TASK DEFINITION: Write an inquisitive question about a specific text span in a given sentence such that the answer is not in the text.
PROBLEM: Sentence: In an interview aired late Monday by a new cable television outlet , Fusion , President Barack Obama declined to discuss the communications monitoring operations of the National Security Agency , including whether the NSA tapped the telephones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and 34 other world leaders .<sep>Span: declined to discuss the communications

SOLUTION: Why did he decline to discuss it?

PROBLEM: Sentence: Under mounting pressure from new revelations that the United States collected the telephone data of tens of millions of Europeans , the Obama administration on Monday said that there is a need for new constraints on U . S . intelligence - gathering operations and a top senator announced that the spying on U . S . allies would stop .<sep>Span: U . S . intelligence - gathering operations

SOLUTION: Which agency did this?

PROBLEM: Sentence: Ebola outbreaks in the past few decades have consistently “ burned out ” in relatively isolated and rural areas in Central Africa where ill patients did not come into contact with many individuals .<sep>Span: relatively

SOLUTION:
What do they mean by 'relatively'?

