In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.

Passage: In 1993 the cost was put at 8.9 billion marks -- with 5.6 billion marks of this coming from the federal state. Meanwhile, the expected returns have been revised downward.
put

Passage: Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram's widely-acclaimed pro-reform budget, unveiled in parliament on February 28, slashed taxes and promised to reduce the fiscal deficit. The personal tax rate was slashed from 40 to 30 percent, to the cheers of the rich, while corporate tax for domestic firms was reduced from 40 to 35 percent.
widely-acclaimed

Passage: Japan invested 170 million dollars in India last year, less than three percent of the amount it invested in China, according to official Japanese figures. Japan had shown initial enthusiasm when India ended five decades of rigid protectionism in 1991.

invested

