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Generate the answer for a given question. The question requires common knowledge of English. Make sure that the answer is in detail, long, consistent with the context, and requires general knowledge of English. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question. Give a proper explanation to answer, and if necessary, provide the definition of various terms. And conclude your answer if it's long. If you have used other resources (e.g., Merriam Webster's.) to answer the question, include citations in your answer. You don't need to paraphrase the context of your resources, but make sure that your answer is consistent and complete.
English isn't my mother tongue, and when we recently talked to a native speaker (during some company audit), he pointed out that the plural word 'trainings' is actually wrong (he pointed that it is a very common mistake and was almost amused by it). I couldn't understand why and wondered what the correct plural of 'training' would be. Online Dictionaries/Thesaurus don't answer it, so it's probably another opinion-based statement. I haven't found a source to back it up, though.
Output: | Training is both countable and uncountable. Usually, referring to a process, it is uncountable and has no plural. It is sometimes used to mean 'a specific training event', and is then countable, and has the plural 'trainings'. The OED has examples of this use going back to 1578, with the plural recorded from 1598. |
In this task you're given a question and you have to paraphrase the question to create the output question while retaining the meaning of the original question.
Q: How do I know your gay?
A: | How do you know if you're gay? |
Question: Sentence 1: Pull a horse.
Sentence 2: Pull weeds.
Does pull mean the same thing in these two sentences?
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Answer: different meanings
Question: Sentence 1: There was not a scrap left.
Sentence 2: She jotted it on a scrap of paper.
Does scrap mean the same thing in these two sentences?
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Answer: the same meaning
Question: Sentence 1: The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in.
Sentence 2: These ugly billboards have to go!
Does go mean the same thing in these two sentences?
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Answer: | different meanings |
Given the below context: The film opens with two small-time crooks Tommy Uva and Rosie DeToma getting high and robbing a florist on Valentine's Day. Tommy holds up the cashier with a pistol while Rosie waited in the car she inherited from her father. Tommy is arrested and sent to prison for 18 months. In the meantime, Rosie gets a job at a debt collection agency run by Dave Lovell, who went to jail for bilking major companies out of $800,000 through fraudulent invoices. Lovell reformed his life and mainly hires ex-cons at his firm. He is happy to give Tommy a job and a second chance. Tommy is restless and instead of following the call script, he often counsels people on how to defraud Lovell's company. When Tommy sees some mafiosos in his neighborhood, he grows enraged. He calls them fat old guys living off their reputation, and he resents the way the mafia treated his father. Over the course of the film, it is revealed that Tommy's father started his shop with a mafia loan, and he suffered frequent beatings when he was late with payments. Tommy's mother and brother still run the shop, but his mother blames Tommy's criminal activity for breaking her husband's heart and leading to his death. Whereas, Tommy blames his father's death completely on the humiliation he suffered at the hands of the mafia. Tommy skips work one day to attend the trial of John Gotti. He watches Sammy the Bull's testimony, and he perks up when Sammy explains that no guns are allowed in mafia social clubs. He cases one of the clubs that Sammy mentioned, and then he pitches the idea to rob the club to Rosie. He explains that it will be safe since no one will have a gun, and that the mafia would never call the cops to report the crime. He gets an Uzi, which he does not know how to use. Rosie reluctantly shows him how to load it, and agrees to the plan. Guess a valid title for it!
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Answer: Rob the Mob
Q: Given the below context: Athens' local music is based primarily in the small downtown area of the northern part of the town. The nightclub 40 Watt Club is among the most famous indie rock venues on the East Coast; the club opened on Halloween in 1978, with a band called Strictly American featuring Curtis Crowe, founder of the club and future member of the band Pylon. Other major music venues in the city include the Georgia Theater, (a converted cinema that hosted both local and touring performers. The Theater burned down in June 2009, but has been fully remodelled into a state of the art music venue reopening in early August 2011), the Caledonia Lounge, the historic Foundry Music Venue (which was originally built in 1850 as an iron foundry), and the UGA Performing Arts Center, home to the Ramsey Concert Hall and the Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. The Morton Theater is a historic venue, a major part of the city's African American community in the early 20th century; it claims to be the only theater from that era remaining in operation.Athens is home to the summer music festival Athfest, AlanFest, the Athens Popfest and the late spring Athens Human Rights Festival and North Georgia Folk Festival. The college radio station WUOG (90.5 FM), the low-power (100.7) FM WPPP-LP and the free weekly Flagpole are the city's most prominent modern music media. Athens has never produced a major local label like many similar indie rock towns; the most important label of the 1970s and 1980s was DB Records, based out of Atlanta, though jangle pop pioneers Kindercore Records and Wuxtry Records were also Athens-based. Athens is home to long-running indie label Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, which has been operating consistently since 1999. Guess a valid title for it!
A: Music of Athens, Georgia
Question: Given the below context: Amyntas III was forced to flee his kingdom in either 393 or 383 BC (based on conflicting accounts), owing to a massive invasion by the Illyrian Dardani led by Bardylis. The pretender to the throne Argaeus ruled in his absence, yet Amyntas III eventually returned to his kingdom with the aid of Thessalian allies. Amyntas III was also nearly overthrown by the forces of the Chalcidian city of Olynthos, but with the aid of Teleutias, brother of the Spartan king Agesilaus II, the Macedonians forced Olynthos to surrender and dissolve their Chalcidian League in 379 BC.Alexander II (r. 370 – 368 BC), son of Eurydice I and Amyntas III, succeeded his father and immediately invaded Thessaly to wage war against the tagus (supreme Thessalian military leader) Alexander of Pherae, capturing the city of Larissa. The Thessalians, desiring to remove both Alexander II and Alexander of Pherae as their overlords, appealed to Pelopidas of Thebes for aid; he succeeded in recapturing Larissa and, in the peace agreement arranged with Macedonia, received aristocratic hostages including Alexander II's brother and future king Philip II (r. 359–336 BC– ). When Alexander was assassinated by his brother-in-law Ptolemy of Aloros, the latter acted as an overbearing regent for Perdiccas III (r. 368 – 359 BC), younger brother of Alexander II, who eventually had Ptolemy executed when reaching the age of majority in 365 BC. The remainder of Perdiccas III's reign was marked by political stability and financial recovery. However, an Athenian invasion led by Timotheus, son of Conon, managed to capture Methone and Pydna, and an Illyrian invasion led by Bardylis succeeded in killing Perdiccas III and 4,000 Macedonian troops in battle. Guess a valid title for it!
Answer: Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Given the below context: A violent thunderstorm strands a couple and child in the gothic English countryside: little Judy, who is traveling with her selfish, uncaring father, David and her rich, callous, arrogant stepmother Rosemary. David only has Judy due to a court order and barely tolerates her presence. After their car is stuck in mud and the rain begins, they find a mansion. After breaking in, they are found by the owners, a kindly older couple, Gabriel and Hilary Hartwicke. Rosemary threw Judy's beloved teddy bear into the bushes while out in the rain, so Gabriel gifts her a new doll, Mr. Punch. They are invited to stay and while eating, Isabel and Enid (two British punk rocker hitchhikers) barge in with the person who picked them up, Ralph. Gabriel reveals himself to be a talented toy maker; their house is filled with dolls, puppets, and many other beautifully detailed and handmade toys. The Hartwickes invite the stranded travelers to join them to stay as guests until the storm ends and show them to their rooms. Guess a valid title for it!
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Answer: | Dolls (1987 film) |
Consider the question. In American society, will a bachelor's degree often include a leap year?
What is the step-by-step reasoning process to arrive at the answer: yes? | Leap years occur every four years. In American society, a bachelor's degree takes about four years. |
Please answer the following question: I know that the answer to the question "When did the Ottoman Empire get Little Walachia back?" is in "After the Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718 the Treaty of Passarowitz confirmed the loss of the Banat, Serbia and "Little Walachia" (Oltenia) to Austria. The Treaty also revealed that the Ottoman Empire was on the defensive and unlikely to present any further aggression in Europe. The Austro-Russian–Turkish War, which was ended by the Treaty of Belgrade in 1739, resulted in the recovery of Serbia and Oltenia, but the Empire lost the port of Azov, north of the Crimean Peninsula, to the Russians. After this treaty the Ottoman Empire was able to enjoy a generation of peace, as Austria and Russia were forced to deal with the rise of Prussia.". Can you tell me what it is?
A: | 1739 |
Problem:
Greg stopped by the courthouse concession stand for a cup of coffee, even though he had already downed four cups at Jane's Diner across the street. The old man behind the counter reached for Greg's dollar with a noticeably shaky hand that looked as though it had held more cigarettes and booze than money in its lifetime. He took his coffee and walked up the stairs to the second floor. There were about fifty people standing in the hallway outside the courtroom making small talk. He recognized a few of them, but was in no mood to start a conversation. Only four more jurors and two alternates were needed. With a little luck, he would soon be sent on his way. The coffee tasted bitter, but he continued to sip on it anyway, just to occupy himself. After a few minutes, a woman walked out of the courtroom and spoke to the crowd in monotone. "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We are ready to get started. We did not get enough jurors yesterday for the criminal trial, so we are going to use part of today's panel for that purpose. Those who are not selected for the criminal trial today must appear tomorrow at 8:00 AM for the civil trial jury selection. "First, I will call the names of the jurors that have already been selected. When I call your name, please go into the courtroom and take your seat in the pews where you sat yesterday. Please sit in the order in which your names are called." "Alexander Littleton… Gail Silestone… " The crowd carefully analyzed each person as he walked through the group and into the courtroom. "Mary McJohnson… William Biscayne … Judy McPhearson… John Nihmbor… Nancy Novelle… and Troy Blockerman." Greg nearly choked on his coffee. Troy Blockerman! That's Cynthia's husband. His blood pressure shot up like a bottle rocket, exploding into a headache. "And now I will call the names of a portion of today's panel. Those whose names are not called will need to stay here in the courthouse since we might still need you today. I will let you know when you can go home. Again, please sit in the order in... According to the above context, answer the following question. Whose blood pressure shot up?
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A: Greg
Problem:
The sweet taste of cold and wood smoke hung in the air. Marlin rode low in the saddle, his shoulders curled against the hungry wind. His hat was pulled down tight and his eyes didn't move as he passed the crude shacks at the edge of town. He tied his horse in front of the saloon, unwinding his long body as if a sudden movement might snap it. He turned down the collar of his greatcoat and checked to make sure his big Army Colt was loose in its holster. The saloon door was a single chunk of white pine, still oozing sap, and he had to put his shoulder to it to force it open. The long room inside was quiet, and not much warmer than the street. Clusters of people sat nursing coffee and drinks, talking quietly if they talked at all. Marlin spotted a few farmers the railroad had brought in from Europe: rounded hats, nervous eyes, skin as red as blood. At the far end of the room a half-dozen cowboys turned over cards with patient boredom. Marlin walked up to the bar. "Whiskey," he said, and when the drink came he tossed it straight down and felt it pull his lips into a grimace. He nodded for a refill. When he turned to face the room they were all watching him. "I'm looking for a man named Kraamer," Marlin said. "Anybody here know of him?" One of the cowboys turned casually and rang the spittoon with a stream of tobacco juice. Marlin knew the long, thin face from somewhere, the blond hair that fell limply to his shoulders. He smiled at Marlin and showed his brown-stained teeth. Marlin felt the lines in his own face, the gray in his hair, the chill in his bones. He was too old for this. He set a half dollar on the bar and started for the door. "Don't get in a huff," the bartender said. Marlin looked back. "Kraamer lives about a mile west of town. Follow the railroad and take the first trail south." According to the above context, answer the following question. The cowboy with long blonde hair most likely:
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A: Does not brush his teeth
Problem:
If you turned on the TV towards the end of 2002 you could have been forgiven for thinking that Britain had gone absolutely horseshit mental. Every week, it seemed, another pretty young girl from a nice family, who was happy and popular and always did well at school, was being kidnapped or murdered by what the Sun newspaper cheerfully termed 'evil paedo scum'. Naming and shaming was as popular a feature in the Murdoch press as Page Three girls and discounted holidays to Butlin's. Of course you can't blame parents for wanting to keep their children safe; that's pretty much the job description of a parent. And, on the face of it, the tabloids were doing a public service in warning us about the paedophile menace lurking in our midst. The problem came when it turned out that a huge number of these concerned tabloid-reading parents were also absolute fucking morons. For every story of an actual sex offender being driven from their house by a baying mob there was one like that of Dr Yvette Cloete, a doctor at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, South Wales, who returned home from work to find that a group of 'concerned parents' had daubed the word 'paedo' on her front door in bright red paint. Dr Cloete was a consultant paediatrician. Easy mistake. If you're an absolute fucking moron. And so it was that one hung-over morning, after reading yet another story about vigilantes who had threatened to stone Maxine Carr, the girlfriend of Soham killer Ian Huntley, to death during her high-profile trial for perverting the course of justice, I decided to set up a website parodying this collective national madness. The result of two or three hours of hung-over labour was thinkofthechildren.co.uk, a spoof campaign site which claimed to offer a handy online guide for crazy vigilantes of all stripes to co-ordinate their crazy vigilante efforts. Although there are a few parts of the site I'm still a bit proud of, the majority of it was, I freely admit, satire of the lowest order. According to the above context, answer the following question. How long did it take to set up thinkofthechildren.co.uk website?
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A: | Few month |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
Given a passage and a query based on the passage, generate an unambiguous, concise and simple answer to the query from information in the passage. Note that the answer may not be present in exact form.
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Output: | The distance from Highland Falls to Wappingers Falls is 24 Miles or 39 Km. |
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 are given a sentence and a question, you would be asked to create the answer which is contained in the sentence provided.
Sentence: Having white fur trait would a cat most likely inherit from its parents. Question: Which trait would a cat most likely inherit from its parents?
Solution: having white fur
Why? The given output is correct as the answer provided is from the scientific fact stated
New input: Sentence: One function of the cardiovascular system is to transport gases throughout the body. Question: Which is a function of the cardiovascular system?
Solution: | to transport gases throughout the body |
DIALOG:
What is Singing Bones?
- Singing Bones Singing Bones is the sixth studio album released by alternative country band The Handsome Family.
- When was it released?
- It was released in 2003 by Carrot Top Records (North America) / Loose Music (Europe).
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
- In 2014, the track "Far from Any Road" taken from the album was used as the theme song for the first season of HBO's crime drama "True Detective".
- What were some of the singles?
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Next turn: It was used as an opening song for "Guns n' Roses"' 2014 world tour.
Problem: What could be the response? DIALOG:
Who is Scoop Jackson?
- Scoop Jackson (writer) Robert "Scoop" Jackson (born November 23, 1963) is an American sports journalist, author and cultural critic currently contributing to ESPN.com.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
- Jackson was born and raised in Chicago, where he still lives with his wife and two children; he was born the day after U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Jackson was named after his uncle joked, "This boy scooped Kennedy.
- What happened after he was born?
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A: Put him on the cover of the paper." He attended Luther High School South in Chicago, was educated at Xavier University (LA) and received a Master in Arts degree from Howard University where he made the National Dean's List in 1990-91 before becoming a journalist.
QUESTION: Write another turn of this conversation. DIALOG:
What was the main episode of the series Mission Accomplished?
- Mission Accomplished (The Wire) "Mission Accomplished" is the 12th and final episode of the third season of the HBO original series, "The Wire".
- What is the main event of the episode?
- The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Ernest Dickerson.
- When did the episode air?
- It originally aired on December 19, 2004.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
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ANS: Carcetti wonders whether Hamsterdam is a step in the right direction, but D'Agostino encourages him to use the issue in the mayoral campaign.
question: Write a response. DIALOG:
What happened in the history of mathematics in the 19th century?
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response: As in most areas of study, the explosion of knowledge in the scientific age has led to specialization: by the end of the century there were hundreds of specialized areas in mathematics and the Mathematics Subject Classification was dozens of pages long.
Q: See the conversation. DIALOG:
What is the main stadium of the city Mogilev?
- Torpedo Stadium (Mogilev) Torpedo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Mogilev, Belarus.
- What is the main event of the stadium?
- It is mostly used for football matches and is a home stadium for Torpedo Mogilev.
- How many people fit in the stadium?
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Next: The stadium holds 3,560 spectators.
Q: See the conversation. DIALOG:
What is meant by Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook?
- Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook is a studio album by soul musician Bettye LaVette, which covers songs by British rock legends such as The Beatles, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and more.
- When was it released?
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Next: | The album was released in 2010 under ANTI- Records. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given an article. Your task is to summarize the article in a sentence.
Problem:They include two Connollys, a winner of the Eurovision Song Contest and a veteran Hollywood actress who turns 101 this year.
Here are pictures of and quotes from some of those honoured.
Billy Connolly, the Scottish comedian and actor known to millions as 'The Big Yin', receives a knighthood for services to entertainment and charity.
The 74-year-old told the BBC he was "very pleased" by an honour that was "never on the horizon" when he was growing up in Glasgow in the 1940s and '50s.
"It's so odd for someone from that background to get [a knighthood]," said the former welder who began his show-business career as a folk singer.
"It always feels strange to be welcomed into the establishment but I feel completely comfortable with it," he continued.
Ed Sheeran has even more reason to be cheerful, having been made an MBE for services to music and charity.
The chart-topping singer-songwriter released his third album, Divide, earlier this year and will be the headline act on the last night of the Glastonbury Festival next weekend.
Julie Walters, an actress whose long career in film, television and theatre has shown her to be as adept as comedy as she is with drama, has been made a dame.
Much-loved for her TV collaborations with the late Victoria Wood, she has starred in such films as Educating Rita, Billy Elliot and the Harry Potter series and was recently seen in Channel 4's National Treasure.
June Whitfield, another actress with a long history of beloved television comedy, has also been made a dame.
The 91-year-old star of Terry and June and Absolutely Fabulous told the BBC the honour had come as "a great surprise".
"I never in a million years thought I would become a dame," said the actress, who received an OBE in 1985 and a CBE in 1998.
"I've met some of the other dames and it's absolutely wonderful to join the club."
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and author JK Rowling have become companions of honour alongside designer Sir Terence Conran and cookery expert Delia Smith.
"I'm very happy about this huge honour and with the news coming on my birthday weekend and Father's Day it makes it colossal!" said Sir Paul, who turns 75 on Sunday.
"I'm deeply honoured and proud to be nominated for this honour for services to literature and philanthropy and to be included in the distinguished and diversely talented company of the other Companions of Honour," said Harry Potter creator Rowling.
Olivia de Havilland, the veteran Hollywood actress who played Scarlett O'Hara's sister-in-law in Gone with the Wind, receives a damehood just a few weeks before she turns 101.
The double Oscar winner, who was born in Tokyo to British parents on 1 July 1916, becomes the oldest woman to become a dame since the modern-day honours system began.
"I am extremely proud that the Queen has appointed me a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire," said the star of such films as The Heiress, The Snake Pit and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
"To receive this honour as my 101st birthday approaches is the most gratifying of birthday presents."
He's a best-selling author, a judge on Britain's Got Talent and he's swum both the English Channel and the length of the Thames for Sport Relief.
Now comedian and writer David Walliams has been made an OBE for services to charity and the arts - something he says will be cherished most by his mother Kathleen.
"The news made me happy, but nobody is happier than my mum," the 45-year-old Little Britain star told the Press Association.
She's always been a smooth operator. Now sultry singer-songwriter Sade - real name Helen Folasade Adu - has a CBE to add to the OBE she received in 2002.
Emeli Sande, meanwhile, becomes an OBE for services to music. The Scottish singer memorably performed at both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics.
Author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman and and Fungus the Bogeyman, becomes a CBE at the age of 83.
This picture, taken in London's Hyde Park in 2008, shows him and a friend seated next to a deckchair adorned with perhaps his best-loved character.
Broadcaster Gloria Hunniford becomes an OBE for services to cancer charities through breast screening services and cancer support. The 77-year-old sadly lost her daughter Caron to cancer in 2004.
June Spencer, another broadcasting veteran, becomes a CBE. The 98-year-old actress, who plays Peggy Woolley on The Archers, is the only original cast member who can still be heard on Radio 4's long-running rural soap.
Spencer said her CBE was "an unexpected and great honour", while Huw Kennair-Jones, editor of The Archers, said it was "incredibly well deserved".
Patricia Hodge and Sarah Lancashire both become OBEs for services to drama.
Hodge is known for such shows as Miranda, Rumpole of the Bailey and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, while former Coronation Street star Lancashire won a Bafta this year for the BBC's Happy Valley.
Both Tony Hawks and Natasha Kaplinsky are known to millions for their radio and television work. Yet both have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours for their activities outside the studio.
Hawks becomes an MBE for services to disadvantaged children in Moldova, while Kaplinsky has been made an OBE for services to Holocaust commemoration.
Kaplinsky is a member of the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation advisory board and has spent the past 15 months voluntarily interviewing 112 British survivors.
"Obviously this is a huge honour to receive an OBE but it gives me an opportunity to talk about the extraordinary people that I've met throughout this project," said the ITV newsreader and former Strictly Come Dancing winner.
Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw has been made an MBE, as has writer and director Amma Asante.
The pair worked together on 2013 film Belle, which told the real life story of a mixed-race woman who was brought up as an aristocrat in 18th Century London.
Model Erin O'Connor becomes an MBE for services to fashion and charity, while Sandie Shaw is made an MBE for services to music and charity.
Shaw, now 70, became the United Kingdom's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest when she sang Puppet on a String in Vienna in 1967.
Mezzo soprano Sarah Connolly has been made a dame, while the conductor and composer George Benjamin becomes a sir.
Connolly - who is not related to her namesake Billy - was made a CBE in the 2010 New Year honours, while Benjamin received the same honour six months later.
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Solution: | A host of leading figures from the world of arts and entertainment have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours. |
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.
[Q]: Death by natural causes -- A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is the end result of an illness or an internal malfunction of the body not directly caused by external forces, typically due to old age. This is especially true when an elderly person has several different conditions or diseases, but where it appears that none of them alone or together may clearly lead to the death, and it is uncertain which condition was the final factor causing death. Contrary to the statement before, everything is natural at some point. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza (an infection) or a heart attack (an internal body malfunction) or sudden heart failure would be listed as having died from natural causes. Health departments discourage listing old age as the cause of death because doing so does not benefit public health or medical research. Old age is not a scientifically recognized cause of death; there is always a more direct cause, although it may be unknown in certain cases and could be one of a number of aging-associated diseases.
[A]: can a young person die of natural causes
[Q]: Appendicular skeleton -- The appendicular skeleton is the portion of the skeleton of vertebrates consisting of the bones that support the appendages. Appendages appeared as fins in early fish, and subsequently evolved into the limbs of tetrapods. The appendicular skeleton includes the skeletal elements within the limbs, as well as supporting pectoral and pelvic girdles in the case of tetrapods (these are lacking in fish). The word appendicular is the adjective of the noun appendage, which itself means a part that is joined to something larger.
[A]: pelvic girdle is part of the appendicular skeleton
[Q]: Ivy League -- The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.
[A]: | is massachusetts institute of technology an ivy league school
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In this task, you are given a question and an answer. Answer "Yes" if the given answer correctly answers the question, otherwise answer "No".
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Question: how many presidents of the us, Answer: William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office with 32 days in 1841, and Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest with over twelve years, but died shortly into his fourth term in 1945.
Answer: No
Question: where did the persian war take place, Answer: The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
Answer: Yes
Question: what happens to the light independent reactions of photosynthesis?, Answer: There are three phases to the light-independent reactions, collectively called the Calvin cycle : carbon fixation, reduction reactions, and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) regeneration.
Answer: | No
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Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about LaserDisc:
The standard home video LaserDisc was 30 cm (12 in) in diameter and made up of two single-sided aluminum discs layered in plastic. Although appearing similar to compact discs or DVDs, LaserDiscs used analog video stored in the composite domain (having a video bandwidth approximately equivalent to the 1-inch (25 mm) C-Type VTR format) with analog FM stereo sound and PCM digital audio. The LaserDisc at its most fundamental level was still recorded as a series of pits and lands much like CDs, DVDs, and even Blu-ray Discs are today. However, while the encoding is of a binary nature, the information is encoded as analog pulse width modulation with a 50% duty cycle, where the information is contained in the lengths and spacing of the pits. In true digital media the pits, or their edges, directly represent 1s and 0s of a binary digital information stream. Early LaserDiscs featured in 1978 were entirely analog but the format evolved to incorporate digital stereo sound in CD format (sometimes with a TOSlink or coax output to feed an external DAC), and later multi-channel formats such as Dolby Digital and DTS.
Were the ealiest LaserDiscs in 1978 analog or digitally formatted?
A: analog
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Galicia (Spain):
General Francisco Franco — himself a Galician from Ferrol — ruled as dictator from the civil war until his death in 1975. Franco's centralizing regime suppressed any official use of the Galician language, including the use of Galician names for newborns, although its everyday oral use was not forbidden. Among the attempts at resistance were small leftist guerrilla groups such as those led by José Castro Veiga ("El Piloto") and Benigno Andrade ("Foucellas"), both of whom were ultimately captured and executed. In the 1960s, ministers such as Manuel Fraga Iribarne introduced some reforms allowing technocrats affiliated with Opus Dei to modernize administration in a way that facilitated capitalist economic development. However, for decades Galicia was largely confined to the role of a supplier of raw materials and energy to the rest of Spain, causing environmental havoc and leading to a wave of migration to Venezuela and to various parts of Europe. Fenosa, the monopolistic supplier of electricity, built hydroelectric dams, flooding many Galician river valleys.
Francisco Franco was himself a Galician from which city?
A: Ferrol
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Buddhism:
In Buddhist practice, it is said that while samatha meditation can calm the mind, only vipassanā meditation can reveal how the mind was disturbed to start with, which is what leads to insight knowledge (jñāna; Pāli ñāṇa) and understanding (prajñā Pāli paññā), and thus can lead to nirvāṇa (Pāli nibbāna). When one is in jhana, all defilements are suppressed temporarily. Only understanding (prajñā or vipassana) eradicates the defilements completely. Jhanas are also states that Arahants abide in order to rest.
In Buddhism, samatha meditation can calm the what?
A: mind
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Alps:
Important geological concepts were established as naturalists began studying the rock formations of the Alps in the 18th century. In the mid-19th century the now defunct theory of geosynclines was used to explain the presence of "folded" mountain chains but by the mid-20th century the theory of plate tectonics became widely accepted.
What was used in the mid-19th century to explain the presence of "folded" mountain chains?
A: | theory of geosynclines |
They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
Business is good today.
Word: "business"
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
the same meaning
Raise a mutiny.
Raised edges.
Word: "raise"
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
different meanings
Call a runner out.
Call a football game.
Word: "call"
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
different meanings
He paid all his bills by check.
Put a check mark in the box corresponding to the correct answer.
Word: "check"
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
| different meanings |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
A typical architect in California earns about $112,000 a year, according to the jobs site Indeed. For lawyers and software engineers, the average figures are more than $115,000.
But beating them all — by a lot — is an unlikely job title: In-N-Out Burger store manager.
According to the latest numbers from the Irvine hamburger chain, the average yearly pay of its restaurant managers is now more than $160,000. That’s roughly triple the industry average.
“In-N-Out is just eons above everybody else,” said Saru Jayaraman, who leads the Food Labor Research Center at U.C. Berkeley. “On wages and benefits, they really are the best large chain.”
A family-owned company, In-N-Out is known for treating its employees well. Denny Warnick, vice president of operations, said in an email that the approach was set down with the company’s founding in 1948 by Harry and Esther Snyder, who made quality service a central focus.
“Paying their associates well was just one way to help maintain that focus, and those beliefs remain firmly in place with us today,” Warnick said.
In-N-Out workers get at least $13 an hour to start, and can eventually rise through the ranks to store manager — no college degree necessary. Benefits include 401(k) plans, paid vacation, and health, dental, and vision plans. (California’s minimum wage for large companies recently bumped up to $11, and is required by law to hit $15 by 2022.)
In-N-Out employees enjoy some of the highest wages of the fast food industry. (Tom Coates/CC BY-NC 2.0)
Jayaraman said In-N-Out wasn’t performing charity — a loyal workforce means increased productivity, less employee turnover, and in the long run larger profits.
“Our research shows that companies that take the high road make a profit not in spite of paying their workers better but because they pay their workers better,” she said.
If other fast food establishments have been reluctant to raise wages, Jayaraman added, it’s because pressure from investors has elevated quarterly gains above the potential long-term benefits of happy workers. In-N-Out has no public shareholders.
But isn’t the work a grind? To be sure, many of the accounts from In-N-Out employees on the job review website Glassdoor cite hard work and long hours.
Even so, more than 90 percent said they’d recommend the workplace to a friend.
That’s one reason In-N-Out was №4 in Glassdoor’s latest national ranking of the best places to work — beating out Google, LinkedIn, and Salesforce, among many others.
This article is from the California Sun, a newsletter that delivers California’s most compelling news to your inbox each morning — for free. Sign up here. ||||| Advice to Management
Not much advice except that sometimes our uniforms are very thin and need replacing, not sure if this is store specific thought. Also the sizes of the uniforms, we always seem to never have enough clothes they are always way to many xxl and so on. Again not sure if that is store specific. ||||| - In-N-Out revealed the salary of its managers in a recent interview with the California Sun.
According to the report the fast food restaurant pays its restaurant managers on average more than $160,000, which is more than triple the fast food industry average.
Workers at the family-owned chain begin at $13 per hour, which is $2.50 above California's current minimum wage. Employees can work their way up to get the coveted manager's salary, and a college degree is not necessary.
Benefits also include health insurance, vision, 401K and dental plans.
KTVU reached out to In-N-Out Burger corporate who confirmed managers make on average $160,000.
In-N-Out tells KTVU the store managers each lead a single restaurant, and they are responsible for overseeing all aspects of that location’s operation. "These responsibilities include ensuring that quality, service, and cleanliness meet our high standards. As leaders, they hire, train, and develop their team, and are responsible for creating and maintaining an enthusiastic and positive working environment."
Employees seem to appreciate working for In-N-Out. On Glassdooor.com 91 percent of employees would recommend working at In-N-Out to a friend. One former employee wrote that it can be a bit fast paced and stressful at times but it's "great pay, and you can move up fairly quickly."
The In-N-Out employment page can be found here.
Read the full report from the California Sun here. |||||
Output: | In-N-Out is famous for its secret menu, but perhaps the fast-food chain's most shocking secret is the six-figure salaries its managers are pulling down. The California Sun reports managers at In-N-Out make more than $160,000 a year on average. That's more than the average software engineer, lawyer, or architect working in California makes and approximately triple what the average restaurant manager makes. "In-N-Out is just eons above everybody else," says Saru Jayaraman, head of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley. "On wages and benefits, they really are the best large chain." In-N-Out workers start at $13 an hour, and a review of the company on Glassdoor says "you can move up fairly quickly." In fact, In-N-Out employees can get promoted to manager—and that six-figure salary—without a college degree. KTVU reports In-N-Out managers are responsible for hiring, training, service, quality, work environment, and more at a single location. Glassdoor recently ranked In-N-Out as the fourth best place to work in the US—ahead of even Google—despite employees warning that "the job itself can get a little bit stressful at times." More than 90% of former employees would recommend working at In-N-Out to a friend, and In-N-Out's Lynsi Snyder is the 36th highest rated CEO per Glassdoor stats, which list her as having a 94% employee approval rating. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a question and a passage. You need to determine if the answer to the question is contained in the passage. If the answer can be found in the passage you should output 'True'. If the answer cannot be found in the passage you should output 'False'.
Q: Passage: 'As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and Brooks. The paintings were created for the film by New York artist Billy Sullivan.'. Question: 'where did jazz music originated and how did it spread'.
A: | False |
At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Didrikson won gold medals in the javelin (Olympic record) and 80-meter hurdles (world record), along with a silver in the high jump (share of the world record).
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
2,45 m is the world record in the high jump. | no |
Q:Jimbob Blakey wasn't so much given birth to as clambered right out of his mother himself. He weighed in at almost thirteen pounds, came ready-fitted with a shock of fat black hair and a couple of razor teeth. Jimbob's folks loved him like most folks love their little ones, maybe more. They'd been trying so hard for a child, suffered more mid-term miscarriages than the ewes they shuttled off to market most Thursdays. They dressed him in a one-year babygro and took him home to their hill farm. They fought to get up nights and give him his milk. His teeth made breast-feeding impossible. They sat hours gazing down in his cot. They dressed him fine and took him to their church and gave their thanks. Showed him off like the proud parents they were. Others cooed and smiled. But they never asked to hold. They gave thanks the Blakeys were happy, and that the monkey-baby had not been born to them. Jimbob's folks never gave a second thought that their boy might be different. The first Spring he walked, he stomped the moors in his welly-boots helping herd the pregnant ewes down in-by. He copied his father, kicking and cuffing at the stragglers, when the flock was returned to the hills in May. As Jimbob grew, his hair became thicker, his arms longer. His head shrunk down on his shoulders. At check-ups, nurses fixed smiles and pronounced him healthy. Doctors said, 'he'll make you a strapping lad.' His mother smiled, her heart swelled. When he was three, she sent him to nursery. She wanted him to mix with other kids. To taste life off the hard hills. She said, 'it'll do him the world of good.' Jimbob hated leaving the farm. He clung to his mother. She drove away, blinking tears. On the third day, she took a phone call. 'It's Jimbob,' they said. 'He's scaring the other kids.'The truth hit Jimbob's mother like a hammer. According to the above context, choose the correct option to answer the following question. Question: who has a monkey child? Options: - the church goer - jimbob's mother - not enough information - jimbob
A: | jimbob's mother |
QUESTION: The prisoners often grouped to play cards, it was one of the few ways to avoid being what in there?
Options:
- afraid
- have fun
- bored
- winning
- good at
ANSWER: Prison is a place where people are npt allowed to do many thing which makes them feel bored. Playing cards let prisoners enjoy hence not get bored.
The answer is bored
q: If you're enjoying a contralto, what event are you attending?
Options:
- fun
- choir
- describe singing voice
- chorus
- concert
a: Contralto is mostly in a concert. Concert is an event.
The answer is concert
QUESTION: When buying something you gain that item but you also what?
Options:
- using money
- feel better
- go broke
- steal
- losing money
ANSWER: Losing money refers to having less money than before. Buying something results in having less money than before.
The answer is losing money
q: From where would you expect to pick up a rock?
Options:
- bridge
- mountain range
- mountains
- ground
- forest
a: Rocks are available on ground. A rock can be picked up from ground easily.
The answer is ground
QUESTION: Washing hands is important, you should wet, then what, and then rinse?
Options:
- thinking
- irritation
- use soap
- dry
- cleaning hands after autopsy
ANSWER: You can use soap to wash hands. Washing hands is important, firstly you should wet your hands then use soap and then rinse them.
The answer is use soap
QUESTION: Where is likely the coziest plat to eat?
Options:
- downtown
- prison
- city
- own house
- earing
ANSWER: | People are usually comfortable in their own home. People often eat meals at their own house. Own house is most likely the coziest place to eat.
The answer is own house |
Q: One day after a mass shooting killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reiterated his support for a plan to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States. At a campaign rally in New Hampshire Monday, Trump promised his supporters that, if elected, he would use the executive powers to "suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats." Although the suspected Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was an American citizen, Trump suggested immigrants from the Middle East can come to the U.S. and radicalize people who are already here, or work to convince them online. "The media talks about homegrown terrorism," Trump said. "But Islamic radicalism ... and the networks that nurture it are imports from overseas whether you like it or don't like it." Refugees and immigrants from conflict ridden Middle Eastern countries like Syria, Iraq and Libya could "be a better, bigger more horrible version than the legendary Trojan horse ever was," Trump said. But a recent Brookings Institution survey found Americans are far more welcoming of refugees than the billionaire candidate. Of those surveyed, 59 percent support accepting refugees, while 41 percent oppose it. Those views are split right down party lines, with just 38 percent of Republicans supporting taking in refugees from Syria and the Middle East, compared to 77 percent of Democrats. But among Trump supporters, an overwhelming 77 percent said they oppose taking in refugees. The Obama administration has set a goal of admitting as many as 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States by the fall.Respondents of the surveys also were sharply divided on whether they would be willing to accept refugees from Syria in particular, with 61 percent of Republicans saying the U.S. should not accept Syrian refugees, compared to 27 percent of Democrats. Trump supporters again... According to the above context, answer the following question. When did a mass shooting happen in a gay nightclub in Florida?
A: | one day ago |
Q: What is the question to: "Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($ adjusted for inflation) at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2)."? The topic is Alaska.
A: "Who controlled Alaska before US??"
Q: What is the question to: "However, adverse psychiatric reactions such as anxiety, paranoia, and delusions are possible."? The topic is Lysergic acid diethylamide.
A: "how does lsd impact the human body?"
Q: What is the question to: "Browser extension , which modifies the interface and/or behavior of web browsers"? The topic is Add-on.
A: "what are add ons?"
Q: What is the question to: "In 494 BC, the Persians regrouped, and attacked the epicentre of the revolt in Miletus."? The topic is Greco-Persian Wars.
A: | "where did the persian war take place?" |
Does "New Delhi is particularly renowned for its beautifully landscaped gardens that can look quite stunning in spring." contain the correct answer to "The gardens of New Delhi are particularly stunning in which season?"
A: yes
Does "There were several differences between the newly established Carolingian Empire and both the older Western Roman Empire and the concurrent Byzantine Empire." contain the correct answer to "About how many counts existed in the Carolingian Empire?"
A: no
Does "The Portuguese language is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago—particularly the Celts, Tartessians, Lusitanians and Iberians." contain the correct answer to "Between what years did Portugal establish a colonial and commercial empire?"
A: | no |
Detailed Instructions: Write the right answer to the question based on the context passage.
Q: Sheila split open and the air was filled with gumballs. Yellow gumballs. This was awful for Stan, just awful. He had loved Sheila for a long time, fought for her heart, believed in their love until finally she had come around. They were about to kiss for the first time and then this: yellow gumballs.
Stan went to a group to try to accept that Sheila was gone. It was a group for people whose unrequited love had ended in some kind of surrealist moment. There is a group for everything in California.
After several months of hard work on himself with the group, Stan was ready to open a shop and sell the thousands of yellow gumballs. He did this because he believed in capitalism, he loved capitalism. He loved the dynamic surge and crash of Amazon's stock price, he loved the great concrete malls spreading across America like blood staining through a handkerchief, he loved how everything could be tracked and mirrored in numbers. When he closed the store each night he would count the gumballs sold, and he would determine his gross revenue, his operating expenses, his operating margin; he would adjust his balance sheet and learn his debt to equity ratio; and after this exercise each night, Stan felt he understood himself and was at peace, and he could go home to his apartment and drink tea and sleep, without shooting himself or thinking about Sheila.
On the night before the IPO of gumballs.com, Sheila came to Stan in a dream. She was standing in a kiddie pool; Stan and his brothers and sisters were running around splashing and screaming; she had managed to insert herself into a Super-8 home movie of Stan's family, shot in the late 70's. She looked terribly sad.
"Sheila, where are you?" Stan said. "Why did you leave me, why did you become gumballs?"
"The Ant King has me," Sheila said. "You must rescue me." Question: Who turned into thousands of yellow gumballs?
A: | Sheila |
A question is presented to you in this task, and your job is to write a potentially correct answer.
Q: what year was tom brady drafted?
A: | 1999 |
Given a passage and a question, find the answer to the question based on the passage. The answer should consist of only one word that lies in the span of only one of the sentences in the passage.
Paragraph: The country with the single largest population of Muslims is Indonesia in Southeast Asia , which on its own hosts 13 % of the world 's Muslims . Together , the Muslims in the countries of the Malay Archipelago ( which includes Brunei , Singapore , Malaysia , Indonesia , the Philippines and East Timor ) constitute the world 's second or third largest population of Muslims . Here Muslims are majorities in each country other than Singapore , the Philippines , and East Timor .
Question: which country has the highest number of muslim
Indonesia
Paragraph: The main syndrome of vitamin B deficiency is pernicious anemia . It is characterized by a triad of symptoms :
Question: a severe vitamin b12 deficiency results in what form of anemia
pernicious
Paragraph: Phoebe was originally portrayed as the `` free - spirited '' , `` carefree '' , and most rebellious sister . However , Phoebe 's progression as a witch helps her become more responsible and grow as a person . She later becomes the middle sister after Prue dies and the series introduces their younger half - sister Paige Matthews ( Rose McGowan ) . This results in Phoebe often playing mediator between Piper and Paige , much like Piper used to be for her and Prue . Phoebe 's various romantic relationships have been central to most of her storylines . Her longest on - screen relationship is with half - demon Cole Turner ( Julian McMahon ) ; they have a turbulent marriage in the fourth season , and in the fifth , following their divorce , she is compelled to vanquish him . In subsequent seasons , Phoebe has romantic relationships with her boss Jason Dean ( Eric Dane ) , fellow employee Leslie St. Claire ( Nick Lachey ) , and artist Dex Lawson ( Jason Lewis ) . In the eighth and final season , she marries a cupid named Coop ( Victor Webster ) .
Question: who does phoebe from charmed end up with
| Coop
|
Question: Has the final been won by a club outside of the top divisions?
Is "The final has never been contested by two teams from outside the top division and there have only been eight winners who weren't in the top flight: Notts County (1894); Tottenham Hotspur (1901); Wolverhampton Wanderers (1908); Barnsley (1912); West Bromwich Albion (1931); Sunderland (1973), Southampton (1976) and West Ham United (1980)." the correct answer? | yes |
Hello I have been chased by a couple of angry dogs. I was visiting one of my clients, when, suddenly, out of the bushes, two snarling dogs attacked me. They weren’t necessarily mad, as in crazy, but they were very angry. They were large dogs, and they attacked my legs, knocking me down. I knew it was very dangerous to be down on the ground, as I was most vulnerable. I covered my genitalia, my neck and my face, as I struggled to regain my feet. Fortunately, during my fall, I saw a large tree branch on the ground near me. I grabbed it, and starting beating the dogs with it. I managed to land a few good hits. As I was hitting the dogs, their owner (my client) came outside, stood on her porch and laughed at me. When she saw me hitting her dogs with a stick, she called the dogs off of me. I asked her why her dogs attacked me, and why she laughed at me. She said that she had just given her dogs a big steak bone and they were upset when I came near and attacked me. I asked her why she would set me up in this way when she knew I was on the way over. She admitted that she wanted to see what happened, and she said that when she saw what happened she thought that it was funny. I did not keep the appointment with her. My trousers were torn, and my ankles, legs, and hands were bleeding. I told her that I would not be back, and left. Later that night, her husband called to apologize on her behalf. I told him that I appreciated the call, but he wasn’t the one who needed to apologize. Peace According to the above context, choose the correct option to answer the following question. Question: Why was the writer attacked? Options: - not enough information - Because the writer antagonized the dogs. - Because the dogs were mad. - Because the woman set him up to be attacked.
| Because the woman set him up to be attacked. |
Sentence 1: Take steps.
Sentence 2: Take the gun from your pocket.
Does take mean the same thing in these two sentences? | different meanings |
Definition: In this task, you will be given text in English. You need to translate the text into the Sinhali language.
Input: Slavery was also widespread in Africa, with both internal and external slave trade.
Output: | වහල්භාවය අප්රිකාවේ, අභ්යන්තර හා බාහිර වහල් වෙළඳාම යන දෙකම සමඟින් පුළුල්ව පැතිරී තිබුණි, |
Given the following passage "The modern Greek theatre was born after the Greek independence, in the early 19th century, and initially was influenced by the Heptanesean theatre and melodrama, such as the Italian opera. The Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù was the first theatre and opera house of modern Greece and the place where the first Greek opera, Spyridon Xyndas' The Parliamentary Candidate (based on an exclusively Greek libretto) was performed. During the late 19th and early 20th century, the Athenian theatre scene was dominated by revues, musical comedies, operettas and nocturnes and notable playwrights included Spyridon Samaras, Dionysios Lavrangas, Theophrastos Sakellaridis and others.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What influence did the Italian opera have on the Greek theater?
The answer to this question is: | melodrama |
With a heavy heart , I am leaving the blogsphere and my bike to work routine for a while . Lately I have been busy with some extra work that I have at times , completely forgotten to update my blog and more importantly , visit other blogs as well . Another reason is , I still have no internet access at home , and I do not know when I could have one . The problem is with the electric supply that goes into the subdivision where I now live .
Question: What will the writer do after this story is published . | The writer will focus more on her employment . |
Question:
My parents gave the neighbors tickets to Six Flags since they needed them.
they
OPTIONS:
- My parents
- the neighbors
Answer:
the neighbors
The heavy weapons team bombarded the settlement with their mortars even though they were unarmed.
Who is "they" in this prior sentence?
OPTIONS:
- The heavy weapons team
- the settlement
the settlement
Question:
Gary envied Bill because he was rich.
Who is he referring to in this sentence? OPTIONS:
- Gary
- Bill
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Answer:
Bill
Q: Doctor Jenner continued his work on a vaccine for John because he has a deadly disease.
Who he is? OPTIONS:
- Doctor Jenner
- John
A: John
QUESTION:
The boy ran from the cop because he saw the crime.
Who is "he"?
OPTIONS:
- The boy
- the cop
ANS:
the cop
Question:
The police officer chased the thief because he was stealing from the bank.
he
OPTIONS:
- The police officer
- the thief
Answer:
| the thief |
fact and question: storms can cause a landslide
Question: torrential downpours can cause the side of a hill to become
What's the answer? OPTIONS:
- depressed
- rock hard
- greener
- unstable
answer: unstable
fact and question: as the number of eggs laid by an animal increases , the number of eggs that hatch will increase
Question: The turtle which lays the most eggs on a beach will
What's the answer? OPTIONS:
- decrease turtle numbers
- boost hatching numbers
- stop hatching young
- eat more sand
answer: boost hatching numbers
fact and question: as air pressure increases , the reading on a barometer will rise
Question: Which would likely most impact a barometer?
What's the answer? OPTIONS:
- gale-force winds
- thunder
- light breezes
- lightning
answer: gale-force winds
fact and question: if two objects have the same charge then those two materials will repel each other
Question: If two objects have the same charge then what will they do to eachother?
What's the answer? OPTIONS:
- repel attackers
- approach
- pull
- push away
answer: | push away |
A person is peeling a potato.
What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a 1 out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence?
A man is putting broccoli into water.
Foxes are eating from a plate.
What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a 3 out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence?
Two foxes are eating from a plate on a brick patio.
A dog walks through the snow.
What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a 2 out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence?
A black dog jumps through the water.
Boston police say 3 taken into custody in Marathon bombing
What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a 5 out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence?
| 3 Suspects Taken Into Custody in Boston Bombing Case |
In this task, you're given a question, along with a context passage which has extra information available on certain terms mentioned in it. Your job is to determine which sentence(s) from the passage can be used to search for further information needed to answer the question.
Question: Which North American city hall building that used Superblocks was completed first? Passage:Superblocks are also used when functional units such as rail yards or shipyards, inherited from the 19th and early 20th centuries, are too big to fit in an average city block. A contemporary function which reflects ancient practices that also requires larger than typical blocks is the sports stadium or arena. Just as the Colosseum in ancient Rome, sports complexes require superblocks. The Providence Park stadium in Portland, for example, takes up four normal city blocks as does the equally large Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina. Other contemporary institutions, establishments or functions that use superblocks are: city halls like Government Center, Boston and Toronto City Hall; regional general hospitals or specialized medical centres; convention and exhibition centers, such as Exhibition Place in Toronto and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center; and downtown enclosed Shopping Malls such as Eaton Centre in Toronto, echoing the large gallerias of the 19th century. Cultural complexes, such as the Lincoln Center in New York City, often occupy a superblock achieved through the consolidation of regular city blocks. A recent superblock user is the merchandise distribution centre, which can range in area from one to ten city blocks.
Other contemporary institutions, establishments or functions that use superblocks are: city halls like Government Center, Boston and Toronto City Hall; regional general hospitals or specialized medical centres; convention and exhibition centers, such as Exhibition Place in Toronto and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center; and downtown enclosed Shopping Malls such as Eaton Centre in Toronto, echoing the large gallerias of the 19th century
Question: Of the states that had settlers help establish Tennesssee Colony, which has the most people? Passage:Tennessee Colony was established in 1847 by settlers from Tennessee and Alabama, who named their settlement for one of their home states. The first settlers who settled in the community had the last names Shelton, Avant, Hank, and Seagler. The community's fertile soil and moist climate made it feasible to grow cotton, and several plantations were established, including the Jackson Plantation, which, at one time, was one of the largest plantations in East Texas. They were extremely successful. A post office was established at Tennessee Colony in 1852. Before the Civil War, as well as after, the community fell victim to racial tensions. Two white men from Mississippi named Cable and Wyrick were accused of plotting a slave uprising in 1860, in which they encouraged slaves to kill most of the community's white residents by poisoning the water supply in the settlement. They were tried and hanged soon after. The nearby city of Palestine had the community's first railroad built there. As of 1884 Tennessee Colony boasted a population of 200 and three churches, a steam-powered gristmill, and a cotton gin. As the community's businesses moved to the nearby city of Palestine, the community's population plummeted over the next few decades. There were a few grocers and cotton gins in the area, and it eventually received a telephone connection. It functioned as a small cultural port in the 20th century. The population declined to just 100 people by 1914, rose again to 300 in 1927, but again declined during the 1930s. In 1941 there were 150 people in Tennessee Colony. A total of 21,000 acres of land was purchased just southwest of the settlement by the Texas Department of Corrections in 1965, and the first medium security prison facility named the Coffield Unit was built in the community and held approximately 2,000 prisoners. It reached its population zenith of 400 by that year. Then the Beto Unit, the community's second prison, was finished in 1984. There were factories built for fabricating metal, as well as building concrete blocks and highway signs, in these prison facilities. It also had thriving agricultural and livestock operations. It had a steady population of 120 from the 1970s to 1990. It had a population of 300 in 2000. It currently has two historical markers, with one honoring the community, and the other commemorating the community's cemetery.
Tennessee Colony was established in 1847 by settlers from Tennessee and Alabama, who named their settlement for one of their home states
Question: Which airplane type that conducted daytime anti-submarine warfare operations for FAW-15 has a higher cruising speed? Passage:In 1944, Argentia served as one of the two stopover bases for the refuelling, maintenance, and crew changes of the six United States Navy (USN) K-class blimps that made the first transatlantic crossings of non-rigid airships. Blimps K-123 and K-130 from USN Blimp Squadron 14 (also known as ZP-14, Blimpron 14, or "The Africa Squadron") left South Weymouth Naval Air Station in Massachusetts on 28 May 1944 and landed at Argentia about 16 hours later. The two K-ships then flew for approximately 22 hours to Lages Field on Terceira Island in the Azores, the second stopover base for the transatlantic flights. The last leg was a ~20-hour flight to the squadron's final destination with Fleet Air Wing (FAW) 15 at Port Lyautey, French Morocco (now Kenitra, Morocco). Blimps K-123 and K-130 were followed by K-109 and K-134 then K-112 and K-101 which left South Weymouth on 11 and 27 June, respectively, in 1944. These six blimps initially conducted nighttime anti-submarine warfare operations to complement the daytime missions flown by FAW-15 aircraft (PBYs and PB4Y-2) using magnetic anomaly detection to locate U-boats in the relatively shallow waters around the Strait of Gibraltar. Later, ZP-14 K-ships conducted minespotting and minesweeping operations in key Mediterranean ports and various escort missions including that of the convoy carrying Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to the Yalta Conference in early 1945. In late April 1945, K-89 and K-114 left NAS Weeksville (now Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City) in North Carolina and flew a southern route to NAS Bermuda, the Azores, and Port Lyautey, where they arrived on 1 May 1945.
| These six blimps initially conducted nighttime anti-submarine warfare operations to complement the daytime missions flown by FAW-15 aircraft (PBYs and PB4Y-2) using magnetic anomaly detection to locate U-boats in the relatively shallow waters around the Strait of Gibraltar
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In this task, you are given a second sentence. Your task is to generate the first sentence on the same topic but incoherent and inconsistent with the second sentence.
However , the artwork reverentially displays themes from Shaktism and Vaishnavism traditions of Hinduism as well . | The temple complex is primarily the abode of Shiva , depicted in widely celebrated carvings which narrate legends and mythologies of Shaivism . |
Problem: What are some ideas of real life problem (not necessarily related to computer science) but can be solved by computer science?
What are some programming/computer science books that you want to read but can't because they're very difficult?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer: no
question: What does an event management software do?
How do I choose an event management software?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
answer: no
How long should one meditate?
How long one can meditate?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer: yes
What is meant by independent engineer?
What is meant by independence?
Please tell me if those questions are the same. OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
A: no
Is it true that the value of most US assets is largely driven by illegal/black money from US itself and from advanced emerging markets?
I made out with a guy randomly. And, He feels for me but I don't. I'm so guilty, what should I do?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer: no
Questions: Q1: How do I vote in the American President election?
Q2: How American presidents get elected? Who will vote for the candidates in the elections?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer: | no |
Answer the following question: Jenny turned her nose up at me as I sat down, sniffing loudly and filling her nostrils with the strong alcohol stink I was emitting. "So have you been drinking already this morning, or are you just still drunk from last night?" "A little of both," I said. She peered at me disapprovingly over her iced latte. We were sitting at a table in front of a strip mall coffee shop. Jenny was wearing huge gold-rimmed sunglasses and had a decent collection of shopping bags gathered at her feet. "Busy afternoon?" I asked. "Just picking up a few things for Mexico. We leave tomorrow morning." My attention was drawn away by a group of men in black jumpsuits standing around in the parking lot next to a white van with the red Asterion logo painted on its side. It was hard to tell, but I thought one of them was the same guy I'd seen on the Light Rail a couple days before, the one who'd been reading the paper. Jenny seemed to notice my distraction and followed my gaze. "Is something wrong?" "No, it's just those Asterion guys seem to be everywhere now. I guess business must be booming." "Yeah, we hired them last month to archive our old financial records," Jenny replied. "They came in and hauled everything away, I was so happy to get all that empty space back. Of course it doesn't really matter now, since I'm going to have to find a new job when I get back from the honeymoon. "Anyways, I'm rambling," she admitted good-naturedly. "So what did you want to talk to me about?" "I wanted to ask you about someone I met last night." She bared her teeth ecstatically in a knowing grin. "Really? A woman, I presume." "Settle down, it's not like that. She's just a girl who said she can help introduce me to Dylan Maxwell." "Was it Natalie?" she asked. "I don't know. She was wearing a motley dress and a black veil." "Yep, that's Natalie," Jenny confirmed. According to the above context, choose the correct option to answer the following question. Question: Why did Jenny smile? Options: - because the narrator met a romantic interest - not enough information - because the narrator met a girl last night - because the narrator met a romantic interest who is Jenny's friend
Answer: | because the narrator met a girl last night |
Sal liked magic. He always tried to pulled tricks for his family. He tried to pull a rabbit out of his hat on day. But the hat ripped and the rabbit fell through.
And thus Sal gave up on magic.
Last Friday I ate lunch with my niece. We went to a restaurant that had a jungle theme. My niece was excited because the restaurant was so cool. We ate our meals, and shared a dessert.
This would be our new favorite restaurant.
Tuesdays are laundry days at my apartment. We have been too busy the last couple of Tuesdays. Now we have almost no clean clothes left. I'm dressed foolishly and still smell bad.
| I will do laundry right now. |
Kathy went shopping. She found a pair of great shoes. The shoes were $300. She bought the shoes.
What is a natural next sentence? | She felt buyer's remorse after the purchase. |
In this task, you are given a context and four options. Each option is a suggested ending for the context. You should read the context and pick the best ending for the context. Please answer with "A", "B", "C", and "D".
Q: A young girl is shown on a large gym floor doing flips and tricks with a baton and several judges watching her. She continues moving along the floor while along girl practices behind her. she <sep> (A) continues to do several more cartwheels until the studio is full of people watching and her routine ends. (B) finishes her routine and stands in front of the judges and hears her results. (C) fails many times and ends by squeezing the baton in her hand and walking off the floor. (D) stops for a bit to speak to the judges and blue lights flash.
A: | B |
In this task, you're given a question, a context passage, and four options which are terms from the passage. After reading a passage, you will get a brief understanding of the terms. Your job is to determine by searching and reading further information of which term you can answer the question. Indicate your choice as 'a', 'b', 'c', or 'd'. If you think more than one option is plausible, choose the more probable option to help you answer the question.
One example: Question: When did the operation during which the 704th dropped supplies to allied troops near Nijmegen begin? Passage: The group was occasionally diverted from strategic missions to carry out air support and interdiction missions. It supported Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by attacking transportation targets, including bridges, along with airfields and strong points in France. On D Day, the squadron and the rest of the 446th Group led the first heavy bomber mission of the day. The 446th aided ground forces at Caen and Saint-Lôduring July by hitting bridges, gun batteries, and enemy troops. During Operation Market Garden, the attempt to seize a bridgehead across the Rhine in the Netherlands, the 704th dropped supplies to allied troops near Nijmegen. It struck lines of communications during the Battle of the Bulge. During Operation Varsity in March 1945, it supplied ground and airborne troops near Wesel. The squadron flew its last combat mission on 25 April 1945 against Salzburg, Austria. The group had flown 273 missions and had lost 58 aircraft during the war,
. Links: a. Allies of World War II b. Wesel c. Operation Market Garden d. Air Support.
Solution is here: c
Explanation: The passage describes the 704th's actions during Operation Market Garden.
Now, solve this: Question: How many copies did his first solo hit sale? Passage:A mixture of songs that inspired his own musical development, together with some of his own compositions, allied to a backing band and orchestra (The Caledonia Soul Orchestra) and several performances (as noted in the album's liner notes) that were recorded in concerts at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, California (24–27 May 1973), the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (29 June 1973) and The Rainbow (23–24 July 1973) in London. These performance result in what Myles Palmer of the Times reviewed as demolishing "all barriers between the soul, blues, jazz and rock genres". The songs chosen went back to his days with Them with versions of "Gloria" and "Here Comes the Night". His first solo hit "Brown Eyed Girl" was performed but not included on the album until the reissue in 2008. M. Mark called the album "an intelligent selection of songs that draws on six of Morrison's records and five of the musicians he learned from." These musicians were Bobby Bland ("Ain't Nothing You Can Do"), Ray Charles ("I Believe to My Soul"), Sam Cooke ("Bring It On Home to Me"), two songs by Sonny Boy Williamson II ("Help Me" and "Take Your Hands Out of My Pocket") and a cover of a Willie Dixon song, "I Just Want to Make Love to You", which was popularized by Muddy Waters.
Links: a. Liner notes b. Here Comes the Night c. Brown Eyed Girl d. Brown Eyed Girl
Solution: | c |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you're given a context passage. Your job is to generate relevant questions that can be answered by directly referring to the passage.
See one example below:
Problem: Tracy slept awkwardly on their new bed and was having some pain, so Tracy cracked her neck.
Solution: What did Tracy do with her neck?
Explanation: The question asked is relevant and can be directly answered by referring to the phrase "so Tracy cracked her neck" from the passage.
Problem: Alex paid the part time actor to go over the details of the play they were in.
Solution: | How would you describe Alex? |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given news articles and you need to generate a highlight, i.e., a short summary, with a maximum length of 10 lines.
PROBLEM: (CNN) -- A Florida judge sentenced Rachel Wade, the 20-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight last year, to 27 years in prison Friday. While acknowledging mitigating factors -- primarily Wade's youth and lack of a criminal past -- the judge said her actions were not "unaggravating." "The murder was no accident," Judge Joseph Bulone said. Wade went to trial in July, accused of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 18-year-old Sarah Ludemann. The two women, only teenagers at the time, had fought for months via voicemails, text messages and MySpace postings over their relationship with the same man, Joshua Camacho. The feud culminated in a fatal confrontation in the early morning hours of April 15, 2009. After a three-day trial and only two and a half hours of deliberation, a jury of five men and one woman convicted Wade of second-degree murder. Wade had claimed self-defense and hoped for an acquittal or no more than a manslaughter conviction. A life sentence was recommended by Florida prosecutors. The defense had recommended 15 years, followed by 15 years of probation. TruTV's "In Session" correspondent Beth Karas spoke to Wade days before her sentencing. "I think about it every day, regardless if they give me five years or 20 years more than they could give me," Wade said. "I never meant to do it, and I'm still gonna have to live with it, no matter if I'm home or if I'm in prison." Wade's lawyer told HLN Friday that the sentence was "very fair." "I just don't think this was a case that called for life," said Jay Hebert. Hebert said the case is a cautionary tale about the potentially deadly mix of young people and modern communications technology. "When you start looking at the tragic nature of this, the social networking, the instant messaging, the ability of people to hide behind the screen and make statements and create situations -- it just festered until it bubbled up and exploded into a situation... until two good girls, their worlds collided," he said. Hebert said Wade has resolved to teach young people about the dangers associated with social networking. "I don't think we can appreciate how young people talk," he said. "And that's the lesson for parents. Pay close attention to your children. Watch how they talk and who they talk to. Watch their social networking outlets." "Because it's an explosive situation when when you don't have to be accountable, when you can break up with somebody or ask somebody to prom via text," he said. "There's no face-to-face interaction." In Session Correspondent Beth Karas contributed to this report.
SOLUTION: NEW: Defendant Rachel Wade's lawyer says sentence is "very fair"
Wade sentenced in April 2009 stabbing death of Sarah Ludemann .
Wade was convicted of second-degree murder .
The two women were involved with the same man .
PROBLEM: LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's family and about 200 of their closest friends gathered on a hill Thursday evening for their final farewell to the pop singer, who died 10 weeks ago. Thursday's service for singer Michael Jackson began 90 minutes past the announced start time. Jackson's burial may lay to rest some of the mystery and controversy that erupted with his sudden death on June 25. His large family was divided over where the superstar's final resting place should be, but matriarch Katherine Jackson settled on a crypt inside the well-guarded and ornate Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California. Thursday's service began 90 minutes past the announced start time, leaving dozens of celebrities -- including Elizabeth Taylor -- waiting in their seats for the 26 cars carrying the Jackson clan to arrive. Gallery: Invitation for Jackson's service » . It began with Jackson's five brothers -- each wearing a single sequined glove -- carrying his flower-covered bronze casket onto the outdoor stage among six large bouquets of white lilies and white roses, along with green topiaries. His three children, led by daughter, Paris, 11, placed a crown atop their father's coffin, which a family spokesman said it was "to signify the final resting place of the King of Pop." Jackson's children, parents and siblings took their seats in the front row, while his nieces and nephews filled several rows of white chairs behind them. After an opening prayer by Pastor Lucius Smith, soul music legend Gladys Knight sang the gospel hymn "His Eye Is on the Sparrow." Clifton Davis sang "Never Can Say Goodbye," a hit he wrote for The Jackson 5 -- the group that featured a young Michael and his brothers. What was said by Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, and others who took the lectern is not publicly known, because the family barred news cameras from the ceremony. A family statement issued afterward said close friends and family, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, spoke "spontaneously to celebrate Michael's life." News helicopters hovering above captured video from a distance, but without sound. Watch media cover Jackson funeral » . Lisa Marie Presley, one of Jackson's former wives and the daughter of Elvis, attended the service, according to the family statement. It did not mention Debbie Rowe, Jackson's second wife and the mother of his two oldest children. Macaulay Culkin, the "Home Alone" actor who spent time with Jackson during his Neverland Ranch days, was there with his girlfriend, actress Mila Kunis. Actors Corey Feldman and Chris Tucker were also seen arriving for the service. Motown founder Berry Gordy, who gave Jackson and his brothers their first big record deal, and Quincy Jones, who produced Jackson's "Thriller" album, were there. Music producer Teddy Riley, who helped with Jackson's 1991 "Dangerous" album, attended. The guest list included TV executive Suzanne de Passe, who produced a miniseries about Jackson's family, and Kenny Ortega, who was producing Jackson's comeback show. Thomas Mesereau, the lawyer who successfully defended Jackson in a child molestation trial, sat just behind the Jackson family. When the hour-long service ended, his brothers lifted Jackson's casket for a final time to carry him inside the Great Mausoleum, where he was placed in his crypt at 9:43 p.m. PT (12:43 a.m. ET Friday). The family statement said it was "his final resting place." The family and friends then drove to an Italian restaurant eight miles away, in Pasadena, California, for "a time of celebration." The massive mausoleum, the final resting place for Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and dozens of other celebrities, is normally open to tourists, though the public is denied close access to crypts. Security guards, aided by cameras, keep constant vigil over the graves and crypts, which are surrounded by a world-class collection of art and architecture. The Forest Lawn Web site boasts that the mausoleum, which draws its architectural inspiration from the Campo Santo in Italy, "has been called the 'New World's Westminster Abbey' by Time Magazine." Visitors will see "exact replicas of Michelangelo's greatest works such as David, Moses, and La Pieta" and "Leonardo da Vinci's immortal Last Supper re-created in brilliant stained glass; two of the world's largest paintings," the Web site says. Jackson's burial was delayed by division among family members, though Katherine Jackson would make the final decision, brother Jermaine Jackson recently told CNN. He preferred to see his youngest brother laid to rest at his former Neverland Ranch home, north of Los Angeles in Santa Barbara County, California. That idea was complicated by neighbors who vowed to oppose allowing a grave in the rural area -- and by Jackson family members who said the singer would not want to return to the home where he faced child molestation charges, of which he was ultimately acquitted. The mystery of where Jackson would be buried became a media obsession in the weeks after his death. After his body was loaded onto a helicopter at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center hours after his June 25 death, it stayed in the custody of the Los Angeles County coroner for an autopsy. It was only later disclosed that Jackson's corpse was kept in a refrigerated room at the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn cemetery until his casket was carried by motorcade to downtown Los Angeles for a public memorial service in the Staples Center arena. Again, speculation about Jackson's whereabouts grew when the media lost track of his casket after his brothers carried it out of sight inside the arena. It was only recently confirmed that it was taken back to the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn while awaiting his family's decision. Though Thursday's interment may settle one Jackson mystery, a more serious one remains. The coroner announced last week that he had ruled Jackson's death a homicide. A summary of the coroner's report said the anesthetic propofol and the sedative lorazepam were the primary drugs responsible for the singer's death. Los Angeles police detectives have not concluded their criminal investigation and no one has been charged.
SOLUTION: Jackson's three kids, led by daughter, Paris, placed a crown atop their father's coffin .
Clifton Davis sang "Never Can Say Goodbye," a hit he wrote for The Jackson 5 .
Guests included Elizabeth Taylor, Lisa Marie Presley and Macaulay Culkin .
PROBLEM: (CNN) -- The body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will eventually be displayed publicly "just like Lenin (and) Mao Zedong," the country's vice president said Thursday on state-run TV. "The body of our leader will be embalmed, and it will ... be surrounded by crystal glass forever, present forever, and always with his people," Nicolas Maduro said. Maduro will be sworn in as interim president in a special session of the National Assembly at 7 p.m. Friday, said National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello on Thursday on Venezuelan state broadcaster VTV. The funeral for Chavez, who died at 58 Tuesday after a battle with cancer, will be held Friday in the capital, Caracas. Attendees are expected to include Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Cuban leader Raul Castro and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Maduro said. Venezuela is slated to hold elections 30 days after Chavez died, according to Foreign Minister Elias Jaua. Hugo Chavez's death draws sympathy, anger . Maduro did not say when Chavez's final resting place, at a military museum, will be ready. But people still will be able to view Chavez's body -- lying in state in a wooden casket at a military academy in the capital -- for at least another week, he said. "Everybody can see him without any limits," Maduro said. "We want anyone who wants to see him to have the chance to do so." The South American nation is in a seven-day period of mourning, with schools closed for the week. Chavez's body later will be displayed much like the remains of former revolutionary leaders Vladimir Lenin of Russia and China's Mao, Maduro said. Venezuelans line streets for Chavez procession . CNN's Esprit Smith contributed to this report.
SOLUTION: | Nicolas Maduro to be sworn in Friday as interim president .
Chavez, who had cancer, died at 58 on Tuesday; the funeral is set for Friday .
Chavez's body "will be surrounded by crystal glass forever," Maduro says .
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Given the following passage "The mandolin orchestras never completely went away, however. In fact, along with all the other musical forms the mandolin is involved with, the mandolin ensemble (groups usually arranged like the string section of a modern symphony orchestra, with first mandolins, second mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos, mando-basses, and guitars, and sometimes supplemented by other instruments) continues to grow in popularity. Since the mid-nineties, several public-school mandolin-based guitar programs have blossomed around the country, including Fretworks Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra, the first of its kind. The national organization, Classical Mandolin Society of America, founded by Norman Levine, represents these groups. Prominent modern mandolinists and composers for mandolin in the classical music tradition include Samuel Firstman, Howard Fry, Rudy Cipolla, Dave Apollon, Neil Gladd, Evan Marshall, Marilynn Mair and Mark Davis (the Mair-Davis Duo), Brian Israel, David Evans, Emanuil Shynkman, Radim Zenkl, David Del Tredici and Ernst Krenek.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What is the first name of the mandolin musician with the surname Shynkman?
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Answer: Emanuil
Given the following passage "Beginning in 2005, the CBC has contributed production funds for the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who, for which it received a special credit at the end of each episode. This arrangement continued until the end of fourth season, broadcast in 2008. The CBC similarly contributed to the first season of the spin-off series, Torchwood. More recently, the network has also begun picking up Canadian rights to some Australian series, including the drama series Janet King and Love Child, and the comedy-drama series Please Like Me.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Doctor Who was produced with the aid of?
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Answer: CBC
Given the following passage "In the early 21st century, Republican voters control most of the state, especially in the more rural and suburban areas outside of the cities; Democratic strength is mostly confined to the urban cores of the four major cities, and is particularly strong in the cities of Nashville and Memphis. The latter area includes a large African-American population. Historically, Republicans had their greatest strength in East Tennessee before the 1960s. Tennessee's 1st and 2nd congressional districts, based in the Tri-Cities and Knoxville, respectively, are among the few historically Republican districts in the South. Those districts' residents supported the Union over the Confederacy during the Civil War; they identified with the GOP after the war and have stayed with that party ever since. The 1st has been in Republican hands continuously since 1881, and Republicans (or their antecedents) have held it for all but four years since 1859. The 2nd has been held continuously by Republicans or their antecedents since 1859.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: When did Republicans have their greatest historical strength?
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Answer: | in East Tennessee before the 1960s |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question. You have to answer the question based on your information.
Problem:This South Korean film starring Huh Joon-ho came out in what year?
Solution: | 2003 |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you're given a context passage, followed by a question that needs to be answered. Based on the paragraph, you must write unambiguous answers to the questions and your answer must refer to a specific phrase from the paragraph. If multiple answers seem to exist, write the answer that is the most plausible.
Succession is now regulated by laws passed by the National Diet. The current law excludes women from the succession. A change to this law had been considered until Princess Kiko gave birth to a son. Until the birth of Prince Hisahito, son of Prince Akishino, on September 6, 2006, there was a potential succession problem, since Prince Akishino was the only male child to be born into the imperial family since 1965. Following the birth of Princess Aiko, there was public debate about amending the current Imperial Household Law to allow women to succeed to the throne. In January 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed a special panel composed of judges, university professors, and civil servants to study changes to the Imperial Household Law and to make recommendations to the government. The panel dealing with the succession issue recommended on October 25, 2005, amending the law to allow females of the male line of imperial descent to ascend the Japanese throne. On January 20, 2006, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi devoted part of his annual keynote speech to the controversy, pledging to submit a bill allowing women to ascend the throne to ensure that the succession continues in the future in a stable manner. Shortly after the announcement that Princess Kiko was pregnant with her third child, Koizumi suspended such plans. Her son, Prince Hisahito, is the third in line to the throne under the current law of succession. On January 3, 2007, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced that he would drop the proposal to alter the Imperial Household Law.
Question: Who was born first, Prince Hisahito or Prince Akishino?
Output: | Prince Akishino |
Problem: To clean better, Johnny replaced his regular toothbrush with an electric toothbrush. The
OPTIONS:
- electric toothbrush cleaned better.
- regular toothbrush cleaned better.
My choice: electric toothbrush cleaned better.
Problem: Steven was not able to buy a suit today, but William was. This is because
OPTIONS:
- Steven didn't have any money.
- William didn't have any money.
My choice: Steven didn't have any money.
Problem: More people sat near Samuel than Matthew although
OPTIONS:
- Samuel was known for having bad gas.
- Matthew was known for having bad gas.
My choice: Samuel was known for having bad gas.
Problem: Jason did bathroom renovation for Michael, later his house failed inspection when
OPTIONS:
- Jason wanted to sell the house.
- Michael wanted to sell the house.
My choice: | Michael wanted to sell the house. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
Answer the question from the given passage. Your answer should be directly extracted from the passage, and it should be a single entity, name, or number, not a sentence.
Passage: Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, one of 12 nuns he had helped escape from the Nimbschen Cistercian convent in April 1523, when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels. Suddenly, and while I was occupied with far different thoughts, he wrote to Wenceslaus Link, “the Lord has plunged me into marriage. At the time of their marriage, Katharina was 26 years old and Luther was 41 years old. Question: In a letter who did Luther credit for his union with Katharina?
Solution: the Lord
Why? The paragraph clearly states that, Luther has credited the Lord for his union with Katharina, hence the Lord is correct answer.
New input: Passage: Anti-inflammatory drugs are often used to control the effects of inflammation. Glucocorticoids are the most powerful of these drugs; however, these drugs can have many undesirable side effects, such as central obesity, hyperglycemia, osteoporosis, and their use must be tightly controlled. Lower doses of anti-inflammatory drugs are often used in conjunction with cytotoxic or immunosuppressive drugs such as methotrexate or azathioprine. Cytotoxic drugs inhibit the immune response by killing dividing cells such as activated T cells. However, the killing is indiscriminate and other constantly dividing cells and their organs are affected, which causes toxic side effects. Immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporin prevent T cells from responding to signals correctly by inhibiting signal transduction pathways. Question: What are two examples of cytotoxic or immunosuppressive drugs?
Solution: | methotrexate or azathioprine |
It is a plain fact that we are in a world where competition is going on in all areas and at all levels. This is exciting.Yet,on the other hand,competition breezes a pragmatic attitude.People choose to learn things that are useful,and do things that are profitable.Today's college education is also affected by this general sense of utilitarianism . Many colleges students choose Business,Law not Computer Programming as their majors convinced that these professions are where the big money is.It is not unusual to see the college students taking a part--time job as a warm--up for the real battle.I often see my friends taking GRE tests,working on English or computer certificates and taking the driving tests to get a license.Well,I have nothing against being practical.As the competition in the job market gets more and more severe,students do have reasons to be practical. However,we should never forget that college education is much more than skill training.Just imagine,if your utilitarianism becomes the main trend on campus,leaving no space for the cultivation of students' minds,or development of their soul.We will see university is training out well--trained spiritless working machines.If utilitarianism controls society,we will see people lost in the money--making adventures;we will see humanity losing their grace and dignity,and that,would be disastrous.I'd like to think society as encouraging and people regard profit or fame only as a horse that pulls the courage.Yet without the driver picking direction,the courage would go straight and may even end out in a dangerous situation. A certificate may give you some advantages,but not broad horizons,positive attitudes and personal integrity ,which are the wealth you cannot acquire through any quick fixed way. Although in today's world,the highest level of competition may not be that of skills or expertise ,but vision and strategy, your intellectual quality largely determines how far you can go in your career. The author does strongly suggest that _ . A) more competition be encouraged on college campus. B) people not ignore the value of broad horizons,positive attitudes and personal integrity. C) intellectual quality determine how far one can go in his career. D) college students get as many part--time jobs as possible.
B
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A sure way to destroy your chances of learning how to write skillfully is to believe that writing is a "natural gift" rather than a learned skill. People with such an attitude think that they are the only ones for whom writing is unbearably difficult. They feel that everyone else finds writing easy or at least tolerable. Such people often say, "I'm not any good at writing" or "English was not one of my good subjects." They imply that they simply do not have a talent for writing while others do. The result of this attitude is that these people try to avoid writing, and when they do write, they don't try their best. Their writing fails chiefly because they believe that they don't have the "natural talent" needed to write. Unless their attitude changes, they probably will not learn how to write effectively. A realistic attitude about writing must build on the idea that writing is a skill. It is a skill like driving, typing, or cooking; and, like any skill, it can be learned. If you have the determination to learn, you will develop your writing skills by practicing extensively. Many people find it difficult to do the active thinking that clear writing demands. It is frustrating to discover how much of a challenge it is to transfer thoughts and feelings from one's head onto a sheet of paper. But writing is not an automatic process: We will not get something for nothing -- and we should not expect to. For almost everyone, skillful writing comes from hard work -- from determination and sweat. The good news is that the skill of writing can be mastered, and if you are ready to work, you will learn what you need to know. It can be inferred from Para. 1 that _ . A) "natural gift" is the determining factor in one's success B) diligence can result in success C) a person without "natural gift" is sure to fail in writing D) attitude determines what one will be
D
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For new countries joining the European Union, and older ones getting used to their dark red passports, becoming "Europeans" is a bit like marrying into a large, eccentric family. Europeans have a lot in common but it is their differences, not their similarities, that attract the attention of sociologists and market researchers, and are more interesting. * 35% of Germans live alone, but only 9% of Spaniards. Perhaps this explains why Spaniards lead Europe in the habit of going out for a drink. * The British attend more adult evening classes than anyone else in Europe, and the Belgians least. So it can't just be the dark evenings. There are no figures on how many Britons go for a drink afterwards. If there were, they might be up at the top with Spain! * The British think black cats are lucky. Every other European country regards them unlucky. * The Dutch and Germans are the greatest caravaners , but the Germans like bigger beds in their caravans. * The French are the most athletic Europeans. Next come the Dutch. But the Belgians, just over the border, play fewest sports. * The Germans spend twice as much on heating as the Spaniards. Well, of course they do, it's colder. * Dutch husbands do the household shopping a lot more often than Italians or Spaniards. * The French are the champion public transport commuters of Europe. If you hate commuting, go and live in the Netherlands, where journeys to work are shorter than anywhere else. * The amount of direct eye-contact between strangers is three times greater among Spaniards than it is among the British or Swedes. Sharing a lift is torture for both the British and the Swedish. * No European countries really agree with any other about how to make good coffee. All of them are different. There are exceptions to all these rules. Deal with them in the spirit of my 8-year-old daughter. "If you don't understand each other's language, you just laugh a lot, and eat, and point at things." Which of the following statements is TRUE about Spain? A) Spaniards hate direct eye-contact between strangers. B) Spaniards like to go for a drink after dark. C) Spaniards spend twice as much on heating as the Germans. D) In Spain, husbands do more household shopping than those in Italy.
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Find the right ending to this passage.
One million worshippers from all over the world have gathered in Rome ahead of the ‘unprecedented’ double canonisation of two former popes. Over the last 24 hours, crowds have arrived and camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter’s Square. The ceremony, to be held later today, will be an unprecedented event in Catholic history, as two living Popes will be in attendance – the current Pope Francis I and Benedict XVI, who stood down last year and now holds the title Pope Emeritus. Crowds have camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter¿s Square
OPTIONS:
- Benedict XVI, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Canonisation, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Catholic, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Catholic Church, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Emeritus, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Francis I, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- John Paul II, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- John XXIII, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Pope, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Popes, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Rome, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- St Peter's Square, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- St Peter¿s Square, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- St Peter’s Square, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Vatican, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
- Vatican City, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.
| Francis I, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict. |
Q:What is the question to: "Christian Bale reprises the lead role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, with a returning cast of Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth , Gary Oldman as James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox ."? The topic is The Dark Knight (film).
A: | "who played batman in dark knight?" |
Given the following passage "Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps best known for their efforts to spread their beliefs, most notably by visiting people from house to house, distributing literature published by the Watch Tower Society in 700 languages. The objective is to start a regular "Bible study" with any person who is not already a member, with the intention that the student be baptized as a member of the group; Witnesses are advised to consider discontinuing Bible studies with students who show no interest in becoming members. Witnesses are taught they are under a biblical command to engage in public preaching. They are instructed to devote as much time as possible to their ministry and are required to submit an individual monthly "Field Service Report". Baptized members who fail to report a month of preaching are termed "irregular" and may be counseled by elders; those who do not submit reports for six consecutive months are termed "inactive".", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Who distributes literature?
Answer: | Witnesses |
*Question*
I loved the little guy from the day she brought him home. She carried him wrapped in a sweatshirt from the shelter at the corner where she'd been saying for months she was going to go. She set him down on the hardwood floor and he clipped around like a fawn - - clip, clip -- looking through doorways and carefully eyeing us both. He was tiny but he was strong. He was muscular and sleek, like a miniature greyhound, and we both watched intently as he clipped around, soldiering things out and whining under his breath. Miss Tennessee looked at me and smiled and said: "Well honey? What do you think?" And I told her: "I love the little guy." He was never really my dog. He was more like my step-dog, but together we named him Steve. We thought it was funny, giving a dog a man's name like that. But it fit, like Miss Tennessee, which I started just to tease her about being full-grown and long- legged and pretty, but in a tomboyish way that made it both absolutely ridiculous and absolutely plausible that she had ever been Miss Anything. It always made her swallow a grin. Steve's name, on the other hand, made it sound like he wasn't a dog at all, but this little man. Miss Tennessee often called him that: the little man. Steve liked me okay but he loved Miss Tennessee. With me it was man things. After he got snipped or when he was stung by bees, down there, in grass that came up to his chin, he would come sit by me, hoping I'd understand. With her, it was everything else. When she took a bath, he stood with his paws on the side of the tub, and when she went someplace he couldn't go he stood where he last saw her and waited. If she went into a store and left us together in the car, he stood with his paws on the dashboard, waiting and crying and looking at me like maybe I was to blame. Question: What does the author think of Steve when he first saw him? Options: - That he was funny. - That he was long-legged . - That he was tiny. - not enough information === The correct answer is
**Answer**
That he was tiny.
*Question*
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has unveiled a far-reaching list of demands for any new nuclear deal with Iran, and threatened economy-crushing sanctions if Tehran does not change its behavior. The 12-point list of demands came in a Monday speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation that laid out the Trump administration's strategy after pulling out of the Iran nuclear agreement earlier this month. Under any new deal, Pompeo insisted, Iran must indefinitely abandon nuclear weapons work and provide United Nations inspectors access to sites anywhere in the country.He said Tehran must also end its proliferation of ballistic missiles and stop its "destabilizing activities" across the Middle East. If Iran does not change course, the U.S. "will apply unprecedented financial pressure," Pompeo warned. "These will be the strongest sanctions in history by the time we are done," said Pompeo. "The [Iranian] regime has been fighting all over the Middle East for years. After our sanctions come into full force, it will be battling to keep its economy alive." Iran's President Hassan Rouhani dismissed the threats. "Who are you to decide for Iran and the world?" Rouhani said in a statement published by Iranian state media on Monday. "The world today does not accept that the United States decides for the world. Countries have their independence." The Trump administration has vowed to reimpose sanctions that were lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear agreement, which was signed between Iran, the United States, and several European countries, as well as Russia and China. Washington has also imposed additional sanctions. European countries are holding talks with Iran to try to salvage the deal. But it's not clear whether the effort can succeed. On Sunday, Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, said the European Union's "political will is not enough to preserve the deal.” EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini reacted to Pompeo's speech Monday by saying there is "no alternative" to the existing agreement, formally... Question: What will sanctions do to Iran? Options: - Cause the US and Iran to go to war - crush its economy - not enough information - Nothing === The correct answer is
**Answer**
crush its economy
*Question*
If you turned on the TV towards the end of 2002 you could have been forgiven for thinking that Britain had gone absolutely horseshit mental. Every week, it seemed, another pretty young girl from a nice family, who was happy and popular and always did well at school, was being kidnapped or murdered by what the Sun newspaper cheerfully termed 'evil paedo scum'. Naming and shaming was as popular a feature in the Murdoch press as Page Three girls and discounted holidays to Butlin's. Of course you can't blame parents for wanting to keep their children safe; that's pretty much the job description of a parent. And, on the face of it, the tabloids were doing a public service in warning us about the paedophile menace lurking in our midst. The problem came when it turned out that a huge number of these concerned tabloid-reading parents were also absolute fucking morons. For every story of an actual sex offender being driven from their house by a baying mob there was one like that of Dr Yvette Cloete, a doctor at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, South Wales, who returned home from work to find that a group of 'concerned parents' had daubed the word 'paedo' on her front door in bright red paint. Dr Cloete was a consultant paediatrician. Easy mistake. If you're an absolute fucking moron. And so it was that one hung-over morning, after reading yet another story about vigilantes who had threatened to stone Maxine Carr, the girlfriend of Soham killer Ian Huntley, to death during her high-profile trial for perverting the course of justice, I decided to set up a website parodying this collective national madness. The result of two or three hours of hung-over labour was thinkofthechildren.co.uk, a spoof campaign site which claimed to offer a handy online guide for crazy vigilantes of all stripes to co-ordinate their crazy vigilante efforts. Although there are a few parts of the site I'm still a bit proud of, the majority of it was, I freely admit, satire of the lowest order. Question: What color paint did the vandals use? Options: - Red - Blue - not enough information - Yellow === The correct answer is
**Answer**
| Red |
This is some data: Bakso REGION Indonesia; Bakso MAIN_INGREDIENTS "Ground beef, tapioca, noodle, rice vermicelli, beef broth, kailan, celery, salted vegetables, fried shallots"; Bakso COUNTRY Chinese cuisine; Bakso INGREDIENT Vermicelli.
Generate a detailed description of this data | Bakso is made in China and is found in Indonesia. The main ingredients are ground beef, tapioca, noodle, rice vermicelli, beef broth, kailan, celery, salted vegetables, and fried shallots. |
Problem: The sun was covered by a thick cloud all morning, but luckily, by the time the picnic started, *it* was out.
Are "it" and "The sun" the same?
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Answer: yes
Problem: The donkey wished a wart on its hind leg would disappear, and *it* did.
Are "it" and "wart" the same?
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Answer: yes
Problem: Anna did a lot better than her good friend Lucy on the test because *she* had studied so hard.
Are "she" and "Anna" the same?
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Answer: | yes |
Determine the topic of the passage. "The winning designer, Chloe Dao , received $100,000 in seed money to help launch her own line, a 2007 Saturn Sky roadster, a spread in ELLE magazine, and a mentorship with the Banana Republic Design Team." Topic:
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Answer: Project Runway (season 2)
Determine the topic of the passage. "In poker , bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player with what appear to be strong cards nevertheless loses." Topic:
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Answer: Bad beat
Determine the topic of the passage. "The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £560 million ($798 million), ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in the United Kingdom." Topic:
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Answer: | J. K. Rowling |
Q:Given the below context: As far as we know, the earliest cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach were performed in Mühlhausen from 1706 to 1708. He was employed as an organist there, but he occasionally composed cantatas, mostly for special occasions. The cantatas were based mainly on biblical texts and hymns, such as Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 (a psalm setting), and the Easter chorale cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4. Bach was next appointed organist and chamber musician in Weimar on 25 June 1708 at the court of the co-reigning dukes in Saxe-Weimar, Wilhelm Ernst and his nephew Ernst August. He initially concentrated on the organ, composing major works for the instrument, including the Orgelbüchlein, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, and the Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV 566. He was promoted to Konzertmeister on 2 March 1714, an honour that entailed performing a church cantata monthly in the Schlosskirche. The first cantatas he composed in the new position were Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182, for Palm Sunday, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 for Jubilate Sunday, and Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172, for Pentecost. Mostly inspired by texts by the court poet, Salomo Franck, they contain recitatives and arias. When Johann Samuel Drese, the Kapellmeister (director of music), died in 1716, Bach hoped in vain to become his successor. Bach looked for a better position and found it as Kapellmeister at the court of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. However, the duke in Weimar did not dismiss him and arrested him for disobedience. He was released on 2 December 1717.In Köthen, Bach found an employer who was an enthusiastic musician himself. The court was Calvinist, therefore Bach's work from this period was mostly secular, including the orchestral suites, the cello suites, the sonatas and partitas for solo violin, and the Brandenburg Concertos. He composed secular cantatas for the court for occasions such as New Year's Day and the prince's birthday, including Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV... Guess a valid title for it!
A: | Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22 |
Please answer the following question: I know that the answer to the question "what is the foundation of one's religious practice?" is in "Traditionally, the first step in most Buddhist schools requires taking refuge in the Three Jewels (Sanskrit: tri-ratna, Pāli: ti-ratana)[web 19] as the foundation of one's religious practice. The practice of taking refuge on behalf of young or even unborn children is mentioned in the Majjhima Nikaya, recognized by most scholars as an early text (cf. Infant baptism). Tibetan Buddhism sometimes adds a fourth refuge, in the lama. In Mahayana, the person who chooses the bodhisattva path makes a vow or pledge, considered the ultimate expression of compassion. In Mahayana, too, the Three Jewels are perceived as possessed of an eternal and unchanging essence and as having an irreversible effect: "The Three Jewels have the quality of excellence. Just as real jewels never change their faculty and goodness, whether praised or reviled, so are the Three Jewels (Refuges), because they have an eternal and immutable essence. These Three Jewels bring a fruition that is changeless, for once one has reached Buddhahood, there is no possibility of falling back to suffering.". Can you tell me what it is?
A: | taking refuge |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Dextrocardia (from Latin dexter, meaning ``right,'' and Greek kardia, meaning ``heart'') is a rare congenital condition in which the apex of the heart is located on the right side of the body. There are two main types of dextrocardia: dextrocardia of embryonic arrest (also known as isolated dextrocardia ) and dextrocardia situs inversus. Dextrocardia situs inversus is further divided.
Output: | can a person have their heart on the right side? |
You are given a sentence and a question. You're expected to write the correct answer based on the sentence.
[EX Q]: Sentence: A chain gets hotter when dragged across a garage floor then when dragged across a road. Question: Which surface forces the chain to experience more friction?
[EX A]: garage floor
[EX Q]: Sentence: Juan is injured in a car accident, which necessitates a hospital stay where he is unable to maintain the strength in his arm. Juan notices that his throwing arm feels extremely frail compared to the level of strength it had when he was healthy. Question: If Juan decides to throw a ball with his friend, when will his throw travel less distance?
[EX A]: When Juan's arm is weak after the hospital stay
[EX Q]: Sentence: Jimbo works out more the Kate and is the stronger person. Question: If both throw a basketball, which will make it travel the greater distance?
[EX A]: | Jimbo
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context from an academic paper and a question separated with a
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Problem:These features are typically obtained by training a deep neural network jointly on several languages for which labelled data is available. The bottom layers of the network are normally shared across all training languages. The network then splits into separate parts for each of the languages, or has a single shared output. The final output layer has phone labels or HMM states as targets. The final shared layer often has a lower dimensionality than the input layer, and is therefore referred to as a `bottleneck'.
Question: What are bottleneck features?
Solution: | Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese South African English These features are typically obtained by training a deep neural network jointly on several languages for which labelled data is available. The final shared layer often has a lower dimensionality than the input layer, and is therefore referred to as a `bottleneck'. |
Question: unacceptable
Answer: To him presented itself a wonderful opportunity.
Question: acceptable
Answer: The picture on the wall reminded him of his country.
Question: acceptable
Answer: This girl in the red coat will eat her breakfast before tomorrow and put a picture of Bill on your desk before tomorrow.
Question: acceptable
Answer: | Because he's such a nice guy, what would John like? |
In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics as passages and a question from the passage. We ask you to answer the question by classifying the answer as 0 (False) or 1 (True)
Ex Input:
Passage: Secession in the United States -- The Constitution does not directly mention secession. The legality of secession was hotly debated in the 19th century, with Southerners often claiming and Northerners generally denying that states have a legal right to unilaterally secede. The Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the Constitution to be an ``indestructible'' union. There is no legal basis a state can point to for unilaterally seceding. Many scholars hold that the Confederate secession was blatantly illegal. The Articles of Confederation explicitly state the Union is ``perpetual''; the U.S. Constitution declares itself an even ``more perfect union'' than the Articles of Confederation. Other scholars, while not necessarily disagreeing that the secession was illegal, point out that sovereignty is often de facto an ``extralegal'' question. Had the Confederacy won, any illegality of its actions under U.S. law would have been rendered irrelevant, just as the undisputed illegality of American rebellion under the British law of 1775 was rendered irrelevant. Thus, these scholars argue, the illegality of unilateral secession was not firmly de facto established until the Union won the Civil War; in this view, the legal question was resolved at Appomattox.
Question: can a state secede from the united states of america
Ex Output:
0
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Passage: Twin -- Monozygotic twins are genetically nearly identical and they are always the same sex unless there has been a mutation during development. The children of monozygotic twins test genetically as half-siblings (or full siblings, if a pair of monozygotic twins reproduces with another pair or with the same person), rather than first cousins. Identical twins do not have the same fingerprints however, because even within the confines of the womb, the fetuses touch different parts of their environment, giving rise to small variations in their corresponding prints and thus making them unique.
Question: can identical twins be of the opposite gender
Ex Output:
1
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Passage: Golden goal -- The golden goal or golden point is a rule used in association football, bandy, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, floorball and korfball to decide the winner of a match (typically a knock-out match) in which scores are equal at the end of normal time. It is a type of sudden death. Under this rule, the game will end when a goal or point is scored; the team that scores that goal or point during extra time will be the winner. Introduced formally in 1992, though with some history before that, the rule ceased to apply to most FIFA-authorized football games in 2004. The similar silver goal supplemented the golden goal between 2002 and 2004.
Question: is the world cup golden goal extra time
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Q:Have you ever wondered whether it’s worth your while to encourage an older person to start exercising? In 2014, the top-notch journal JAMA published the results of a fantastic research project: a study in which 1635 sedentary older adults (aged 70-89) were assigned to get either a structured exercise program, or a program of “successful aging” health education. The researchers called it the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders (LIFE) study. (You can read the full study here.) During the LIFE study, the two groups were followed for a little over 2.5 years. And by the end of the study, guess which group of volunteers was more likely to still walk a quarter of a mile (without a walker)? That’s right. When it came to avoiding “major mobility disability” — which the researchers defined as becoming unable to walk 400 meters or more — a structured exercise program was better than a program of healthy aging education. Specifically, the researchers found that 30% of the exercisers experienced a period of major disability, compared to 35.5% of the seniors enrolled in the healthy aging education program. This is a very encouraging finding! That said, it’s also a bit sobering to realize that even with exercise, almost 1 in 3 older adults experienced a period of limited mobility, of which half lasted 6 months or more. In this post, I’ll share some more details on this study, because the results provide a wonderful wealth of information that can be helpful to older adults, family caregivers, and even geriatricians such as myself. Want to know how often the exercisers experienced “adverse events”? (Hint: often!) Wondering just what the structured exercise program involved? (Hint: more than walking!) Let’s dig into the details! At the end of this post, I’ll share my list of key take-home points for older adults and family caregivers. Who were the study volunteers? Whenever you read about a research study, it’s important to understand how the study volunteers compare to the older adults in *your* life. One of... When the LIFE study was over, who walked better? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - neither group - not enough information - those in the exercise program - those in the healthy education group
A: | those in the exercise program |
Problem: Word: head
Sentence 1: She gave great head.
Sentence 2: They say he gives good head.
Same meaning? OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
A: the same meaning
Question: This question has options. Does the word "pay" have the same definition in the next 2 sentences?
You'll pay for this!
You'll pay for this opinion later.
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
Answer: the same meaning
Question: "work" used in the same way in the following two sentences?
The soft metal works well.
He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
Answer: different meanings
Q: Does "run" have the same meaning in the following two sentences?
Don't run that software unless you have permission.
Run rogue.
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
A: different meanings
Question: Here is one sentence: If you're going to beat your competitors, you need to focus.
Here is another sentence: We focused on what he wanted.
Does the focus mean the same thing in the two sentences?
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
Answer: the same meaning
Problem: Word: roll
Sentence 1: Roll your hair around your finger.
Sentence 2: The President's convoy rolled past the crowds.
Same meaning? OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
A: | different meanings |
Jackie Chan is starting to become like Chuck Norris, because he is getting close to the age that he retired in his career.
Who is "he" in this prior sentence(see options)?
Pick your answer from:
(i) Jackie Chan.
(ii) Chuck Norris. | (i) |
Given a context passage, generate a question from the passage such that its answer is shortest continous span from the passage.
Ex Input:
Restless legs syndrome (RLS), also known as Willis-Ekbom disease, is a sensory-motor neurological disorder with a circadian component. RLS is characterized by uncomfortable sensations in the extremities, generally at night or during sleep, which often leads to an uncontrollable urge to move them for relief. Recently, genomic studies identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms in BTBD9, along with three other genes, as being associated with a higher risk of RLS. Little is known about the function of BTBD9 or its potential role in the pathophysiology of RLS. We therefore examined a line of Btbd9 mutant mice we recently generated for phenotypes similar to symptoms found in RLS patients. We observed that the Btbd9 mutant mice had motor restlessness, sensory alterations likely limited to the rest phase, and decreased sleep and increased wake times during the rest phase. Additionally, the Btbd9 mutant mice had altered serum iron levels and monoamine neurotransmitter systems. Furthermore, the sensory alterations in the Btbd9 mutant mice were relieved using ropinirole, a dopaminergic agonist widely used for RLS treatment. These results, taken together, suggest that the Btbd9 mutant mice model several characteristics similar to RLS and would therefore be the first genotypic mouse model of RLS. Furthermore, our data provide further evidence that BTBD9 is involved in RLS, and future studies of the Btbd9 mutant mice will help shine light on its role in the pathophysiology of RLS. Finally, our data argue for the utility of Btbd9 mutant mice to discover and screen novel therapeutics for RLS.
Ex Output:
Willis-Ekbom disease is also known as?
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P&O European Ferries (formerly Townsend Thoresen), a division of P&O Ferries, was a ferry company which operated in the English Channel from 1987 after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, when Townsend Thoresen was renamed P&O European Ferries, until 1999 when the Portsmouth Operations became P&O Portsmouth and the Dover Operation where merged with Stena Line AB to make P&O Stena Line.
Ex Output:
What is the ending year of P&O European Ferries?
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Restless legs syndrome (RLS)/Willis-Ekbom disease (WED) is a common disorder, occurring at least twice a week and causing at least moderate distress in 1.5% to 2.7% of the population. It is important for primary care physicians to be familiar with this disorder and its management. Much has changed in its management since our previous algorithm was published in 2004, including the availability of several new drugs. This revised algorithm was written by members of the Medical Advisory Board of the Willis-Ekbom Disease Syndrome Foundation based on scientific evidence and expert opinion. It considers the management of RLS/WED under intermittent RLS/WED, chronic persistent RLS/WED, and refractory RLS/WED. Nonpharmacological approaches, including mental alerting activities, avoiding substances or medications that may exacerbate RLS, and the role of iron supplementation, are outlined. Chronic persistent RLS/WED should be treated with either a nonergot dopamine agonist or a calcium channel -2- ligand. We discuss the available drugs, the factors determining which to use, and their adverse effects. We define refractory RLS/WED and describe management approaches, including combination therapy and the use of high-potency opioids.
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| Willis-Ekbom disease is also known as?
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The sound of the clacking grew unbearable, so we turned the volume down. "Mute it." We muted it. "Turn it up; we might miss something." It's a silent movie. We won't miss anything. The sound of clacking gradually fills the room as my brother reluctantly turns up the volume. I can tell he's pressing hard on the button, jamming his thumb down in defiance or muted anger. He doesn't like for anyone to tell him what to do with the remote. But my grandmother wants the volume up, so we turn it up. We're all sitting along the edges of the tiny living room, staring at the fuzzy black-and-white images as they hazily walk across the television screen. I can hear a siren outside, barely discernable and then gone entirely. "Who's that?" my brother asks, evidently past his momentary and barely-noticeable indignation over the remote. "Uncle Arehl, and maybe his sister, Edna," my grandmother says, leaning in closer. "I think it's Edna," she says, in the tone of a doctor diagnosing a disease, as if the verdict was somehow relevant to someone who has only the vaguest idea who Arehl's sister is, or was. Uncle Arehl (I don't know precisely whose uncle he is, or for what the two initials of his name once stood) saunters slowly across a dry, patchy lawn, and the camera follows him. For some reason I'm more interested in the lawn--if it can be called that--than in the people on it. The sun in the movie is blazing, and everyone filmed looks only briefly at the camera before averting their faces once again to look at the stubbly grass. The camera pans once again and I can see an incredibly rutted path leading from the porch to the fence at the edge of the yard, broken pieces of concrete amid deep tire tracks fossilized in sun-baked mud. The fence is low, wire like a chain-link, but lower, with metal stakes holding it up instead of tubes. What did the lawn look like? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - Lush - Nice - not enough information - Dry and patchy.
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Dry and patchy.
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It's often difficult to remember how or why you became friends with someone, especially if you've been friends with a person forever. But because of the very specific set of circumstances, I remember exactly how Barend and I became friends. This, of course, was long before he became famous for inventing the easy-foldable map, and infamous for the series of bodies he'd decided to bury in his backyard. Barend and I became friends because he had one of the most attractive shadows I'd ever seen. I remember gazing out over the playground, watching a waning sun scatter its dying light over the monkey bars, the metal skeleton contrasting against the turquoise sky, when I noticed this kid coming toward me. He was one of those mostly invisible characters; faded jeans, dirty jacket, snot caked on his upper lip. I probably wouldn't have noticed him if not for his shadow. For some reason, his shadow immediately caught my eye. Now, I'm not one for noticing shadows in general, never really noticed a shadow before or since, but this kid had the most incredible shadow I'd ever seen. I cannot even put in words what that means. What specific set of properties make an ordinary shadow into an incredible one, I'm not sure anyone can, but his shadow was like a piece of art; I didn't necessarily understand it, but I liked it. And that's why this boring looking kid and I first became friends. Our kindergarten games were harmless and boring, but when puberty hit, Barend began to change. We were both expected to change, but I guess some kids just change more than others. Bared didn't want to kill at first. Like many overachievers in the death game, his first brush with the craft came about more or less accidentally. All the elements had been in place, with all the players and attributes coming together as if gathered by some evil force, but, even then, I really had to push the kid. When did the author become friends with Barend? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - after he started burying bodies in his backyard - not enough information - after he became famous for an easy foldable map, - Before he became famous for an easy-foldable map,
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Before he became famous for an easy-foldable map,
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Yes I had. In a domestic violence case (in which I was the accused, but by God I was innocent) with my ex girlfriend, the lawyer whom I hired and paid his dues, openly played a wheeling and dealing game for two and a half years with the prosecutor and had mercilessly thrown me in front of the prosecutor. My ex girlfriend was sexually abused by her own uncles at the age of 5 to 9, had a lot of illusions and psychological problems, along with Bi-Polar Disorder, however, dispite my requests, she never had ever visited a psychologist or psychiatrist in her then 24 years of lifetime, fearing she would be forced to unveil the uncles’ child sexual abuse act and this would cause her dismissal from her immediate family. Although I mentioned this to my “so called” lawyer, he refused to mention her unstable psychological condition in the court. I believe by doing so, he also committed a crime by preventing a child sexual abuse case go unveiled. After all these and after having me pushed into loosing my otherwise strong case, I was sentenced with restriction order to my own home, loosing all I had paid for it, loosing my stuff inside home, aforced probation and a forced domestic violence course for no good reason, my so called bloody lawyer also sent to the court a paper indicating that I owed to him and never had paid his dues. Disgusting wheeling and dealing quite often happen between such disgusting lawyers and greedy, heartless prosecutors; unfortunately! My psychologist friend at the time said, “If you are in Illinois, in Champaign County and you have a penis, you are already accepted as guilty by birth to start with dude”. They say “Sharks wouldn't attack and eat Lawyers after a ship sunk”. Why? It's professional courtesy! what is probably true about the man? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - he will kill his lawyer - he will have to spend time in prison - he's going to be a free man - not enough information
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| he will have to spend time in prison |
After the election of Marina Mora as Miss World Peru 2001/02. The Miss Perú Universe 2002 pageant was held on April 27, 2002. That year, just 12 candidates were competing for that national crown. The chosen winner represented Peru at the Miss Universe 2002 and for the first time at Miss Earth. The rest of the finalists would enter in different pageants.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
On April 27, 2002, the Miss Peru Universe 2002 pageant was held.
OPTIONS: -- Yes -- It's impossible to say -- No | Yes |
*Ans* advance knowledge
*Question* Computers have allowed everybody to answer questions they have quickly, but still we seem to be getting duller despite access to this what?
Options:
- economic boom
- advance knowledge
- produce sound
- teach
- follow instructions
*CoT* We seem to be getting duller and mentally slow because we are depending on computers to memorise and do calculations instead of doing them mentally.
*Ans* books and magazines
*Question* What is a kind of literature?
Options:
- newspaper
- books and magazines
- own home
- public library
- good homes
*CoT* Literatures can be read. Books and magaines are places with information that can be read.
*Ans* pass course
| *Question* The rich kid thought he could offer the professor money, and in turn the professor would let him what?
Options:
- spend
- pass course
- keep
- create art
- pocket
*CoT* Profeesors give marks that can be used to pass a course. |
QUESTION: Write another turn of this conversation. DIALOG:
What happened with Johnny Roventini in 1933?
- In April 1933, Roventini was hired to make a "Call for Phil-ip Mor-rees" on the different radio programs sponsored by the tobacco company.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
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ANS: Roventini had been earning $15 a week at the hotel and received $100 for his very first radio commercial.
QUESTION: Write another turn of this conversation. DIALOG:
What is Canon 1324?
- Canon 1324 Canon 1324 is a canon of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, according to which penalties prescribed in canon law must be diminished or replaced by a penance.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
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ANS: The canon does not automatically remove the penalty completely except in cases of "latae sententiae" (automatic) excommunication.
QUESTION: Write another turn of this conversation. DIALOG:
What is the Hiram Smith Hall and Annex?
- Hiram Smith Hall and Annex The Hiram Smith Hall and Annex is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
- What is significant about this?
- The hall and annex were built to hold what would be the first permanent dairy school found in the United States.
- Is there anything else that is notable?
- Since then, the site has also been used for other subjects including soil science and agricultural journalism.
- Who is it named after?
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ANS: Named for Hiram N.
QUESTION: Write another turn of this conversation. DIALOG:
Is Oculus going to appeal the verdict?
- While Oculus said "the jury found decisively in our favor" over the issue of trade secrets, the company plans to file an appeal on the other charges.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
- Carmack stated that he disagreed with the decision, particularly on ZeniMax's "characterization, misdirection, and selective omissions" regarding his behavior, adding that he had accounted for all the data in his possession.
- Why did they argue against that?
- Carmack took issue with one of ZeniMax's expert witnesses who testified that non-literal copying, the act of creating a program with similar functions but using different computer code, constitutes a copyright violation.
- What happened after the lawsuit?
- ZeniMax stated that it is considering a court-ordered halt to all Oculus Rift units in light of the jury decision; and on February 24, 2017, filed an injunction to have the court halt sales of the Oculus Rift and development kits.
- Did that injunction go into effect?
- Oral arguments for these injunctions were held on June 19, 2017.
- What did Zenimax do after the lawsuit?
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ANS: | ZeniMax argued that either Oculus should halt sales of the Rift, or otherwise receive 20% of all Rift sales over the next ten years. |
Q: In this task you will be given a passage and a yes/no question based on the passage. You should answer the question using the information from the passage.
passage: Tracy McConnell, better known as ``The Mother'', is the title character from the CBS television sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The show, narrated by Future Ted, tells the story of how Ted Mosby met The Mother. Tracy McConnell appears in 8 episodes from ``Lucky Penny'' to ``The Time Travelers'' as an unseen character; she was first seen fully in ``Something New'' and was promoted to a main character in season 9. The Mother is played by Cristin Milioti.
question: does how i met your mother ever show ted's wife?
A: | Yes |
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.
She volunteers for the National Academy of Sciences Science & Entertainment Exchange . | She volunteers for the National Academy of Sciences Science & Entertainment Exchange , providing subject matter expertise to the entertainment industry for more accurate depictions of science in the media . |
input question: Write a sentence.
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random sentence: The man drank water with his meal.
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random sentence: The fans in the stadium cheered.
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random sentence: The man threw out the bread.
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random sentence: | The teenager ran away from home. |
Create a set of triples that describes the content in the following sentence.
St. George's drew 0-0 to Qormi.
| St. George's QORMI 0-0 |
Definition: Given a sentence in English, provide an equivalent paraphrased version from the original that retains the same meaning.
Input: Just north of South Huntington , NY 110 enters an at-grade intersection with NY 25 ( West Jericho Turnpike ) in the hamlet of Walt Whitman Shops .
Output: | North of South Huntington , NY 110 enters an at-grade crossing with NY 25 ( West Jericho Turnpike ) in the hamlet of Walt Whitman Shops . |
Problem: What are the most important words?
a pizza topped with various topping on a plate
Answer: pizza, plate, top, topping
Problem: What are the most important words?
ways of carrying a handbag
Answer: carry, handbag, way
Problem: What are the most important words?
trees grow at this building
Answer: | building, grow, tree |
In this task, you are given a passage and a question regarding that passage. You must determine whether or not the question is answerable from the given passage. If a question is answerable, output should be 'True', otherwise 'False'. You must not consider any other information that is not provided in the passage while labelling True or False.
[Q]: Passage: The immune system is a system of many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. To function properly, an immune system must detect a wide variety of agents, known as pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, and distinguish them from the organism's own healthy tissue. In many species, the immune system can be classified into subsystems, such as the innate immune system versus the adaptive immune system, or humoral immunity versus cell-mediated immunity. In humans, the blood–brain barrier, blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier, and similar fluid–brain barriers separate the peripheral immune system from the neuroimmune system which protects the brain. Question: What connects the peripheral immune system to the neuroimmune system?
[A]: False
[Q]: Passage: Modern primality tests for general numbers n can be divided into two main classes, probabilistic (or "Monte Carlo") and deterministic algorithms. Deterministic algorithms provide a way to tell for sure whether a given number is prime or not. For example, trial division is a deterministic algorithm because, if performed correctly, it will always identify a prime number as prime and a composite number as composite. Probabilistic algorithms are normally faster, but do not completely prove that a number is prime. These tests rely on testing a given number in a partly random way. For example, a given test might pass all the time if applied to a prime number, but pass only with probability p if applied to a composite number. If we repeat the test n times and pass every time, then the probability that our number is composite is 1/(1-p)n, which decreases exponentially with the number of tests, so we can be as sure as we like (though never perfectly sure) that the number is prime. On the other hand, if the test ever fails, then we know that the number is composite. Question: What type of algorithm is trial division?
[A]: True
[Q]: Passage: This means that in a closed system of particles, there are no internal forces that are unbalanced. That is, the action-reaction force shared between any two objects in a closed system will not cause the center of mass of the system to accelerate. The constituent objects only accelerate with respect to each other, the system itself remains unaccelerated. Alternatively, if an external force acts on the system, then the center of mass will experience an acceleration proportional to the magnitude of the external force divided by the mass of the system.:19-1 Question: In an open system of particles, there are no internal what?
[A]: | False
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Question: They may be out of bed, but for some they don't what until they eat breakfast? Options: - set an alarm - open mouth - prepare breakfast - wake up - buy food The answer is "wake up" because
Ans: this word is more relevant
Question: What do people want to feel more than anything? Options: - hurry home - appreciated - laugh out loud - feel loved - thank god The answer is "feel loved" because
Ans: hurry home appreciated feel loved
Question: The patient was recovering well but still had a long recovery ahead, while chatting with friends he explained all the what? Options: - laughter - discomfort - glee - fun - inspiration The answer is "discomfort" because
Ans: if it will take you a while to get better you do not feel great.
Question: Those who cut themselves despite being warned that an object is sharp could be called what? Options: - unobservant - facecious - complimentary - inelegant - inaccurate The answer is "unobservant" because
| Ans: unobservant | definition of unobservant by merriam-webster |
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]: (CNN) An Australian senator with close ties to a prominent Chinese businessman and political donor has stepped down amid growing concerns about China's influence over Australian politics. Opposition Labor party Senator Sam Dastyari announced his resignation early Tuesday morning after weeks of pressure, saying he wanted to spare his party further distraction. "I have always honored my parliamentary oath, I've always acted with integrity and I remain a loyal patriotic Australian," Dastyari told reporters as he announced his resignation. The Dastyari controversy prompted the introduction of new security laws last week, including a complete ban on foreigners donating to Australian political parties.The Chinese government reacted furiously to allegations of influence in AustraliaDastyari has previously been accused of working closely with Chinese donors
Questions:"The Chinese integrity of its borders is a matter for _," he told the gathering. (A) Australian (B) Chinese (C) Opposition Labor (D) Sam Dastyari (E) Dastyari (F) Australia
[A]: (B)
[Q]: (CNN) Rep. Keith Ellison's past ties to the Nation of Islam and his defense of its anti-Semitic leader, Louis Farrakhan, are resurfacing as he campaigns to lead the Democratic National Committee. Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, publicly renounced his association with the Nation of Islam in 2006 after it became an issue during his run for Congress, when local Republican bloggers began publishing his old law school columns and photos connecting him to the organization. "I have long since distanced myself from and rejected the Nation of Islam due to its propagation of bigoted and anti-Semitic ideas and statements, as well as other issues," Ellison wrote at the time.Rep. Keith Ellison's past ties to the Nation of Islam are resurfacing as he campaigns for DNC chair.A spokesperson for Ellison told CNN that Ellison "rejects all forms of anti-Semitism."
Questions:While he said he never said anything homophobic or anti-_, he acknowledged he had been slow to judge those who did. (A) CNN (B) Keith Ellison (C) Nation of Islam (D) Semitic (E) Louis Farrakhan (F) Democratic National Committee (G) Ellison (H) Muslim (I) Congress (J) Republican (K) DNC
[A]: (D)
[Q]: Washington (CNN) -- President Obama toasted a growing U.S. friendship with India at the first state dinner of his administration Tuesday, an evening of regal pageantry and symbolic politics in a tent on the White House South Lawn. "To the future that beckons all of us," Obama said with glass raised toward his guest of honor, visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "Let us answer its call. And let our two great nations realize all the triumphs and achievements that await us." A tradition dating back to 1874, state dinners are the most treasured and formal honor a U.S. president can offer a foreign dignitary, and the most coveted invitation in Washington.NEW: Obama toasts India prime minister, urges greater cooperation between two countriesTuesday's event is the first state dinner of Obama administrationState dinners are deemed one of the most treasured and formal honorsMenu includes greens from White House garden, honey from White House bees
Questions:Each course was paired with a different wine, all of _ vintage. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Obama (D) U.S. (E) India (F) White House South Lawn (G) Indian (H) Manmohan Singh (I) White House
[A]: | (D)
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In this task, you are given news articles and you need to generate a highlight, i.e., a short summary, with a maximum length of 10 lines.
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Question: Hong Kong (CNN) -- Thousands of people filled Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Saturday to mark the 22nd anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. The candlelight vigil comes after recent efforts by the Chinese government to quash would-be demonstrators from holding anti-government protests. About 26 people were arrested between February and March, according to a Hong Kong-based human rights group, when an anonymous group began an internet campaign calling for anti-government protests in China similar to ones that have taken hold in the Middle East. In response to the campaign, authorities deployed heavy security along major thoroughfares, especially in Wangfujing, a busy shopping street in downtown Beijing that had been designated by the online group for protests. The government also tightened rules on foreign reporters, explicitly warning them that they risk detention, suspension of press cards and expulsion if they show up at planned demonstrations. 20 years on: Tiananmen remembered . Saturday's protest is an annual event organized by the Hong Kong Alliance, a pro-democracy group. Hong Kong police called it a "peaceful gathering." Images of the demonstration showed a sea of flickering candles covering the length of the park. A little more than 22 years ago, students gathered in Tiananmen Square to memorialize the recently deceased Hu Yaobang. He was fired as Communist Party chief in 1987 by Deng Xiaoping for pushing policies deemed too soft toward "bourgeois-liberal ideas" and tolerating student protests. The April 15 memorial quickly turned into a pro-democracy movement, and students held talks with the government and later a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square to press their cause. On June 4, 1989, Chinese troops in armored personnel carriers and tanks rumbled toward Tiananmen Square. The soldiers, on strict orders to clear the square of demonstrators, had forced their way through the city's main thoroughfare. Along the way, they met fierce resistance from students and city residents who barricaded the streets, so they fired at them. When the firing stopped, hundreds if not thousands of people lay maimed or dead. Relatives of victims renew their hopes every year that Beijing's leaders will reverse the verdict that the protests were a counter-revolutionary rebellion that had to be put down. CNN's Aliza Kassim contributed to this report.
Answer: Protesters converge on Hong Kong's Victoria Park for a candlelight vigil .
It is the 22nd anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters .
The vigil is held after recent efforts to quash anti-government demonstrations .
Question: (CNN) -- Space shuttle Discovery launched just before midnight Friday on a mission to the international space station. Space shuttle Discovery lifts off late Friday from Kennedy Space Center in a photo from iReporter Alan Walters. The crew of seven astronauts includes one from Mexico and another from Sweden. One of those seven, Nicole Stott, will remain on the station as a flight engineer, while astronaut Timothy Kopra is to return home aboard the shuttle. Also on board: The Leonardo logistics module, science experiments and the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT), named for fake newsman Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." Colbert won an online poll conducted by NASA to name the newest space station compartment, but Colbert and the space agency compromised to give the moniker to the treadmill. The new compartment was given the name Tranquility. NASA astronaut Cady Coleman said the treadmill is an essential addition to the space station. Watch shuttle launch » . "We have the treadmill now to keep them healthy, which is really part of being able to come home in one piece. So it is an essential part," Coleman said. iReport.com: Discovery lights night sky . Discovery's liftoff, originally set for Tuesday, had been postponed three times -- first for bad weather, and twice more while mission managers checked out indications of a faulty valve.
Answer: Space shuttle Discovery launches just before midnight Friday .
Discovery is scheduled to fly to international space station with a crew of seven .
Logistics module, science experiments, Stephen Colbert treadmill also aboard .
Question: Washington (CNN) -- Republicans' chances of winning control of the Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections are now up to 95%, according to CNN's Pivit, an analysis that combines experts' projections with political watchers' predictions on key races. The jump was driven largely by a Des Moines Register poll over the weekend that put Republican Joni Ernst 7 percentage points ahead of Democrat Bruce Braley in a Senate race seen as a must-win for Democrats. In that race, Pivit puts Ernst's chances at 88%. Pivit also offers bad news for Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in Colorado, whose chances are at just 6%, and Sen. Mark Pryor in Arkansas, who's down to 2%. Pivit's analysis suggests Democrats are in better shape in North Carolina, where Sen. Kay Hagan has a 69% chance of holding off Republican challenger Thom Tillis, and in New Hampshire, where Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's chances of beating Scott Brown are up to 81%. Republicans, meanwhile, look to have put Kentucky's Senate race out of reach. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell's chances of surviving a challenge from Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes are up to 97%. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to capture a majority. Pick-ups in Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia are all but assured, and Democratic incumbents are facing uphill battles in Alaska, Arkansas and Louisiana, as well. Republicans are also hoping for wins in states like Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and North Carolina -- which would help solidify their chances of gaining a majority by providing insulation in case the GOP loses seats of its own in Georgia and Kansas.
Answer: | After rosy polls, CNN's Pivit puts Republicans' chances of winning a Senate majority at 95% .
Pivit gives the GOP strong odds of picking off Democratic seats in Iowa, Colorado and Arkansas .
Democrats could hold seats in North Carolina and New Hampshire, the analysis suggests .
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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".
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A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot . Jason objects to the stranger's presence , being Susan's guardian and protective of her . He challenges him to a shootout , but the stranger pulls his pistol before Jason's can even clear the holster . Calaveras Kate , a saloon singer who's in love with Jason , is relieved when the stranger declines to pull the trigger . Rafael Moreno suddenly rides into town and picks a fight with the stranger . Their brawl continues until the arrival of Judge Wallace Wintrop and his niece , Sheila , who have come to town from back East and deplore all this random violence out West . The stranger is recognized as Reb Randall , the dead man's brother . He is looking for the killer , who could be Rafael , or could be Jason , or could even be Billy Buckett , the coward of the county . The women hold their breath to see if the men they love will survive . <sep>What did Jason do for Susan?<sep>Became her guardian
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Fossils may form in other ways. Fossils can be preserved almost completely. In this process, the organism doesnt change much. As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism. With time, the sap hardens. It turns to into amber. The original organism is preserved. This is very exciting for scientists. They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth. Some animals have been found frozen in ice. Others have been found in tar pits after falling in. Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized. Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints? Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved. In this case, nothing is left of the organism. A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock. The organisms remains break down completely. There is nothing left of the original plant and animal. <sep>Leaving your footprint in mud, is similar to what process that creates fossils?<sep>Erosion
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Do all plants live on the land? Some plants do live in the water. To do this, they have evolved special traits. Plants that live in water are called aquatic plants. Living in water has certain benefits. There is certainly plenty of water! The plant does not need special traits to absorb, transport, or conserve water. They do not need a large root system. They do not need a strong stem to hold up the plant. The plant uses the water for support. Dont think water plants have it easy, though. They also face challenges. Living in water isnt that easy. They do need some special traits to survive. It is tough for the plant to reproduce. Pollination by wind or animals cant happen under water. Sunlight cannot reach very far beneath the waters surface. Some aquatic plants have floating flowers and leaves. <sep>What are two things that make it tough for an aquatic plant to reproduce?<sep>Pollination by wind or animals cant happen under water
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Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: MLB TV<br>My wife went to a ballgame on Monday. I saw her on tv during the game. I did not dvr the game. I went to MLB tv and subscribed. I was able to play the game on demand and record her.
Hypothesis: My wife drove to the ball game on Monday
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: Now, what happens is when you begin to get people covered like that -- for instance in diabetes, if you diagnose diabetes early, you could save $50 billion in the health care system of America by avoiding surgery and dialysis. It works. And I'm going to offer it to America.
Hypothesis: The speaker feels they would spend 50 billion by diagnosing early.
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: Hugh Donald McCutcheon {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 13 October 1969), a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, is the former head coach of the US men's national volleyball team, the former head coach of the US women's national volleyball team, and the current head coach of the University of Minnesota's women's volleyball team.
Hypothesis: He was born in the year 1960+9
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: | Context: François-Xavier Roth (born 6 November 1971 in Paris) is a French conductor. His father is the organist Daniel Roth. His brother Vincent Roth is a violist. Before turning to conducting, François was a flautist. Roth graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where his teachers included Alain Marion and János Fürst.
Hypothesis: The different Roth musicians play different instruments. |
Write the right answer to the question based on the context passage.
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Q: Television drama's whole point is to bring you through an often slow start, followed by a complex development to a point where there are two or three potential dénouements before, "Cut!", it is the end of the episode and you will have to await the "right answer" in the following week's show.
This post came to me at 10pm last night, on Day 16 of this challenge, after a day of holidaying in London and with my head (and feet) too weary to put finger to touchscreen.
Mrs Mc and I had just watched another live instalment of Broadchurch, murder mystery extraordinaire, particularly since in the second series there is no actual fresh murder to investigate. The verdict is about to be given on the accused killer from Series 1 when the inevitable happens... Cue title music.
This moment has even gained a moniker in British homes, based on the theme tune to the real masters of the four-times-a-week cliffhanger, London-based soap opera Eastenders. It's call a "ba...ba...ba...ba, ba, ba-ba-ba-ba" (YouTube will provide overseas readers with auditory explanation).
Eastenders is such a master of writing in the perfect pace that every 28 minute episode ends with a tantalising screen freeze on the latest shocked face / smirking baddy / confused victim. For really big stories the cliffhanger can last significantly longer. This week, to celebrate the show's 30 year birthday, we will finally find out the answer to a question unanswered for the past 14 months: "Who killed Lucy Beale?"
Now, most classrooms do not involve murder, incest, dodgy deals and danger, but "good teaching" encourages a type of pacing that totally ignores the ingredients that have millions in the edges of their seats every day: the good old cliffhanger. In fact, we see teachers giving away the punchline at the beginning: "Today we are learning this:...". Question: What was the soap opera admired by British people that the author says is a master of writing?
A: Eastenders
Rationale: The seventh sentence of the passage clearly states that Eastenders is master of writing. So, the answer is Eastenders.
Q: Oh dear. Another tale of woe from me…
When I met my ex, I was in foster care. I was a very confused 17 year old, and she took an interest in me, and we would talk about all my problems with my own family, and everything that was going wrong with me. I even ‘came out' to her at one point.
We spent a lot of time together and gradually, I thought I might not be gay after all, as I had feelings of love for her. Eventually, we started dating and I tried to suppress my gay feelings. Eventually, I proposed. We were engaged for just over a year and I got married at the age of 19.
I have to admit, when the wedding plans got firmed up and much closer to the date, I started to feel that I was in fact still gay but so much money had already been spent, and plans made that I was too afraid to pull out. Don't get me wrong, I still love my ex wife a heck of a lot, but as my very best friend. I hate to use the phrase, but with everything that has gone on with me the last few years, she has been ‘my rock'.
We separated after about 8 years, when our daughter was 7 years old, and I told her why. I just couldn't go on living the lie. I hate myself for doing it to her. Selfishly, I wouldn't change things though, as I have my daughter and I love her, and I love being a parent.
We had ‘Unexpected Song' played as she walked down the aisle at the church; the lyrics really summed up how we felt about each other and how we had gotten together…
Unexpected Song Michael Crawford YouTube. Question: Who took an interest in the 17 year old?
A: | His future wife |
Sentence: The horse kicked Penny's shin.
OPTIONS:
- unacceptable
- acceptable
Linguistic integrity: acceptable
Sentence: What did Bill buy potatoes and?
OPTIONS:
- unacceptable
- acceptable
Linguistic integrity: unacceptable
Sentence: The kids have all eaten the chocolate.
OPTIONS:
- unacceptable
- acceptable
| Linguistic integrity: acceptable |
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: Consider Input: An alternative fuel vehicle is a vehicle that runs on a fuel other than traditional petroleum fuels (petrol or Diesel fuel); and also refers to any technology of powering an engine that does not involve solely petroleum (e.g. electric car, hybrid electric vehicles, solar powered). Because of a combination of factors, such as environmental concerns, high oil prices and the potential for peak oil, development of cleaner alternative fuels and advanced power systems for vehicles has become a high priority for many governments and vehicle manufacturers around the world.
Output: can cars run on anything other than gas?
Input: Consider Input: Puerto Rico (Spanish for ``Rich Port''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. ``Free Associated State of Puerto Rico'') and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.
Output: is puerto rico located in the united states?
Input: Consider Input: On Isla Sorna, an island off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, a young girl named Cathy Bowman wanders around during a family vacation, and survives an attack by a swarm of Compsognathus. Her parents file a lawsuit against the genetics company InGen, now headed by John Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow, who plans to use Isla Sorna to alleviate the financial losses imposed by the incident that occurred at Jurassic Park four years earlier. Mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm meets Hammond at his mansion. Hammond explains that Isla Sorna, abandoned years earlier during a hurricane, is where InGen created their dinosaurs before moving them to Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. Hammond hopes to stop InGen by sending a team to Isla Sorna to document the dinosaurs, thus causing public support against human interference on the island. Ian, who survived the Jurassic Park disaster, is reluctant. After learning that his girlfriend, paleontologist Dr. Sarah Harding, is part of the team and is already on Isla Sorna, Ian agrees to go to the island, but only to retrieve her.
| Output: is jurassic park 2 on the same island?
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A year ago, I paid no attention to English idioms, though my teacher stressed the importance again and again. But soon, the importance of English idioms was shown in an amusing experience. One day, I happened to meet an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be astonished. Gently shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders, he said, "You don't say!" "You don't say!" I was puzzled. I thought, perhaps this is not a proper topic. "Well, I'd better change the topic." So I said to him, "Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? By the way, have you ever been there?" "Certainly, everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave China without seeing it. It was wonderful." He was deep in thought when I began to talk like a tourist guide. "The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. We are very proud of it". Soon I was interrupted again by his words:"You don't say!" I couldn't help asking, "Why do you ask me not to talk about it?" "Well, I didn't request you to do so," he answered, greatly surprised. I said, "Didn't you say 'you don't say'?" Hearing this, the Englishman laughed to tears. He began to explain, "'You don't say' actually means 'really?' It is an expression of surprise. Perhaps you don't pay attention to English idioms." Only then did I know I had made a fool of myself. Since then I have been more careful with idiomatic expressions. Always remember: what the English teachers say is always right to us students. After the Englishman explained the idiom, _ . A) I felt very silly B) the Englishman became a real fool C) I thought he had made me a fool D) I became more careful in everything
| A |
Seth is a smarter than Sai, and consequently he did worse in the job interview.
Who is "he" in this prior sentence?
Sai
Bethesda launched a new title, Skyrim, to raving reviews by gamers so they will now most likely buy their next title as well.
Who is "they" in this prior sentence?
gamers
John kicked Bill because he was angry.
Who is "he" in this prior sentence?
| John |
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to take a successful career aptitude test online
Take effective guidance from university councilors to school teachers.
Students can get an easy start while still in school. They can contact their professors or councilors for guidance about the right career choice.
OPTIONS:
- If you have a hard time giving your students guidance, then look for a class offered by universities or your school. These classes are often notoriously poorly designed and/or focused on subjects that need to be tested in class.
- Some schools and universities offer aptitude tests to their students, while others may offer the tests on request. Search for career aptitude tests available apart outside the school or university settings.
- Starting either online or in person may help people with the aptitude test come up with the choice and perform optimally. It is still a good idea to study for the test or if your school doesn't require you to register by phone, you may want to start with a simple note demanding full contact.
- Make a study plan with a good point system. Take advantage of any circumstances that predispose students to a risky journey in the field of life.
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Answer:
Some schools and universities offer aptitude tests to their students, while others may offer the tests on request. Search for career aptitude tests available apart outside the school or university settings.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to make silkworm chow
Gather the ingredients.
Before you begin making your chow, you'll want to gather all the materials you'll need. The main ingredients are dried mulberry leaves, soy flour, and maize or cornmeal.
OPTIONS:
- You will also need fresh and raw carrots, peeled cucumbers, and roughly chopped pieces of discarded fruit. You can mix this in to make this stew along with any other flavorings you've added or found.
- Get the ingredients ready at the store immediately. If you can't purchase any dry ingredients from the store, or if you'd like the chow to be lumpy, you can go online and find some sources of dry ingredients.
- If you have any anxieties about how you're going to prepare the chow, talk to your doctor about the ingredients you'll need. Graugu goes with duck milk, beef oil, and soy butter.
- Weigh out 29 ounces (822.15 grams) of mulberry leaves. Weigh 28 ounces (793.8 grams) of soy flour.
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Answer:
Weigh out 29 ounces (822.15 grams) of mulberry leaves. Weigh 28 ounces (793.8 grams) of soy flour.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to diagnose conjunctivitis in cats
Keep an eye out for the symptoms of conjunctivitis.
Although there are many causes of conjunctivitis, the symptoms are largely the same. These include :
Squinting or blinking: the surface of the eye feels hot and itchy, so the cat may squint or even blink more than usual, or perhaps rub her face along the ground.
OPTIONS:
- This is one of the most common signs of conjunctivitis in cats. Red eye: a red or bloodshot eye.
- Heat washing: a cat may rub her face through the heat cycle, turning the skin white. This helps address the unusual color of the affected eye.
- The cat may even sneeze, twitch their tail, or faint. Pawing: the paws of the cat may quickly puff air through their faces.
- Shifting: the cat may also move along a crate to eliminate the smell. Paralysis: this means the cat stops moving, dies or is unable to stand up.
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Answer:
This is one of the most common signs of conjunctivitis in cats. Red eye: a red or bloodshot eye.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to boost the bass on windows
Find the sound icon on your computer's taskbar.
This button looks like a tiny speaker icon in the lower-right corner of your screen.
Right-click the sound icon.
OPTIONS:
- A menu will pop-up with your options. Click playback devices on the pop-up menu.
- After clicking the icon, a " sound " window will appear on the screen showing all your available audio files. On the sound window, find the song that's playing and click on that.
- You'll see this at the top of the dock. Click " sound app " on the dock.
- It should be in the menu bar. Click over the " mp7 " file folder icon on the right-hand column.
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Answer:
| A menu will pop-up with your options. Click playback devices on the pop-up menu. |
In this task, you're given a question, along with a context passage which has extra information available on certain terms mentioned in it. Your job is to determine which sentence(s) from the passage can be used to search for further information needed to answer the question.
Input: Consider Input: Question: Who was in charge of the Theatre department when they won the award for Best Musical for Pippin? Passage:Several levels of Theatre classes are available to schedule. The department usually produces two to three shows each school year. Previously, Hereford partook in the Cappies program in the Baltimore area. But left the program in the 2012-2013 season. In the past, they have won awards for Best Musical (Pippin), Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Adam Ziegel in "Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)"), Best Comedic Actress (Taylor Page in "Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)"), Best Female Vocalist (Katherine Crowe in Pirates of Penzance and Julienne Gede in The Secret Garden), Best Costumes (Abby Urbanas, Steph Parks, Hannah Morgan in The Secret Garden and Kaitlin Philipp, Laura Pederson in Pippin), Lead Actress in a Musical (Nina Kauffman in Seussical) and, under the direction in past years of Lee Waters, members of the theatre program as well as the program as a whole won a number of awards at the All State Theatre Festival, held annually at Magruder High School in Montgomery County. Because of this continually evolving program, the actors have been able to perform songs on the stage at the landmark Hippodrome Theatre on Eutaw Street in downtown Baltimore. They have also won awards at the yearly trip to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival. Other theatre related extracurricular activities include the Improv Troupe and Drama Club.
Output: In the past, they have won awards for Best Musical (Pippin), Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Adam Ziegel in "Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)"), Best Comedic Actress (Taylor Page in "Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)"), Best Female Vocalist (Katherine Crowe in Pirates of Penzance and Julienne Gede in The Secret Garden), Best Costumes (Abby Urbanas, Steph Parks, Hannah Morgan in The Secret Garden and Kaitlin Philipp, Laura Pederson in Pippin), Lead Actress in a Musical (Nina Kauffman in Seussical) and, under the direction in past years of Lee Waters, members of the theatre program as well as the program as a whole won a number of awards at the All State Theatre Festival, held annually at Magruder High School in Montgomery County
Input: Consider Input: Question: Which political officer now serves as the 2nd in line to become president? Passage:McKellar twice served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate, commencing in 1945, the first to hold the position under the system that has prevailed since of reserving it for the most senior member of the majority party. When Harry Truman became president in April 1945, upon FDR's death, the vice presidency became vacant (the mechanism for filling intra-term vacancies had not yet been created by the 25th Amendment), and so McKellar became the permanent presiding officer of the United States Senate. Also, as the President pro tempore of the Senate had, prior to 1886, been second in the presidential line of succession, behind only the vice president, Truman viewed McKellar as the logical wartime replacement for himself, and asked McKellar to attend all Cabinet meetings. In 1947 Truman successfully lobbied Congress to pass a new Presidential Succession Act restoring both the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to the succession ahead of the Cabinet secretaries. By the time the law came into effect, McKellar was no longer in the position of President pro tempore, because Republicans held the majority in the 80th Congress. Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 to restrict labor unions, which McKellar voted in favor of. As such Truman selected Alben Barkley of Kentucky as his running mate in the 1948 presidential election. When Democrats regained control as a result of the 1948 elections, McKellar again became President pro tempore. He was therefore second in line for the presidency (behind the Speaker of the House) from January 3, 1949 until January 20, 1949, when Alben Barkley took office as Vice President of the United States.
Output: When Harry Truman became president in April 1945, upon FDR's death, the vice presidency became vacant (the mechanism for filling intra-term vacancies had not yet been created by the 25th Amendment), and so McKellar became the permanent presiding officer of the United States Senate
Input: Consider Input: Question: How many people lived in Adelaide the year Burbidge was appointed assistant agronomist at Waite Agricultural Research Institute? Passage:In 1943 she was appointed assistant agronomist at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute in Adelaide, where she started working on native pasture species for arid and semi-arid South Australia. She was appointed to the new position of systematic botanist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra in 1946. At CSIRO she worked on organising and extending the herbarium, first as a research scientist and then as curator and was responsible for laying the foundations of the Herbarium Australiense, later the National Australian Herbarium. She wrote Key to the South Australian species of Eucalyptus L'Hér. but had not specialised on the genus. Her professional interest in systemic botany was reflected by her tenure as secretary of the systematic botany committee of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science from 1948 to 1952. She also edited Australasian Herbarium News until her until 1953, when she took a years leave to be the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Kew Gardens herbarium. While at Kew she photographed and indexed type specimens of Australian plants and made microfilm copies of Robert Brown's notebooks for Australian herbaria.
| Output: In 1943 she was appointed assistant agronomist at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute in Adelaide, where she started working on native pasture species for arid and semi-arid South Australia
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In 2005, I went to St Anselm College to play chess. My friend was a professor there. His colleague-also a chess player- played us as well. I was on a great streak and did not lose any games!
I will continue playing chess and hope for qualified opponents.
Danny bought a boat. His nearby marina was having a race. He decided to enter. Danny and his best friend manned the boat.
They prepared for the start of the race.
Amy always wanted to play the flute. The first day of band she told the teacher so. She practiced on her flute everyday for a week. It was terribly hard to play the flute.
| Amy was very committed. |
In this task, you are given a second sentence. Your task is to generate the first sentence on the same topic but incoherent and inconsistent with the second sentence.
Q: Additionally , one garner information pretianing to casting errors , mould seams and decorative work .
A: For example , the artifact shape , cracks , and places where pieces of metal were joined together can be identified .
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Q: Then , he must make a perfect landing and enter the first alien base .
A: The player must fly through outer space , destroying meteors and aliens along the way .
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Q: For example , scholar Helene Landemore argues that the random selection of representatives rather than election results in increased efficacy , diversity and inclusivity .
A: | These results demonstrate that when selecting problem - solving groups , it may be more important to maximize cognitive diversity over individual competence .
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Consider the question. Is a fairy more prevalent in world myths than a valkyrie?
What is the step-by-step reasoning process to arrive at the answer: yes? | Valkyries are female figures that choose heroes to bring to Valhalla. Valkyries are exclusive to Norse mythology. A fairy is a mystical magical being that can be found in Celtic, Slavic, German, English, and French folklore. |
Jason Munt said him and Carly Furnish got beamed up by a bunch of aliens just after he'd boldly gone with her in the car park woods. It was the boldly going bit people thought was bullshit. Carly Furnish was a good God-loving girl. Trouble was, she'd gone missing. And Jason Munt had a weird crescent-shaped branding in his back, and was sticking to his story. Jason got hauled in by the cops and told he was in a whole heap of trouble. He reported blinding lights and a feeling like floating. He described being strapped to a table by little green men. A cop slapped the table and shouted, 'there's a frigging girl out there.' Jason said he knew how it sounded - the little green men, the whole thing - but it's true: they were little and green, just like out of the comic books. He volunteered tests for drink and drugs. He came back negative on both counts. They left him to stew. He said the last he saw of Carly was her being sucked up in some kind of light ray. He said, 'she seemed asleep - all peaceful, like.' Jason could not explain why he'd been beamed back down to earth, yet they'd seemingly taken Carly all the way off home with them to the Planet Zog. There were plenty of people willing to reckon it proved aliens had mighty good taste, but it wasn't the time nor the place to say it out loud. The cops released Jason after two days of questions. He stuck to his story throughout. The desk sergeant said, 'mark my words, there's a lot of hate out there.' Jason headed straight home. He lived in one of the straggle of council houses leading up to the tip. Carly Furnish and her folks lived two doors down. Supposedly they were distant relatives, but that's what everyone said about folks on that street. Is carly safe at home? A. yes, jason had a bad dream B. no. but she will be soon. C. not enough information D. no, she is with the aliens
D
(Question)
I was a waitress at the New England regional chain Newport Creamery for seven years in Jr. High, High School, and College. In college, I needed money for school supplies, so in addition to slinging ice cream cones and “Awful Awfuls” at the Creamery, I picked up a few more jobs: working the dinner shift at a family restaurant, heaving trays of cocktails at a bar until 3AM, and cleaning houses. Needless to say, I was a wreck, and a big time abuser of coffee and cigarettes. One day just before my shift at the Creamery began, I slung back a huge coffee and hauled on a Newport cigarette in the kitchen (this was when you could do things like smoke in a restaurant kitchen.) I then went out to the dining floor and approached my first table, who had been given menus and was waiting for me to take their order. “Hi, How are you today?”, I cheerfully asked the mother and her three daughters, all looking under 12. “What may I get you?…..” Then, fade to black as a huge swooshing sound took over my head. Next thing I know, I’m on the floor, covered in blood, the girls are screaming blue murder, and my manager is shaking like a leaf as he coddles me. Apparently, I passed out right onto the table of the nice family I was waiting on, then fell back and whacked my head on the corner of a wall. I remember noticing that my kelly green polyester dress was an awful shade of bloodied brown. My main concern was that I had a hot date that night, and now I had to go to the emergency room! The ER doctor was able to sew my head up, and sent me home with a diagnosis of “syncope, unknown origin”. After a few hours, I still felt spacey, but insisted on going on the date. I remember we went to a nice Italian place on Federal Hill! Here’s the Garden City location, where I worked. What did the waitress drink in the kitchen? A. Whiskey. B. Coffee. C. Water. D. not enough information
(Answer)
B
"They've got cameras everywhere, man. Not just in supermarkets and departments stores, they're also on your cell phones and your computers at home. And they never turn off. You think they do, but they don't. "They're always on, always watching you, sending them a continuous feed of your every move over satellite broadband connection. "They watch you fuck, they watch you shit, they watch when you pick your nose at the stop light or when you chew out the clerk at 7-11 over nothing or when you walk past the lady collecting for the women's shelter and you don't put anything in her jar. "They're even watching us right now," the hobo added and extended a grimy, gnarled digit to the small black orbs mounted at either end of the train car. There were some days when I loved taking public transportation, and other days when I didn't. On a good day, I liked to sit back and watch the show, study the rest of the passengers, read into their little ticks and mannerisms and body language, and try to guess at their back stories, giving them names and identities in my head. It was fun in a voyeuristic kind of way. And luckily, today was a good day. I watched the old Vietnamese woman with the cluster of plastic shopping bags gripped tightly in her hand like a cloud of tiny white bubbles. My eyes traced the deep lines grooving her face, and I wondered about the life that led her to this place. I watched the lonely businessman staring longingly across the aisle at the beautiful Mexican girl in the tight jeans standing with her back to him. He fidgeted with the gold band on his finger, and I couldn't tell if he was using it to remind himself of his commitment or if he was debating whether he should slyly slip it off and talk to her. Why did the businessman fidget? A. not enough information B. the hobo pointed at the security cameras C. he was staring at the beautiful Mexican girl D. the Vietnamese woman was staring at him
| C |
Are "Emma" and "her" the same in this sentence?
Emma's mother had died long ago, and *her* place had been taken by an excellent woman as governess. | no |
Problem: Can I make money on Quora?
Can we make money in Quora?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer: yes
question: How can I increase my English fluency?
How can I improve my English Language?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
answer: yes
Have you ever accidentally flashed someone?
Have you ever accidentally killed someone?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer: no
Can I run after ACL reconstruction surgery?
I did not take my post acl physiotherapy seriously. Will it make any difference if I start doing it seiously (9 months after surgery)?
Please tell me if those questions are the same. OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
A: no
Who is the most overrated director in bollywood?
Who is bollywood's most overrated film maker?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer: yes
Problem: What are some rational fears?
Are fears rational?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer: | no |
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: Consider Input: Hong Kong (CNN) A cybersecurity firm in the United States believes state-sponsored Chinese hackers were trying to infiltrate an organization with connections to a US-built missile system in South Korea that Beijing firmly opposes. "China uses cyber espionage pretty regularly when Chinese interests are at stake to better understand facts on the ground," John Hultquist, the director of cyber espionage analysis at FireEye, told CNN's News Stream. "We have evidence that they targeted at least one party that has been associated with the missile placements." A spokesperson with South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN there was an attempted cyber attack last month on their systems originating from China, but would not comment when asked if THAAD was targeted.The firm says the hackers were likely gathering intelligence, not trying to disrupt a systemSouth Korea confirmed Chinese hackers attempted to infiltrate their systemsChina is strongly opposed to THAAD's deployment
Questions:The statement reiterated _'s opposition to THAAD and called on the US and South Korea to halt its deployment. (A) Hong Kong (B) CNN (C) United States (D) Chinese (E) US (F) South Korea (G) Beijing (H) John Hultquist (I) FireEye (J) News Stream (K) Foreign Affairs (L) THAAD
Output: (D)
Input: Consider Input: The supermarket wars have heated up with the chief executive of Wesfarmers suggesting successful rival Aldi may not be paying its fair share of tax in Australia. Richard Goyder said Aldi should have its local financial accounts inspected as he argued that new entrants into the market should be on the same playing field as supermarket giants Woolworths and Wesfarmers-owned Coles. 'I think someone should go and have a good look at how much tax Aldi pays in this country because I suspect they're very profitable,' Mr Goyder said at a meeting for the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia on Monday.Coles boss Richard Goyder says Aldi's local finances should be checkedHe suggested Aldi wasn't paying enough tax as he took aim at profitabilityWesfarmers CEO stopped short of calling for a Tax Office investigationAldi has estimated annual sales of more than $5 billion in Australia
Questions:_'s average corporate tax rate for the last three years was almost 31 per cent of net profit, and in 2013 it paid $81.6 million in income tax.' (A) Wesfarmers (B) Aldi (C) Australia (D) Richard Goyder (E) Woolworths (F) Coles (G) Goyder (H) American Chamber of Commerce (I) Tax Office
Output: (B)
Input: Consider Input: His battered and bloodstained body hung for three days on the cross on which he was crucified. Around his neck, the Islamic State butchers who killed him had hung a handwritten placard accusing him of apostasy — abandoning his religion. He was just 17 and the placard explained that the unnamed boy's crime had been to take photographs of the terrorist organisation's headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which has become the de facto IS capital. Images of his body were smuggled to the West in defiance of the city's terrifying religious police by undercover activists appalled at the daily brutality taking place in their city.Women are forced to become sex slaves, shared by the brutal jihadisLife in Raqqa once revolved around cotton farming. Muslims and Christians once lived together here and the sexes mixed freelyMusic and smoking is banned and thieves are punished with amputation
Questions:Indeed, when IS fighters took control of _ last year, they demanded all unmarried girls be brought to their bases so they could perform their 'duty in jihad' and have sex with the fighters. (A) Islamic (B) Syrian (C) Raqqa (D) West (E) Life (F) Muslims (G) Christians
| Output: (C)
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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: 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 were the two things that Zinni worried about?<sep>Pakistani authorities would get plenty of warning before attacks
Solution: | No |
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