Detailed Instructions: You will be given three sentences. Read them, then identify a noun phrase (person, place, or thing) or event that is shared between all three sentences. As the output, write the span of the text corresponding to that phrase in each sentence. Keep the order of the sentences, that is, your answer should look like: 1: *a phras from sentence 1e* 2: *a phras from sentence 2* 3: *a phrase from sentence 3*
Q: 1: The moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of about 3.8 centimeters ( about 1.5 inches ) every year . 2: There will come a time when the moon will appear to be too small to cover the sun . 3: The moon is slowly moving away from the Earth so there will come a time when the moon will appear to be too small to cover the sun .
A:
1: The moon 2: the moon 3: The moon