****
Answer:
Yes
Odrzywół is a village in Przysucha County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Odrzywół. It lies in northern part of historic Lesser Poland, approximately 18 km north of Przysucha and 84 km south of Warsaw. The village has an approximate population of 1,300.
Odrzywół is 20 km north of central Poland. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
Laura Elena Zúñiga Huizar (born January 3, 1985) is a Mexican model and beauty queen, center of a drug trafficking scandal in December 2008. The critically acclaimed 2011 film "Miss Bala" ("Miss Bullet") is loosely based on Zúñiga and her involvement in the events of December 2008.
Hypothesis: Laura Elena Zúñiga Huizar met Obama. | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
[Q]: Belgian doctors are planning to kill a perfectly healthy 24-year-old woman by euthanasia because she is suffering from 'suicidal thoughts'. It is estimated that five people a day in Belgium die with the assistance of doctors, ranging from those with terminal illness to others with chronic, but not life threatening ailments. Now, a woman, known only as the fictitious name Laura, has been told she qualifies for euthanasia, despite not having a terminal disease. The young woman spoke with Belgian newspaper De Morgen about her decision. She said she was convinced that she had to die since her childhood claiming 'life, that's not for me'.Laura, 24, does not suffer from any terminal disease or physical illnessShe told doctors who assessed her condition that 'life, that's not for me'Five people a day currently die with the assistance of medics in BelgiumNew figures show that euthanasia numbers have jumped by a third
Questions:The report raised new questions over _’s increasingly controversial 13-year-old euthanasia law, which has won wide acceptance from the medical establishment, and which now allows even children to be killed by doctors. (A) Belgian (B) Laura (C) De Morgen
[A]: (A)
[Q]: (CNN) -- In a place accustomed to tough stretches, this has been a particularly tough few days at the White House. After emerging from the showdown over the Republican-led government shutdown relatively unscathed, the Obama administration finds itself under assault on three fronts: problems surrounding Obamacare, the revelations of the U.S. spying on allies, and the 2012 attack on the U.S diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, the latter for which a senator has threatened to hold up all of the Obama administration's nominations. The controversies are sure to fuel continued Republican attacks on President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies as the nation gears up for midterm elections next year, and the White House has portrayed the attacks as so much partisan chatter.The White House is on the defensive over claims some could lose health coverageThe administration is also facing criticism over spying allegationsBenghazi is also resurfacing as senator threatens to delay nominationsThe controversies are sure to fuel partisan rancor as midterm campaigns ramp up
Questions:It also offered _ ammunition to renew their attacks on the plan. (A) CNN (B) White House (C) Republican (D) Obama (E) Obamacare (F) U.S. (G) U.S (H) Benghazi (I) Libya (J) Barack Obama (K) Democratic
[A]: (C)
[Q]: (CNN) The cavalry is coming! Not exactly, but the sentiment of reassurance is the same. This week, US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrives in Asia to visit South Korea and Japan. Two stalwart US allies, policymakers in both capitals have nevertheless been shaken by statements Donald Trump made while campaigning for President. None of these was more dramatic than the suggestion that these allies should pay more for US troops or risk having these forces withdrawn. Statements like this played to the worst fears in Seoul and Tokyo that the United States might no longer be a committed ally. It is now Mattis' job to reassure them of US commitments and return the trajectory of alliance relations back to pre-2016 presidential campaign rhetoric.Jeffrey Hornung: Japan, South Korea were shaken by statements Donald Trump made while campaigningWashington's alliances with Seoul and Tokyo will be critical in managing challenges posed by China and North Korea, he says
Questions:Given the severity of the _ threat, it is crucial they hammer out any possible differences that may have arisen since Trump became president. (A) US (B) James Mattis (C) Asia (D) South Korea (E) Japan (F) Donald Trump (G) Seoul (H) Tokyo (I) United States (J) Mattis (K) Jeffrey Hornung (L) Washington (M) China (N) North Korea
[A]: | (N)
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Part 1. Definition
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Part 2. Example
For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild. (A) Tian Tian (B) UK (C) Edinburgh Zoo (D) Sweetie (E) Yang Guang (F) China
Answer: (F)
Explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Part 3. Exercise
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump is getting a taste for pulling the trigger. In just the last week, the rookie commander in chief has presided over the use of some of the most powerful weaponry in the US arsenal, sending a signal that he is one President who relishes ordering the use of deadly force. It's clear that he believes Washington and the rest of the world are watching. First, Trump dispatched Tomahawk cruise missiles to slam into an airfield belonging to President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government forces, to punish what the US says is their use of chemical weapons. On Thursday, the military dropped one of its most powerful non-nuclear bombs -- a 21,600-pound behemoth -- over a warren of ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan. Afghan officials said 36 militants were killed in the strike.Trump launched cruise missiles in SyriaAnd the military dropped a "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan
Questions:The political payoff _ is reaping from the last week of military action comes at a low risk. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Donald Trump (D) US (E) Tomahawk (F) Bashar al (G) Assad (H) Syrian (I) ISIS (J) Afghanistan (K) Afghan (L) Syria
Answer: | (C) |
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
. a track and field long jumper from the florida gators dressed in blue and orange
OPTIONS:
- prepares to make his run while other participants, coaches and officials congregate around the track and field course.
- stands on an arena and prepares to take his jump.
- throws a long pole throwing his javelin and the human girl standing in front of him catch isn't very happy with him so the females run on ahead and the male athlete turns to leave with a look of embarrassment.
- gloves, beings and credits roll in the video..
Next sentence: prepares to make his run while other participants, coaches and officials congregate around the track and field course.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to apply plumber's putty
Purchase plumbers putty at a home supply or hardware store.
Most local or chain stores, like home depot, should carry plumbers putty. Different brands use slightly different ingredients.
OPTIONS:
- Read the instructions carefully to determine the best variety for you, and check to see if the label says " safe " on the back. Use plumber's putty to enter cracks.
- However, you should pick a putty that matches the color of your hardware and work with it instead of picking something from nature. Rinse and dry your hardware and handle the plumbers putty.
- Decide if you need clay or concrete according to how much paint you desire. Some plumbers waste much more clay than others, but concrete clay usually yields the paint.
- Putty marked as stain-free should be safe to use on any material. Ask someone in the store if you have specific questions about your project..
Next sentence: Putty marked as stain-free should be safe to use on any material. Ask someone in the store if you have specific questions about your project.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to change your mercruiser water separating fuel filter
Turn off your battery switches or disconnect the boat's batteries.
Turn off your fuel supply valve (if equipped).
Position a fan to ventilate the bilge and work area.
OPTIONS:
- Inspect the engine for leaks from the spark plug. Before you start talking to your mechanic that did the last block of engine fuel, replace the plugs with new fuel plugs (battery clips are black).
- Place some absorbent towels under the filter to catch any spilt fuel. Using a fuel filter wrench, remove the old fuel filter.
- Remove the cabling trim above the door. Remove the exhaust pan to expose the bilge to the air flowing through the hose on the bottom.
- Find an extra tank and replace with spare fuel. Check your tank's filter (if equipped): If it's missing an extra tank or is bearing too much weight too fast..
Next sentence: Place some absorbent towels under the filter to catch any spilt fuel. Using a fuel filter wrench, remove the old fuel filter.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A cowboy riding a horse exits a gate. he
OPTIONS:
- rides past the horse chasing a calf.
- walks over to the stall of the horse.
- lassos a young calf and gets back on the horse.
- ropes a little calf with a lasso..
Next sentence: | ropes a little calf with a lasso. |
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Jake Roberts is an English film editor. He is best known for his works on films "Citadel" (2012), "Starred Up" (2013), "The Riot Club" (2014) and "Brooklyn" (2015). For "Hell or High Water" (2016), Roberts was nominated (among several honors) for an Independent Spirit Award and the Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 89th Academy Awards.
Sentence: Jake Roberts is an british film editor. He is best known for his works on films "Citadel" (2012), "Starred Up" (2013), "The Riot Club" (2014) and "Brooklyn" (2015). For "Hell or High Water" (2016)
Output: No
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
South Coast United Soccer Club is an Australian association football club from the city of Wollongong, New South Wales. The club was founded in 1984 by Wollongong's Croatian Australian community. The club plays in the Illawarra Premier League. The club is located at Kembla Grange and plays its home games at Ian McLennan Park.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: The club was founded before 1985.
****
Answer:
Yes
[Q]: The Wallace Park in Lisburn, Northern Ireland was bequeathed to the people of Lisburn by Sir Richard Wallace. It is a pleasant park with tree-lined walkways. There is a number of football pitches, tennis courts, a duck pond and a children's adventure play area. The grounds of Lisburn Cricket Club are in the centre of the park where Cecil Walker MBE is the groundman. Wallace Park is a popular tourist destination. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: Goran Bezina (born 21 March 1980 in Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia) is a Swiss professional ice hockey defenseman who is currently playing for Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL). He previously played for the Arizona Coyotes in the National Hockey League (NHL), Medveščak Zagreb of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and HC Fribourg-Gottéron.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Goran Bezina is over 50 years old"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: The Istanbul University Observatory stands next to other historical buildings aside from the Beyazıt Tower.
The Istanbul University Observatory (Turkish: "İstanbul Üniversitesi Gözlemevi" ) is a ground-based astronomical observatory operated by the Astronomy and Space Sciences Department at Istanbul University's Faculty of Science. Established in 1936, it is situated next to the historic Beyazıt Tower within the main campus of the university at Beyazıt Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Vance had his kids with his wife
Chris Vance (born May 1, 1962) is an American politician, a two-term member of the King County Council and a former member of the Washington State Legislature. Vance is also a former chair of the Washington State Republican Party. He and his wife Ann raised their son and daughter in Auburn, Washington. Vance lost his U.S. Senate bid to Patty Murray in 2016.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Q: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN) Few might have expected that four months into his term President Donald Trump would find himself addressing a room of Muslim leaders after a night surrounded by dancing, drumming Saudi men. But there he was Sunday, standing at the front of a vast reception hall, declaring Islam one of the world's great religions while encouraging leaders to disavow terrorists. And there he was Saturday night, swaying to rhythmic lyrics in Arabic, only a year after deriding Islam as a religion based in hatred and vowing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States. Ensconced within the presidential bubble on his first foreign trip, Trump is regularly finding the view from inside is often far different than from out. It's a lesson most presidents learn sooner or later. For Trump, who ran as an outsider promising to explode political norms, the adjustment appears more abrupt.Trump delivered a major address to Arab leaders SundayHe used softened rhetoric compared to his campaign
Questions:It may have been the most consequential speech of _'s young presidency, offering a pathway for his still-evolving foreign policy doctrine and setting a benchmark for which he will be judged in the global fight against terrorism. (A) Riyadh (B) Saudi Arabia (C) CNN (D) Donald Trump (E) Muslim (F) Saudi (G) Islam (H) Arabic (I) Muslims (J) United States (K) Arab
A: | (D) |
People usually watch for weather forecast in the morning before going out. People can change plans of going out sometimes in case of bad weather. Hiking is an outdoor activity.
This justifies what answer for what question? Q & A: | The people changed their plans after watching the morning news. What were they going to do?
Options:
- drink coffee
- go hiking
- group objects
- make babies
- pay bills
go hiking |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
One example: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild. (A) Tian Tian (B) UK (C) Edinburgh Zoo (D) Sweetie (E) Yang Guang (F) China
Solution is here: (F)
Explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Now, solve this: Washington (CNN) With the special election for Alabama's Senate seat less than two weeks away, the candidates appear headed for a photo finish, with Democrat Doug Jones gaining a slight edge over his Republican competitor Roy Moore, according to a new poll out Saturday. Jones is up 3% among likely voters, with 50% to Moore's 47%, according to a Washington Post-Schar School Poll. The survey found that allegations of improper sexual behavior made against Moore in recent weeks factored heavily in the candidate's drooping numbers. On the topic of moral conduct, 53% of voters said Jones had higher standards. Only about a third of those polled said Moore, a former district attorney, former Alabama state Supreme Court justice, and strong proponent of Christianity, has higher moral standards. Moore is perhaps best known for his strident opposition to LGBT rights and Islam and embrace of Christian theocratic principles.Jones is up 3% among likely voters, with 50% to Moore's 47%53% of voters said Jones had higher moral standards
Questions:So it's no surprise we would be down in the _ poll given their commitment to the systematic destruction of Roy Moore," the spokesman said. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Alabama (D) Senate (E) Democrat (F) Doug Jones (G) Republican (H) Roy Moore (I) Jones (J) Moore (K) Schar School Poll (L) Supreme Court (M) Christianity (N) LGBT (O) Islam (P) Christian
Solution: | (A) |
What happens next in this paragraph?
A woman pains a wood box color brown while talking. the woman
OPT: (a). stops painting and talks, then she continues painting. (b). continues to put items on wood. (c). puts the wood box onto a table and gesture the chest and the yellow and white shuts the brown box. (d). stages put another piece of wood in the small box. | (a). |
input hypothesis: Swaay has been sung by Reagan.
Context: Swaay is the debut EP by American band DNCE. The EP was released worldwide on October 23, 2015, by Republic Records. The majority of the EP was co-produced and co-written by lead singer and frontman Joe Jonas. The EP debuted at number 39 on the US "Billboard" 200.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: Dame Nicola Mary Brewer was born in Britain.
Context: Dame Nicola Mary Brewer DCMG is a British diplomat and university administrator. In May 2014 she was appointed Vice-Provost (International) at University College London. She is a non-executive director of Aggreko. Brewer was British High Commissioner to South Africa from 2009 to 2013.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: The Perfect Gift was filmed in the eastern United States.
Context: The Perfect Gift is a 2009 spinoff of the 2005 Christian drama movie "The Perfect Stranger", and its first sequel, "Another Perfect Stranger". It stars Christina Fougnie, Amy Hess, Matt Wallace, and Jefferson Moore once again as Jesus Christ. It was filmed almost entirely in Kentucky, where the first two movies in the series were not.
true or false: Yes
input hypothesis: Refried beans are cooked with butter.
Context: Refried beans (Spanish: "frijoles refritos") is a dish of cooked and mashed beans and is a traditional staple of Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, although each cuisine has a different approach when making the dish. Refried beans are also popular in many other Latin American countries.
true or false: | It's impossible to say |
Answer the following question: Jack London had endured more hardships by the age of twenty-one than most people experience in a lifetime. His struggles developed in him sympathy for the working class and a lasting dislike of hard work and provided inspiration for his career as a writer. London grew up in San Francisco in extreme poverty. At an early age, he left school and supported himself through a succession of un skilled jobs ----working as a paper boy, in bowling alleys, on ice wagons, and in canneries and mills. Despite working long hours at these jobs, London was able to read constantly, borrowing travel and adventure books from the library. The books London read inspired him to travel, and his job experiences led him to become active in fighting for the fights of workers. He sailed to Japan on a journey aiming at catching seals and joined a cross-country protest march with a group of unemployed workers. After being arrested for vagrancy near Buffalo, New York, London decided to educate himself and reshape his life. He quickly completed high school and entered the University of California. After only one term, however, the appeal of fortune and adventure proved uncontrollable. London gave up his studies and traveled to the Alaskan Yukon in 1897 in search of gold. Jack London was among the first of these miners. He may have searched for more than gold, however. London once commented, " True, the new region was mostly poor; but its several hundred thousand square miles of coldness at least gave breathing space to those who else would have choked at home." Although he was unsuccessful as a miner, London's experiences in Alaska taught him about the human desire for wealth and power and about humankind's inability to control the forces of nature. While in Alaska, London also absorbed memories and stories that would make him known one hundred years later. Once back in California, London became determined to earn a living as a writer. He rented a typewriter and worked up to fifteen hours a day, spinning his Alaskan adventures into short... _ made Jack London reconsider his life in the future. A) His job experience B) The books he read C) Being arrested D) Long-hour work
Answer: | C |
For this chain-of-thought reasoning and answer, what was the question?
Hard work is an activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose of result with a great deal of effort or endurance. The father was sick of his lazy son; he did encourage hard work in him from there on out.
A: hard work | Q: The father was sick of his lazy son, what did he encourage in him from there on out?
Options:
- hard work
- active
- energetic
- productive
- business |
Definition: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: What reform to public education has had the least positive effect on educational outcomes?, Context: The K-12 and higher education reform programs of the Gates Foundation have been criticized by some education professionals, parents, and researchers because they have driven the conversation on education reform to such an extent that they may marginalize researchers who do not support Gates' predetermined policy preferences. Several Gates-backed policies such as small schools, charter schools, and increasing class sizes have been expensive and disruptive, but some studies indicate they have not improved educational outcomes and may have caused harm. Peer reviewed scientific studies at Stanford find that Charter Schools do not systematically improve student performance
Output: | Charter Schools |
instruction:
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
question:
The kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units ( SI ) .
answer:
The kilogram ( also kilogramme ) is the base unit of mass in the metric system , formally the International System of Units ( SI ) , having the unit symbol kg .
question:
The Washburn School of Law was created in 1903 .
answer:
Formed in 1903 the Washburn School of Law was one of the first in the country to have a legal clinic where students are able to actively practice the legal profession .
question:
The President of the Council of Ministers ( Polish : " Prezes Rady Ministro ́ w " ) is the leader of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland .
answer:
| The President of the Council of Ministers ( Polish : " Prezes Rady Ministro ́ w " ) , colloquially referred to as the Prime Minister ( Polish : " premier " ) , is the leader of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland .
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Q: Having spent two and a half years in China over several visits, I don't remember ever going through a phase we in the United States call "cultural shock". This period of difficulty in adjusting to a new culture would probably have set in during my semester at Peking University. Of course, this is not to say that I didn't notice any differences between the American and Chinese cultures upon my arrival at Peking University, I did notice the differences. Looking back, I remember one of the first differences I noticed: Chinese universities are surrounded by walls. To an American, this is one of the most striking aspects of a Chinese university which immediately sets it apart from an American campus. Having grown up in the United States, I had never seen a university surrounded by high, cement walls. My idea of a university, based on having seen scores of them in different states of the U.S., was a place of life and learning, an inseparable part of the community in which it was located, open not only to the students of the school itself, but also fully accessible to students from other schools and to the broader public. My idea of a university was that it was a center of cultural life, a resource for the entire community. In all my twenty-one years, it had never occurred to me that a school would have a wall around it. Walls enclose and separate; schools expand and integrate . _ I asked a Chinese friend if all Chinese universities have walls around them. "You know, I have never really thought about it. I guess so. I guess all Chinese schools have walls around them, not just universities." "Why?" I asked, "What's the point?" "I don't know. To protect us, I suppose." "From whom?" "I don't know. Don't you have walls around your schools in the United States?" I thought carefully before answering. "No, I've never seen or heard of a university encircled by a wall." My Chinese friend seemed puzzled. Walls around schools came to strike me as more than just an architectural difference between the United States and China.... What did the author's friend feel about the walls around universities? A) He thought it a good idea to have walls encircling schools. B) He was shocked that American universities are not enclosed. C) He thought they were necessary to protect students from being hurt. D) He thought the difference between two countries is only architectural styles.
A: B
Q: We are not who we think we are. The American self-image is spread with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the United States as a land of unlimited possibility, not so much a classless society but as a place where class is mutable--a place where brains, energy and ambition are what counts, not the circumstances of one's birth. The Economic Mobility Project, an ambitious research led by Pew Charitable Trusts, looked at the economic fortunes of a large group of families over time, comparing the income of parents in the late 1960s with the income of their children in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here is the finding: "The 'rags to riches' story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the top. That is right, just 6 percent of children born to parents who ranked in the bottom of the study sample, in terms of income, were able to bootstrap their way into the top . Meanwhile, an incredible 42 percent of children born into that lowest are still stuck at the bottom, having been unable to climb a single rung of the income ladder. It is noted that even in Britain---a nation we think of as burdened with a hidebound class system-children who are born poor have a better chance of moving up. When the studies were released, most reporters focused on the finding that African-Americans born to middle-class or upper middle-class families are earning slightly less, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than did their parents. One of the studies indicates, in fact, that most of the financial gains white families have made in the past three decades can be attributed to the entry of white women into the labor force. This is much less true for African-Americans. The picture that emerges from all the quintiles, correlations and percentages is of a nation in which, overall, "the current generation of adults is better off than the previous one", as one of the studies notes. The median income of the families in the sample group was... What did the Economic Mobility Project find in its research? A) Children from low-income families are unable to bootstrap their way to the top. B) Hollywood actors and actresses are upwardly mobile from rags to riches. C) The rags to riches story is more fiction than reality. D) The rags to riches story is only true for a small minority of whites.
A: C
Q: When I was six, dad brought home a dog one day, who was called "Brownie". My brothers and I all loved Brownie and did different things with her. One of us would walk her, another would feed her, then there were baths, playing catch and many other games. Brownie, in return, loved each other and every one of us. One thing that most touched my heart was that she would go to whoever was sick and just be with them. We always felt better when she was around. One day , as I was getting her food, she chewed up one of dad's shoes, which had to be thrown away in the end. I knew dad would be mad and I had to let her know what she did was wrong. When I looked at her and said, "Bad girl," she looked down at the ground and then went and hid. I saw a tear in her eyes. Brownie turned out to be more than just our family pet. She went everywhere with us. People would stop and ask if they could pet her. Of course she'd let anyone pet her. She was just the most lovable dog. There were many times when we'd be out walking and a small child would come over and pull on her hair. She never barked or tried to get away. Funny thing is she would smile. This frightened people because they thought she was showing her teeth. Far from the truth, she loved everyone. Why does the author say that Brownie was more than just a family pet? A) She was treated as a member of the family. B) She played games with anyone she liked. C) She was loved by everybody she met. D) She went everywhere with the family.
A: C
Q: Health officials issued a waring over common energy-saving lghtbulbs after research showed some types could potentially harm the skin and may even raise the risk of cancer. A study by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) found that some eco-friendly lightbuulbs release levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation that are above recognized safety limits. The agency urged people who work with lamps nearby to avoid spending more than one hour within a foot of the eco-friendly bulbs. The warning was directed at those using desk lamps for long periods, such as jewellery makers, and others who might have lights close to their faces, such as car mechanics. John O'Hagan, a scientist at the HPA's centre for radiation, chemical and environmental dangers, began tests on the ligthbulbs after patient groups raised concern about them. Among the groups were patients with a skin disease called lupus, which makes people highly sensitive to light. The tests measured UV light from the lamps and found the highest levels of UV radiation, measured 2cm from the lightbulbs, were _ to being outside in direct sunlight in the summer. The most immediate risk from the lightbulbs is a reddening of the skin similar to sunburn, but there is also a small increased risk of skin cancer associated with this, again similar to that of sunburn. The risk of health problems from the lightbulbs was not so high that people should remove them from their homes. People are advised to avoid using open lightbulbs for long close work until the problem is sorted out. It has confirmed that the government will not be reviewing its strategy on introducing energy efficient lightbulbs. In order not to be harmed by the UV radiation from some lightbulbs, people should _ . A) stop using eco-friendly lightbulbs at home B) avoid using open lightbulbs for long close work C) take care not to expose their skin to direct sunlight D) urge the government to ban the use of lightbulbs
| A: B |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
It was the first time that I had really ever been around Barrie Callahan, so she strikes me -that memory strikes me because my mother had known her previously. And she was speaking about the textbook, just questioning them. I don't remember her exact words.
Hypothesis: They had talked to Barrie Callahan, but never in person
Pick from:
+Yes.
+It's impossible to say.
+No. | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
Rickon Stark -- As the armies prepare for battle outside Winterfell, Ramsay brings out Rickon and orders him to run to Jon as one of his sadistic ``games'', shooting arrows at Rickon in order to lure Jon into the open. Jon charges out to save Rickon, but Rickon is shot through the heart and dies almost instantly. In the aftermath of the ensuing battle, Rickon's body is recovered and Jon buries him in the crypt, alongside Ned's remains.
did rickon stark die in game of thrones
Price/cash flow ratio -- For example, if the stock price for two companies is $25 per share and one company has a cash flow of $5 per share (25/5=5) and the other company has a cash flow of $10 per share (25/10=2.5), then if all else is equal, the company with the higher cash flow (lower ratio, P/CF=2.5) has the better value.
is a high price to cash flow ratio good
Hex key -- A hex key, Allen key or Allen wrench is a tool used to drive bolts and screws with hexagonal sockets in their heads.
| is a hex key the same as an allen key
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Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. It is best known for creating thrill rides and roller coasters worldwide. The Intamin brand name is an abbreviation for "international amusement installations". The company has offices throughout the world including three in Europe, three in Asia and two in the United States.
Hypothesis: there are intamin in multiple continents.
Choices:
a). Yes.
b). It's impossible to say.
c). No. | a). |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild. (A) Tian Tian (B) UK (C) Edinburgh Zoo (D) Sweetie (E) Yang Guang (F) China
Solution: (F)
Why? This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
New input: Al-Qayyara, Iraq (CNN) Menacing black smoke hangs over the town of al-Qayyara. The air here is poison. Children with blackened hands and soot-stained faces play beneath the toxic plumes. The early afternoon sun is so eclipsed by the haze that day seems like endless twilight. The dark filth coating the landscape and choking residents' lungs comes from oil wells sabotaged and set alight by ISIS in August. Engineers and firefighters have been battling the flames for 100 days now. When CNN first visited al-Qayyara back in early October, they had tackled six fires with nine to go. But the real extent of the damage had yet to be determined.Town of al-Qayyara, south of Mosul, is awash with toxic plumesISIS set oil wells ablaze in bid to hamper Iraqi forces from advancingWhile several battle to quell fires, residents breathe poisonous fumes
Questions:All while the 15,000 residents of al-_ continue to live in an environment they know is damaging their health, potentially for years to come. (A) Al (B) Qayyara (C) Iraq (D) CNN (E) ISIS (F) Town of al (G) Mosul (H) Iraqi
Solution: | (B) |
Teacher: In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Property tax -- Property tax or 'house tax' is a local tax on buildings, along with appurtenant land. It is and imposed on the Possessor (not the custodian of property as per 1978, 44th amendment of constitution). It resembles the US-type wealth tax and differs from the excise-type UK rate. The tax power is vested in the states and is delegated to local bodies, specifying the valuation method, rate band, and collection procedures. The tax base is the annual rental value (ARV) or area-based rating. Owner-occupied and other properties not producing rent are assessed on cost and then converted into ARV by applying a percentage of cost, usually four percent. Vacant land is generally exempt. Central government properties are exempt. Instead a 'service charge' is permissible under executive order. Properties of foreign missions also enjoy tax exemption without requiring reciprocity. The tax is usually accompanied by service taxes, e.g., water tax, drainage tax, conservancy (sanitation) tax, lighting tax, all using the same tax base. The rate structure is flat on rural (panchayat) properties, but in the urban (municipal) areas it is mildly progressive with about 80% of assessments falling in the first two brackets.
Solution: is house tax and property tax are same
Reason: The question generated asks whether the house tax and property tax are the same and can be answered by reading the passage. Additionally, it has a binary answer and hence the generated question is correct.
Now, solve this instance: Hyundai Genesis Coupe -- The Hyundai Genesis Coupé is a rear-wheel drive sports coupe from Hyundai Motor Company, released on October 13, 2008 for the Korean market. It is Hyundai's first rear-wheel drive sports coupe, and shares its basic platform with the Hyundai Genesis luxury sedan.
Student: | is a hyundai genesis coupe a sports car |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to clean microsuede
Check the labels.
Furniture labels will often provide you with a code that tells you how to clean-and how not to clean-your furniture upholstery. Microsuede will generally have one of three labels :
W, which means wash with water-based cleaners.
A: S, which means wash with solvent-based cleaners. Sw, which means you can use either water-based or solvent-based cleaners.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
People are jump roping in a gymnasium. People are jump roping outside in a park. people
A: are dancing and jump roping on a stage.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
Woman is standing in a woom wallpapering a wall. Woman grabs wallpaper paste from a buckt and the materials are shown. the woman
A: measure the wallpaper and cut it.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A man is kneeling down in the dirt over a a silver bowl that is full of soap. In the large bowl, he begins to move a white shirt as if he is washing it. finally
A: | , he stops and takes a hose to finish rinsing the water. |
Q: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker blamed President Barack Obama on Sunday for the attacks on police officers by stating the president has contributed to the anti-police environment in the country. In an interview with CNN on 'State of the Union,' Walker said that Obama has not offered enough support for police who are 'overwhelmingly doing the right think every day.' 'I think his absence of leadership, of speaking out on this issue' has contributed to police being killed, the Republican presidential candidate said. 'We need a president who first and foremost says that law enforcement professionals across this country are doing the job,' Walker stated.In an interview with CNN on Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate said Obama had not offered enough 'support' to police officersHe claimed Obama's 'absence of leadership of speaking out' on the issue had contributed to several police officers being killed in recent weeks
Question:Host Jake Tapper countered _ and said he has heard the president praise police officers.
A: | Scott Walker |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A small group of people are seen pulling mulch into a bin when another is seen raking around the tree. they | continue to scrape out of the mulch while measuring out the area and leads into one cutting the grass around the tree. |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
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Question: The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America. It consists of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and forms military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out. All five armed services are among the seven uniformed services of the United States.
Answer: how many branches of the armed forces are there
Question: The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices, any six of whom would constitute a quorum. Justices are nominated by the President of the United States and appointed after confirmation by the United States Senate. Justices of the Supreme Court have life tenure and receive a salary which is set at $255,500 per year for the chief justice and at $244,400 per year for each associate justice as of 2014.
Answer: how many justice are in the supreme court
Question: In traditional festive legend, Santa Claus's reindeer pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve. The commonly cited names of the eight reindeer are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. They are based on those used in the 1823 poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (commonly called 'The Night Before Christmas'), arguably the basis of the reindeers' popularity.
Answer: | what are the reindeers names on santa's sleigh
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TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
PROBLEM: What is an opposite result of an idea posted here?, Context: Greek drama exemplifies the earliest form of drama of which we have substantial knowledge. Tragedy, as a dramatic genre, developed as a performance associated with religious and civic festivals, typically enacting or developing upon well-known historical or mythological themes. Tragedies generally presented very serious themes. With the advent of newer technologies, scripts written for non-stage media have been added to this form. War of the Worlds (radio) in 1938 saw the advent of literature written for radio broadcast, and many works of Drama have been adapted for film or television. Conversely, television, film, and radio literature have been adapted to printed or electronic media.
SOLUTION: television, film, and radio literature have been adapted to printed or electronic media
PROBLEM: What is the second largest ocean in the world?, Context: The Philadelphia dialect, which is spread throughout the Delaware Valley and South Jersey, is part of Mid-Atlantic American English, and as such it is identical in many ways to the Baltimore dialect. Unlike the Baltimore dialect, however, the Philadelphia accent also shares many similarities with the New York accent. Thanks to over a century of linguistics data collected by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia dialect under sociolinguist William Labov has been one of the best-studied forms of American English.[f]
SOLUTION: Atlantic
PROBLEM: What does the FDA oversee?, Context: In the United States, new pharmaceutical products must be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as being both safe and effective. This process generally involves submission of an Investigational New Drug filing with sufficient pre-clinical data to support proceeding with human trials. Following IND approval, three phases of progressively larger human clinical trials may be conducted. Phase I generally studies toxicity using healthy volunteers. Phase II can include pharmacokinetics and dosing in patients, and Phase III is a very large study of efficacy in the intended patient population. Following the successful completion of phase III testing, a New Drug Application is submitted to the FDA. The FDA review the data and if the product is seen as having a positive benefit-risk assessment, approval to market the product in the US is granted.
SOLUTION: | new pharmaceutical products
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged calm and said Americans should have "no concerns" after North Korea and President Donald Trump traded fiery threats, insisting Wednesday he doesn't believe there is "any imminent threat."
"Americans should sleep well at night," Tillerson said.
In more tranquil terms, Tillerson sought to explain the thinking behind Trump's warning to Pyongyang that it would be "met with fire and fury like the world has never seen" if it made more threats to the United States. Tillerson said Trump was trying to send a strong and clear message to North Korea's leader so that there wouldn't be "any miscalculation."
"What the president is doing is sending a strong message to North Korea in language that Kim Jong Un can understand, because he doesn't seem to understand diplomatic language," Tillerson said. "I think the president just wanted to be clear to the North Korean regime on the U.S. unquestionable ability to defend itself, will defend itself and its allies."
The comments put Tillerson once again in the role of translating the president's aggressive rhetoric into more diplomatic terms, and of working to minimize the chances of public panic. But Trump was not softening his remarks. While on vacation in New Jersey early Wednesday, he retweeted a video of him issuing the threat a day earlier, then wrote on Twitter that his "first order" as president had been to renovate and modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal
"It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before...." Trump wrote.
The mixed messages from Tillerson and Trump put the onus on the North Koreans to decide how to interpret the latest missives from the U.S. Still, Tillerson insisted the developments didn't suggest the U.S. was moving closer to a military option to dealing with the crisis.
"Nothing that I have seen and nothing that I know of would indicate that the situation has dramatically changed in the last 24 hours," Tillerson said.
He said North Korea's escalating threats showed it was feeling the pressure from a successful U.S. strategy.
Tillerson spoke to reporters aboard his plane as he returned from Malaysia to Washington, stopping along the way in Guam. Hours earlier, North Korea's army had said in a statement it was exploring plans for attacking the tiny U.S. territory, which houses U.S. military bases and is a common refueling stop for U.S. government aircraft traversing the Pacific Ocean.
Tillerson said he never considered re-routing his trip from Malaysia so as to avoid stopping in Guam. Though he insisted there was no imminent threat, he noted that even if there were, "the North Korean missile capability can point in many directions, so Guam is not the only place that would be under threat."
Though it's extremely unlikely the North would risk annihilation by pre-emptively attacking American citizens, the escalating rhetoric has heightened concern that a miscalculation could spiral out of control and lead to military conflict — a concern especially acute in Guam, residents of the territory said.
Tillerson, who spent the past days in Asia working the North Korea conflict, said he didn't believe a new diplomatic strategy was needed. To the contrary, he said the latest threat from the North suggested the current strategy was working. After months of frustration over China's reluctance to pressure Pyongyang economically, the U.S. on Saturday secured a unanimous U.N. Security Council vote to authorize sweeping new sanctions that target one-third of the North's exports.
"The pressure is starting to show," Tillerson said. "I think that's why the rhetoric coming out of Pyongyang is beginning to become louder and more threatening. Whether we've got them backed into a corner or not is difficult to say, but diplomatically, you never like to have someone in a corner without a way for them to get out."
To that end, Tillerson said there was still an off-ramp available to Pyongyang: A return to negotiations with the U.S., a step that Tillerson has previously said can happen only if Kim Jong Un's government gives up its nuclear aspirations, starting with an extended pause in missile tests.
"Talks," Tillerson said when asked if North Korea had a way out. "Talks, with the right expectation of what those talks will be about."
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Reach Josh Lederman on Twitter at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP ||||| North Korea has freed a Canadian pastor who was serving a life sentence of hard labour, one day after a Canadian delegation arrived to negotiate his release.
KCNA, North Korea's official news agency, said on Wednesday that Hyeon Soo Lim had been "released on sick bail… from the humanitarian viewpoint."
Lim, who is also known as Rim Hyon Su, served as pastor at one of the largest churches in Canada, Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Mississauga, Ont. He was sentenced to hard labour for life in December 2015 for what North Korea says was an attempt to overthrow the regime.
A spokesperson for his family — his wife and son live in the Toronto area — confirmed the news of his release in a statement to the media.
The 62-year-old, who was born in South Korea, is reportedly in poor health. He is said to need medication to treat high blood pressure.
CBC News reported on Tuesday that Daniel Jean, the national security adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had arrived in North Korea to negotiate his release. The last attempt at such talks was made in late 2016. Canada does not have an embassy in North Korea, and has advised against all travel there.
The latest negotiations got underway amid heightened tensions between Pyongyang and Washington over the former's missile and nuclear weapons tests. The isolated state said it is considering an attack against the U.S. territory of Guam after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened it with "fire and fury like the world has never seen."
Church members 'so happy'
Lim's church has said he visited North Korea more than 100 times since 1997 and helped set up an orphanage and nursing home. Family and friends have previously said he was visiting those projects at the time of his arrest in February, 2015.
Word of Lim's release drew members of his congregation to their church, west of Toronto, Wednesday morning.
Charles Baik, an associate pastor with the church's English ministry, told The Canadian Press that members of the church are ecstatic at the prospect of Lim's return.
"We're so happy he's been released," Baik said from outside the church.
Baik said Lim's ordeal would not deter the church from future humanitarian projects in the country.
"Missions will never stop, no matter where they may be," he said.
Others detained
Lim was arrested on charges that included trying to use religion to destroy the North Korean system, disseminating negative propaganda about the North and helping U.S. and South Korean authorities to abduct North Korean citizens.
One month into his sentence, Lim told CNN he spent eight hours a day, six days a week, digging holes for apple trees in the labour camp's orchard. He said he had not seen any other prisoners.
North Korea released another foreign prisoner, U.S. tourist Otto Warmbier, in June, though he died just days later. (Kim Kwang Hyon/Associated Press)
North Korea released another foreign prisoner, U.S. tourist Otto Warmbier, in June. Warmbier had been sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years' hard labour for subversion but arrived home in a coma and died just days later. Pyongyang blamed the 22-year-old's condition on botulism.
Heather Nauert, a U.S. State Department spokesperson, was asked about Lim's release at a news briefing in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday as it pertains to the three Americans known to be currently detained in North Korea.
Nauert said there was no update on their status, and that the U.S. will continue to work for their release, with the assistance of the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang.
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Solution: | After a spate of doom-and-gloom headlines on North Korea, two more positive ones emerged Wednesday morning: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to dial down the rhetoric and Pyongyang released a Canadian pastor. Tillerson, speaking to reporters aboard his plane as he returned to DC from Malaysia, made a point to say he sees no "imminent threat" from North Korea, per the AP. "Americans should sleep well at night," he said, adding, “Nothing that I have seen and nothing that I know of would indicate that the situation has dramatically changed in the last 24 hours." Asked about President Trump's "fire and fury" threat to North Korea, Tillerson said it's important to consider the audience it was aimed at. "What the president is doing is sending a strong message to North Korea in language that Kim Jong Un can understand, because he doesn’t seem to understand diplomatic language," Tillerson said. Trump, he added, wanted to make clear that the US won't hesitate to defend itself or its allies. The North, meanwhile, released a 62-year-old Canadian pastor who has been held since 2015, reports the CBC. North Korean state media said Rim Hyon Su, also known as Hyeon Soo Lim, was freed on "sick bail." The South Korean native, pastor of the large Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Ontario, had been sentenced to hard labor for life in December 2015 after Pyongyang accused of him trying to overthrow the regime. |
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In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
(CNN) -- Ever since Myo's head was smashed into a block of ice he's had trouble hearing. The Burmese man, whose name has been changed for his safety, was on a fishing boat in Thailand last year when it happened. He had left Myanmar, also known as Burma, thinking he was going to work in a factory processing pineapple. But when he arrived in Thailand, he says, his recruiters sold him to a boat captain for the equivalent of around $430. After being held on the vessel for 10 months, working against his will and suffering regular beatings, he finally managed to escape.U.S. says Thailand isn't doing enough to fight human traffickingThailand could face sanctions as a result of State Department's annual reportThailand's ambassador to the U.S. says "significant efforts" have been made to tackle problemCountries need to show "results" not only promises, State Department says
Questions:It echoes numerous other accounts told by trafficking survivors to international media and human rights groups in _ in recent years. (A) CNN (B) Myo (C) Burmese (D) Thailand (E) Myanmar (F) Burma (G) U.S. (H) State Department
Output: | (D) |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
Isabelle Guérin (born 1961) is a French ballet dancer. She was a member of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1978. In 1985, she received the title of étoile from Rudolf Nureyev. John Rockwell has described Guérin and Laurent Hilaire as "two of the Opera Ballet's greatest stars". She danced classical and modern repertoires until her retirement in 2001.
Hypothesis: Guerin received many titles for her exceptional dancing ability. | It's impossible to say |
Imagine a question and stream-of-consciousness explanation for which this is the answer: tomales bay | Question: Where could you find a shark before it was caught?
Options:
- pool hall
- tomales bay
- marine museum
- business
- desert
Stream-of-consciousness: Sharks can be found in tomales bay before they are caught. Sharks live in ocean waters and bay. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
{ { lang } } centers on a man who roams the street night after night . Hidden under his hat and rain jacket he strives for one goal : to find the culprit - the one whom he can make responsible for his suffering . If he wanted to , he could confront him , but he lacks the audacity to do so . He considers suicide , but his courage fails him once again . The options do not appear to present him with a way out and would not personally satisfy him . Finley blames not himself , but only others . In this case he looks to his girlfriend , Violet . He drowns Violet in the bath whilst giving her a massage , Which had become a common ritual for them . On one hand he does this out of malice , on the other to be close to her just one more time . Through this action he wishes to break the growing distance he has come to feel between them , though the actual outcome is the infliction of the greatest possible loneliness , as he turns into a monster . Finley only realizes with hindsight that his misdeeds far surpass those of Violet . <sep>Who does Finley think is the cause of his current suffering?<sep>Violet
Output: | Yes |
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