Teacher: In this task, based on a given sentence, we ask you to write a question that involves "transient vs. stationary" events, i.e., the understanding of whether an event will change over time (transient event) not (stationary event). For example, the sentence "he was born in the U.S." contains a stationary event since it will last forever; however, "he is hungry" contains a transient event since it will remain true for a short period of time. Don't create questions which have explicit mentions of answers in the text. Instead, it has to be implied from what is given. In other words, we want you to use "instinct" or "common sense". Note that the written questions are not required to have a single correct answer.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Sentence: Jack played basketball after school, after which he was very tired.
Solution: Was Jack still tired the next day?
Reason: this question uses the transient nature of "being tired". Therefore it's a "stationary vs transient" question.

Now, solve this instance: Sentence: He continued long into the night, until the eldritch orb had sunk into the waiting hands of the willow, raised perpetually skyward.
Student:
Had the eldritch orb sunk into the hands of the willow before it raised skyward?