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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders[]Bernie SandersFederal government executes Brandon Bernard despite last-minute appeals Sanders, Hawley team up to demand vote on second round of stimulus checks On The Money: Millions of Americans in poverty as Black, Native American wages stagnate | Jobless claims jump to 853K | Economists warn against excluding state aid from COVID-19 relief MORE (I-Vt.) turned out en masse at ordinarily sleepy party caucuses earlier this month, electing a slate of delegates who could be poised to take over the largest Democratic Party organization outside of Washington, D.C.

As final vote totals trickled in, Sanders backers claimed to have elected more than 650 delegates out of 1,120 available seats chosen at this month’s caucuses. Those delegates will choose the next state Democratic Party chairman, along with other party officials.

Sanders supporters say they hope to change the very nature of the Democratic Party.

“One of the issues we’re looking to do is transform the party,” said Shannon Jackson, executive director of Our Revolution, the organization that grew out of the Sanders’s presidential campaign. “This is the first step in that process.”

Our Revolution ran an on-the-ground get-out-the-vote effort to make sure supporters attended caucuses in each of the state’s 80 assembly districts. The group sent out more than 100,000 emails and delivered 40,000 text messages, Jackson told The Hill. More than 800 Sanders supporters signed up to run for delegate seats.

Longtime Democratic activists, used to low-turnout caucuses in which only party regulars show up, were stunned by the long lines they faced this year. One party strategist in Sacramento said he waited 45 minutes in line before being able to vote, when he was used to walking in and out in the span of five minutes.

The surge in turnout, and Sanders backers’ success, caught the attention of elected leaders in Sacramento.

“There’s a lot of energy in the party right now. We need to move really quickly to harness this energy,” state Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D) said in an interview, marveling at the turnout in his Los Angeles-area district.

California’s legislature has been at the vanguard of some of the most liberal policy programs in the nation, on everything from climate change to immigrant rights. Sanders supporters hope to leverage their newfound power to convince Democratic majorities in the state Assembly and state Senate to embrace even more aggressive progressive positions.

“This is to basically force the issues that we vote on onto the legislators for action. So it’s a very serious sea change,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, who heads National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association, groups that backed Sanders during his 2016 presidential primary.

The first test of the new Sanders bloc of voters will come in May, when California Democrats choose a replacement for outgoing state party Chairman John Burton. The nurses union backs Kimberly Ellis, a San Francisco-area party activist who runs Emerge California, a group that trains Democratic women to run for office.

Ellis will face Eric Bauman, who heads the Los Angeles Democratic Party and who backed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton[]Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBette Middler blasts McConnell: 'How did he win with an 18% approval rating?' Hillary Clinton: Republicans that 'humor' Trump election claims 'have no spines' Trump leaves mixed legacy on veterans affairs MORE in the 2016 presidential election. Sanders’s group has not made an endorsement in the race, though Jackson said Our Revolution would consider weighing in.

California is not the only state in which Sanders backers are trying to take over Democratic parties. The group is also organizing in Florida, Iowa, Colorado and Michigan, Jackson said.

“Hopefully, within a year or two, we’ll have a majority of the states covered,” Jackson said.

The bids to seize control of state Democratic parties is reminiscent of similar moves by fans of former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who engineered takeovers of state Republican parties in Nevada and Arizona, among others, after Paul’s bid for president in 2012.

But Democrats find themselves in deeper minorities, both in Congress and in state legislative chambers across the country. The party is poised to elect a new national chair person in February.

question: Define and describe the steps in transforming the Democratic party.

answer: Supporters of Bernie Sanders want to transform the Democratic Party. They want to change the very nature of the Democratic Party by electing more than 650 delegates who would choose the next state Democratic Party chairman. They also want to pressure the state legislatures to move towards more aggressive progressive positions. They also hope to get a larger number of states to vote for the Democratic Party.

critique: The answer should mention the "first step" in the process.

critique: The answer should mention their plan to elect a new national chair person.

critique: "They also want to pressure the state legislatures to move towards more aggressive progressive positions." - this is redundant and unnecessary.

critique: The answer should mention the first test of the new Sanders bloc of voters.

critique: The answer is a bit confusing and hard to read.

critique: Does not include that Sanders supporters elected delegates from the 80 districts and won able to have their own say in, who runs for and wins, the state Democratic chairman and other party officials.

question: Summarize why Democrat caucuses have low turnout.

answer: It is not stated.

critique: It is omitted that it is due to the Democratic Party not being active enough.

critique: The answer is not explicitly stated, but it can be inferred that the caucuses have low turnout because they are not as exciting as other events.

critique: The article does state why caucuses have low turnout.

critique: It is omitted that the caucuses are low turnout because they are not exciting.

critique: The question is asking for a reason why caucuses have low turnout. The article does provide a reason.

critique: The answer is incorrect. The article states that the caucuses are usually low-turnout events.

critique: The answer is incorrect. The article states that the caucuses have low turnout because they are usually sleepy and only party regulars show up.

critique: Rendering an answer makes it possible to complete this response.


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“Where were you last night?” Max peered over my Economics textbook. He had a look of anticipation, as if he was waiting for some pain relieving gossip.

“I was home,” I responded innocently before he rolled his eyes at me. “Now, don’t bother me, I’m trying to focus.” Although normally I would use anything to distract me from school, I wasn’t about to involve Max in last night’s mess.

“Are you expecting me to believe you weren’t at Nina’s party?” He raised his eyebrows at me. I didn’t know what I was expecting. Frankly, no expectation in the world would have prepared me well enough. But I wanted to be there for Nina like she had for me. Perhaps I couldn’t fix her parent’s divorce, but I could at least attend her house party. Especially after her break up with Todd, the leather jacket douche that called her “babe” so much I would wonder if he knew her real name.

“I promise you’ll have a great time,” Nina had told me. And at first, I really did. There is something comforting about the stagnant smell of beer penetrating every fiber of clothing and hair follicle. Something nostalgic about repetitive rap songs preaching about the wonders of big asses.

Everything seemed normal at first. The music was pounding loudly and the dim lights carried shadows across the cramped living room. I could feel the air thickening.

Minutes before terror, I was standing unnoticed next to a group of girls I recognized.

“Someone told me her dad was abusive,” I heard one say with wide eyes.

“Yeah, apparently the neighbors called the cops on them,” another responded.

“Well, I wouldn’t point fingers just yet. Nina’s mom’s a bitch. Maybe she deserved it,” a brunette shrugged and took a sip of her drink right before our eyes met. Her face flared red as she realized her words had been overhead. I clenched my fists in rage.

“How about you all mind your own–”. My response was cut short by a piercing scream. I quickly stood up in alert. The room became still. The music stopped and those still standing looked at one another with puzzled looks. The source was nowhere to be seen. It came again, this time along with a cry. I recognized Nina immediately. I pushed my way across the living room and ran up the stairs before barging into Nina’s bedroom.

I noticed him first. His leather jacket shimmered in the moonlight as he stood tall and angry. A millisecond later, I spotted Nina on the floor. Hands covering her face in defense. The lack of light in the room didn’t stop the fierceness of her blood as it dripped down her temple and into her hair.

I stood still. My brain called in fear but my body made no response. Not even when Todd walked passed me, into the hallway and shut the door behind him.

Nina remained on the floor. She held herself and rocked back and forth, letting silent cries out into the thick air.

“Don’t tell anyone.” She whispered.

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“Hello?” Max snapped at me. “Are you going to tell me or not?” I stared at him blankly as the vivid flashbacks flew through my head. My heart stung in bitterness as I recognized that all I wanted to do was say it. To write it out in sharpie on all student lockers.

Nina’s bloody face burned in my head. “There’s nothing to tell.”

title: [RF] Last Night Leftovers

question: What does the passage say about Todd?

answer: Todd is Nina's ex-boyfriend. After months of immersing himself in his relationship with Nina, he left her the day before he landed her a nice, solid punch to the face.

critique: The response is inaccurate. Todd did not punch Nina.

critique: Todd is not Nina's ex-boyfriend. He is her ex-boyfriend.

critique: Heroine Nina's full name, Todd's punching reflex, or the fact that he left Nina prior to the ex would be better mentions.

text: It is not explicitly stated that Todd punches Nina in the face.

category: accuracy

question: What does the passage say about Nina's parents?

answer: Nina was having a party after her parents' divorce. Nina's father is abusive and he got in a fight with the police once.

critique: Nina's father is never mentioned as abusive.

critique: The response inaccurately mentions that Nina's father got in a fight with the police.

critique: This is not likely and should be omitted.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

question: What does the passage say about domestic abuse?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention the gossip about Nina's family.

critique: The response misses to mention that the story mentions domestic abuse.

question: What does the passage say about prom?

answer: No answer

critique: There is no mention of prom in the text.


text:
Once, we were brothers.

Once, almost seems like a whole life ago, I stood by him and we fought and we bled and we *killed* together.

We were part of 5th Company, deployed to Ukraine during the escalation of the Crimean Conflict, a war which would later take more lives than Iraq and destroy more infrastructure than the Great War. We fought together in a conflict that, one day, only we would understand. And no politician could fathom what we saw there, no civilian could've known how we bled.

We shared bullets, bottles, and blood - when we were brothers.

We were stationed with Alpha Squad. We led all the missions, he and I. I was sergeant; he was corporal. All the men in that squad were our brothers, and we were theirs. I can still remember a time when I would've taken a bat to the head for any of those guys.

Now, I stand before him, and we are no longer brothers.

Somehow, the politics ate him. Probably ate me, too, he'd say. But now I'm sitting in an airport in Crimea and he has a gun to my head. And if anyone bothered to look up they wouldn't have thought for a moment that we were brothers.

But we were. Once.

Now he's a nationalist. Defected after the war, and found Russia to be his home, his country. I stayed with the US, and all he could say to me was how blind I'd become. After all we'd been through, as brothers, he couldn't believe I'd still take their side.

But I didn't. I just want my pension. I just want to go home. So does Alpha Squad. They're sitting next to me, but their eyes are far away. I don't bother to call to them. This isn't their business.

I look up at him. The barrel is staring down my face. He's smiling.

"Once, we were brothers," he said.

"Still are," I replied, "Only we've seen what you've seen."

"No," he lowers the pistol, "No, that's not it at all. You viewed what I did, but you didn't see. None of you did. Or you'd be on my side."

"I'm on no one's side. I just want to go home," my voice wavers, "I'm tired. I miss my family."

"We're your family," he raises the pistol again, "None of those fucks at home knows what happened here."

"Maybe it's better they don't know," I turn away, toward the rest of the squad. They're all busy in their own little worlds.

The engineer specialist has a happy little grin on his face. He's remembering that time we saved those two kids after we accidentally killed their parents while we were clearing out an apartment complex. Those two kids later got blown up by a landmine. But he's not remembering that.

Our sniper and spotter are talking, hushed, about what they'll do when they get home. I heard they might get married and move to South America. They want to forget what happened here. I know they never will.

The new guy is sitting, chattering his teeth. He never got used to combat, because he deployed a week before our squad was relieved from duty - two weeks before the war ended. He still has the nighttime chills from killing. He's grasping a folder in his hand - for his psychologist, when he's back stateside.

The airport is filled with people: refugees fleeing the war zone, servicemen and women going home, and children waiting for parents. No one notices us two.

"They're right. You're just a soldier," he puts the pistol away, "You don't get the bigger picture. But that's okay. Some of you aren't meant to. I'll see you boys stateside - in one piece or in a casket."

"You're not gonna shoot me?" I ask.

"No, because we were brothers," he replied. He disappears into the crowd.

I look down at my dog tags. No one will remember what we did here. The hippies will cuss us out; the families will avoid us; the government will ignore us.

But we'll have each other. Because, once, we were brothers. And once is enough.

title: [SP] Once

question: What does the story say about brotherhood?

answer: The narrator and the man with the gun were once brothers. They fought together in the war, and they shared bullets, bottles, and blood. They killed together and understood each other's pain. The narrator believes that they were brothers because they were in the same squad and they had seen the same things. The man with the gun disagrees, saying that the narrator only saw what he did but didn't see the bigger picture. The narrator believes that the man with the gun isn't going to shoot him because they were brothers.

critique: The narrator believes that the man with the gun won't shoot him because they were brothers.

critique: The man with the gun doesn't shoot the narrator.

critique: The man with the gun doesn't shoot the narrator because they were brothers.

critique: The man with the gun doesn't say that the narrator only saw what he did but didn't see the bigger picture.

critique: This is redundant and completely unnecessary.

question: What does the story say about violence?

answer: The narrator and the other members of his squad were deployed to Ukraine during the escalation of the Crimean Conflict. They were part of a war that destroyed more infrastructure than the Great War and killed more people than Iraq. They were stationed with Alpha Squad and led all the missions. The narrator claims that he is no longer a soldier, but is rather only a soldier, because he doesn't get the bigger picture. He misses his family, and his squadmates are all busy in their own little worlds. The two of them are in an airport, and the narrator is tired of combat. The war is over, but the narrator is still a soldier. The narrator and his squadmates killed many people during the war, and the families will avoid them. The government will ignore them. The narrator and his squad will have each other because they were brothers, but no one will remember what they did.

critique: "They were part of a war that destroyed more infrastructure than the Great War and killed more people than Iraq. They were stationed with Alpha Squad and led all the missions." - doesn't really add anything to the entire answer and should be deleted.

critique: The response includes extraneous information not useful for the task.

critique: The answer is a summary of the story, not a description of the violence in the story.

critique: Everything after the first sentence is irrelevant

critique: It is not stated that the narrator is tired of combat.

question: Summarize how the story ends.

answer: The story ends with the narrator gazing down on the dog tags they once shared with their now enemy brother. They reflect on how life in the army was enough to make two brothers fight, but not enough to turn them into enemies. They conclude that even if no one remembers, they'll have each other.

critique: The narrator is not the enemy now-they are on the same side.

critique: The story does not mention the narrator's name.

critique: "The story ends with the narrator gazing down on the dog tags they once shared with their now enemy brother." - the narrator's name wasn't mentioned.

critique: The story does not end with the narrator gazing down on the dog tags.

critique: The narrator and his brother are not enemies.

critique: The story doesn't end with the narrator gazing down on the dog tags.

question: Summarize the scene where the narrator is killed.

answer: The narrator is killed by his brother in an airport. The narrator is killed by his brother in an airport. The narrator does not want to die, but his brother does not shoot him. Instead, he lowers the gun and leaves. The narrator is killed by his brother in an airport.

critique: It's omitted that the narrator and his brother are no longer brothers because of the politics.

critique: The narrator is not killed by his brother.

critique: "The narrator is killed by his brother in an airport." - the narrator isn't killed by his brother, he is spared.

critique: The narrator is not killed in the airport.


text:
Mauricio Pochettino fears that English football’s tendency towards over-analysis, and its fixation on minor issues like diving, is slowly “killing the game”. Speaking after Dele Alli was booked for simulation in the 2-2 draw against Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday - his third such offence in as many seasons - Pochettino voiced his belief that the general mood of moral panic within the game, over what he described as “minimal details”, risks stifling football’s natural expression.

Pochettino also reserved harsh judgement for the use of video technology, saying that human refereeing errors were an intrinsic part of the game. Likewise, he argued that simulation on the pitch, while an offence rightly punishable under the laws of the game, was simply a sporting tactic rather than anything more sinister, insisting: “Football is about trying to trick your opponent.”

The Tottenham manager has admitted in the past that during his playing days at Newell’s Old Boys and Estudiantes, diving to win a penalty from the referee was regarded as a skill, one even practised in training. And Pochettino’s distaste for English moralising is underpinned by the fact that it was his leg over which Michael Owen dived during the 2002 World Cup, ultimately sending England through to the knockout stages at Argentina’s expense.

Doubtless Pochettino will be accused in some quarters of giving divers a free pass. Yet equally, he deserves a good deal of credit for trying to convey a nuanced, intelligent sentiment in a language that is not his first. He agreed that Alli’s dive merited a booking, although he denied that Alli was beginning to develop a bad reputation amongst referees. But it was the froth and furore that followed which he found most baffling.

“Look, it was a yellow card,” he said. “It happens. The referee was right. During different games, a lot of situations like this happen. The problem now is that we are so sensitive about the situation, and then we are so focused on Dele Alli. It’s too much sometimes. There is such a focus on this type of situation. I think it’s a minimal issue.

“Look, there are a lot of positives from Dele. Of course, he's not perfect. Nobody is perfect. Of course, he is a clever boy. He is a little bit nasty. The problem is that, more than this type of situation, I am worried we are going to change the game that we know.”

Mauricio Pochettino has stressed that commentators shouldn't be overly fixated on Dele Alli's diving antics

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Whereupon the discussion abruptly opened out into broader themes: into the media, into English exceptionalism, into the very essence of the game. “Football is a creative sport,” he said, “in which you need the talent that grows in a very intelligent person, a very smart brain. And now we are so focused on minimal details. I am worried that in a few years, we are pushing the sport we love now - a passionate sport that people love to watch around the world - into a very rigid structure. With VAR, with focusing too much on small actions like this.

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“Football is about trying to trick your opponent - yes or no? Tactics – what does ‘tactic’ mean? When you do tactics, it is to try to trick the opponent. You play on the right, but you finish on the left. Twenty years ago, thirty years ago, we all congratulated a player when he tricks the referee like this. That is the football that I was in love with when I was a child. Yes, in Argentina, but in England too. You believe that in England you were honest and always perfect?”

Finally, Pochettino argued that referees should simply be allowed to officiate and make errors unmolested by instant judgement and granular video analysis. “I am worried that maybe we are going to kill the game,” he said. “We love this game. Referees are humans too, and sometimes they are right, sometimes they are not right. In 10 months, over the whole season, sometimes it is against you, sometimes it is for you. For me, I like this type of football.

The Tottenham boss is concerned the game is being scrutinised to the point of death

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“My worry is this: of course if you dive, and the referee saw you, you are punished. And he deserves it. But don’t go more crazy.”

After a turbulent few days, Alli will probably be grateful for a night away from the spotlight, as he is set to be rested for Tottenham’s FA Cup fourth-round replay against Newport County at Wembley on Wednesday night. Pochettino said he would make several changes, with crunch games against Arsenal and Juventus coming up in the next week. Toby Alderweireld and Danny Rose could both return from injury, while Harry Winks, Fernando Llorente, Juan Foyth and Serge Aurier are all in contention for a start.

Naturally, Tottenham will remain heavy favourites against their League Two opposition, who will be bringing almost 8,000 fans to Wembley from South Wales. With Newport receiving 45 per cent of gate receipts, plus television revenue, this season’s cup run could end up earning the club around £700,000 - a third of their annual budget.

question: Summarize what the text says about diving/dives.

answer: The text states that diving is a part of the game, and that it is a sporting tactic. Pochettino says that it is a minimal issue and that he is worried that the game is being scrutinized to the point of death. He says that referees should be allowed to officiate and make errors unmolested by instant judgement and granular video analysis.

critique: It is omitted that Pochettino is worried that the English football's tendency towards over-analysis and its fixation on minor issues like diving is slowly "killing the game".

critique: It is omitted that Pochettino believes that English football's tendency towards over-analysis, and its fixation on minor issues like diving, is slowly "killing the game".

critique: The answer omits that Pochettino is the manager of Tottenham Hotspur.

critique: The answer should mention that Pochettino is the manager of Tottenham Hotspur.

critique: The "point of death" is not in the original text and should be omitted.

critique: The answer inaccurately uses the terms journalists and media.

text: The answer implies that the text's author supports diving as a tactic, which is not true. Pochettino is the one supporting it.

question: Summarize Pochettino's concerns about the future of the game of football.

answer: Pochettino is concerned that English football's tendency towards over-analysis and fixation on minor issues like diving is slowly "killing the game". He is concerned that the general mood of moral panic within the game risks stifling football's natural expression. He is also concerned that referees are being scrutinized to the point of death.

critique: The answer should mention that Pochettino is concerned that referees are being scrutinized by video technology.

critique: Better focuses on the more central aspects of his complaint

critique: "He is also concerned that referees are being scrutinized to the point of death." - this is incorrect. He said referees should be allowed to officiate and make errors unmolested by instant judgement and granular video analysis.

critique: It's omitted that Pochettino believes that referees should be allowed to officiate and make errors unmolested by instant judgement and granular video analysis.

critique: The answer omits the effect of video technology.

critique: The answer could include more detail about his views.

question: Summarize what the text says about referees.

answer: The text says that referees are humans, and they make mistakes. The text says that referees should be allowed to officiate and make errors unmolested by instant judgement and granular video analysis. The text says that referees should simply be allowed to officiate and make errors unmolested by instant judgement and granular video analysis.

critique: The text repeats the same sentence twice.

critique: The repetition in the answer should be removed.

critique: The last two sentences repeat the same information.

critique: The repetition of the same sentence is unnecessary.

text: The answer should be clearer about whose views are expressed in it.

question: What does the text say about Mauricio Pochettino's favorite football player?

answer: No answer

critique: The question asks about Pochettino's favorite football player, not his favorite football team.


text:
[paris exercise ban]

France’s capital has banned daytime outdoor exercise while the rest of the country can continue (Picture: AFP)
All outdoor exercise between 10am and 7pm is now banned in the French capital after officials lost their patience with people ignoring social distancing rules.

Parisians were seen walking and jogging in groups in the city’s parks over the sunny weekend despite the threat of on-the-spot fines upwards of €135 (£120) for violating lockdown rules.

France has been under one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns for nearly a month, requiring everyone to have a printed form stating their reason for being outside every time they leave the home.

The rest of the country is still allowed out to exercise within half a mile of their address, shop for essentials, or see a doctor.

[French judoka (-66 kg category) Kilian Le Blouch (L) and his girlfriend French judoka Sarah Harachi train in the living room of their apartment on April 3, 2020, in Chatenay-Malabry, near Paris, on the 18th day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP) (Photo by FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images)]

A couple, both Olympic judo wrestlers, shared their home workouts in Paris (Picture: AFP)
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, said the new rules would make people exercise ‘when the streets are generally at their quietest’.

France’s death toll has passed 10,000, the fourth-highest officially-reported figure after Italy, Spain and the US.

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The government’s health minister, Olivier Véran, said on Tuesday that the country is still in a ‘worsening phase of the epidemic’.

Spain, the second-worst hit country in Europe after Italy, has had an outright ban on outdoor exercise since its lockdown was introduced.

[A woman excercises on a bench on Pont des Arts in central Paris, early on April 8, 2020, as a new regulation is put into place asking people to practice their sports before 10:00 and after 19:00, on the 23thrd day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. - The city of Paris decided to regulate the hours of outdoors sports following a sunny and warm weekend that saw many citizens flouting the social distancing requirements put into place to curb the spread of the COVID-19. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)]

The daytime ban is intended to spread people’s outdoor time more evenly throughout the day (Picture:AFP)
An exception was granted for people walking their dogs, which led to a black market of pet-owners renting their animals out to others so they could go outside.

Parisians might now take inspiration from some of the viral social media clips showing the creative ways Spaniards have tried to maintain their fitness – such as gym classes delivered by an instructor on his roof to rows of people on balconies across the street.

Many countries in Europe are now plotting a course to end their lockdowns, and some have started easing restrictions.

People in the Czech Republic have had to wear facemasks outside at all times by law, but can from today leave home without one.

Some sports facilities such as tennis courts are now allowed to reopen as long as no more than two people play in a group, and shops selling certain non-essential goods will open from Thursday.

[Fitness instructor runs class from the middle of housing complex in Spain https://www.instagram.com/ursullinetv/ Picture: ursullinetv]

A fitness instructor in Spain ran classes from a rooftop (Picture: @sanosevillabermejales)
Denmark and Austria, which were two of the first European countries to go into lockdown, will start a slow exit from next week.

Denmark will reopen nurseries and primary schools from April 15, while Austria will allow small shops, DIY stores and garden centres to open from April 14.

The German government has drawn up an action plan to phase in a step-by-step return to normality, including mandatory mask-wearing in public, limits on gatherings and the rapid tracing of infection chains, according to Reuters.

However, the plan assumes the pandemic will last through to 2021.

Disease experts in a number of countries have warned that, until a vaccine is developed, there may be no way to end the lockdown without the virus spreading again.

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question: What does the article say about the motivation behind the exercise ban?

answer: Health officials lost their patience with people ignoring social distancing rules. They jogged in groups despite the threat of on-the-spot fines for violating lockdown rules. Videos of Spaniards having gym classes has become viral, leading to people taking inspiration for creative outdoor exercise routines.

critique: The response doesn't describe the motivation for the ban, but the answer to the question is a description of the motivation for the ban.

critique: The last line should be omitted as this is unnecessary to the answer.

question: What does the article say about the response to the pandemic in nations besides France?

answer: Spain, Italy, and the US have the highest death tolls. Spain has had an outright ban on outdoor exercise since its lockdown was introduced. The Czech Republic has had to wear facemasks outside at all times by law, but can from today leave home without one. Denmark and Austria, which were two of the first European countries to go into lockdown, will start a slow exit from next week. Denmark will reopen nurseries and primary schools from April 15, while Austria will allow small shops, DIY stores and garden centres to open from April 14. The German government has drawn up an action plan to phase in a step-by-step return to normality, including mandatory mask-wearing in public, limits on gatherings and the rapid tracing of infection chains, according to Reuters. However, the plan assumes the pandemic will last through to 2021. Disease experts in a number of countries have warned that, until a vaccine is developed, there may be no way to end the lockdown without the virus spreading again.

critique: It's all irrelevant information that doesn't need to be included.

critique: The response includes extraneous information not useful for the task.

question: What does the article say about the response to the pandemic in North American countries?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the article does not mention any North American countries.

critique: The answer should mention that the article doesn't mention any North American countries.

critique: The answer could be phrased as a complete sentence.


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It was unusual for the two of them to meet under these circumstances, but they had preferred it this way. As soon as it was possible to do so, George Carville had vanished into an unobserved lift on the 50th floor of London's Shard, retreating out of the building through a discrete trade exit at the end of an underground tunnel some tens of metres away. Raising his collar, he faced the ground and walked briskly, anonymously, into the embrace of the night.

He had smoked two cigarettes and was about to leave when Nathan Cohen arrived to meet him at the centre of London Bridge. Mutely, Carville offered him his carton of cigarettes. Cohen took one, lit it and inhaled deeply before contorted his face into a scowl.

"Full strength?" He groaned, glaring at the glowing tobacco.

"You're a grown-up now," Chided Carville, with a humourless voice but an imperceptibly slight smile. "You ought to smoke like one."

"I ought not to smoke." He inhaled again before acknowledging the question that Carville had not asked. "I apologise for my lateness. But you must remember, surely? It wasn't that long ago for you. I skimmed the reports they threw at me, I shook hands with the cloying throng. I wrote the Letters of Last Resort."

"How was that?"

"The Letters? Humbling."

"Yes. They are."

Cohen blew smoke into the night, and looked silently at Carville for a time. "What did you write?"

"I can't remember specifically."

"That's not true."

"No, it isn't. But I'd rather not say. Those words have been scarred into my brain these last seven years, but that's been my burden to bear. Now you get the chance. When you're where I am, you'll know that it's best for those words to die with you."

They were silent for a few minutes more. A night bus trundled past, and the occasional morose traveller shuffled closely behind their backs. But the two of them took no notice, staring into the churning black river beneath them.

"You're not normally this melancholy. Although I suppose under the circumstances it's understandable."

"What circumstances are those?" Carville seemed genuinely curious, and Cohen suddenly felt an abiding discomfort.

"Well, you know. The results."

"Best news I've had in weeks."

"George..."

"I'm serious, Nat. I'm not trying to soothe any latent guilt you're storing up."

"I don't have any."

"You're too soppy not to. But it really is a relief. I'm looking forward to five years as a lightweight."

"Remember when we were lightweights?" Cohen was smiling now.

"Always."

"It feels like so long ago."

"It was."

"Will we ever have that again? Committee hearings on absolutely nothing, constituents storming into our offices to bitch and complain about stuff we've never heard of, the stupid late-night scheming. I miss it already." His last sentence was spoken quietly, almost involuntarily. He thought sounded pained, or awed, or sanguine. He sounded a combination of the three.

"I intend to get all that back within a few months. You'll have to wait longer, of course."

"Yeah. I'm starting to wonder if I made the right choice."

"I'm wondering the same about the electorate." Carville chuckled.

"Speaking of the electorate, I think I've stolen too many minutes of my life from their claws this morning."

"Morning? God, it's 4:15."

"I need to go, George."

Carville smiled as a jaded man would smile at a dying loved one. "I know you do. Good luck, Nat."

Cohen's eyes were ringed with circles and heavily lidded. Taking one last survey of the skyline, he replied in a forcibly deadpan monotone. "And to you, George. I'll see you soon."

Cohen walked quickly away with his head held low. Partly by necessity, partly to disguise the emotion that had overcome him. Carville stayed for a few minutes more alone. He reasoned that nobody would seek much from an outgoing Prime Minister until morning and that his aides would handle the press appropriately. Turning his buzzing phone off, he slouched over the rail of London Bridge as the first tinges of pink started to rise alongside the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. He smoked, and he thought of the words he had written seven years ago to be read deep in the bowels of the ocean.

At 4:32, he abruptly stood and walked away.

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question: What does the text say about Nathan Cohen?

answer: Nathan Cohen is the Prime Minister of England. He is meeting with George Carville, who is the former Prime Minister. Cohen is late and apologizes. He says he skimmed the reports they threw at him and wrote the Letters of Last Resort. Cohen has been Prime Minister for five years, and he's looking forward to being a lightweight. Cohen is melancholy and wonders if he made the right choice. He thinks about the committee hearings on nothing, constituents storming into their offices to bitch and complain about stuff they've never heard of, and late-night scheming.

critique: The response includes extraneous information not useful for the task.

critique: The answer should mention that Cohen is leaving.

critique: The answer is a summary of the entire story, not just of Nathan Cohen.

question: What does the text say about George Carville?

answer: George Carville is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is meeting with Nathan Cohen, another former Prime Minister, to discuss the results of a vote. Carville is a smoker, and he offers Cohen a cigarette. Carville is a jaded man who is looking forward to being a lightweight again.

critique: "He is meeting with Nathan Cohen, another former Prime Minister, to discuss the results of a vote." - this is incorrect. Cohen was a former Prime Minister, too, and it was Carville who was meeting with him.

critique: The answer should mention that Carville is resigning.

critique: The answer should mention that Carville is about to resign.

critique: None of this should be included in the response. It is information not mentioned in detail in the story, but supplied in the answer as if is related.

critique: "He is meeting with Nathan Cohen, another former Prime Minister, to discuss the results of a vote." - this is incorrect. Carville and Cohen are meeting to discuss the results of the vote.

critique: The answer should mention that Carville is retiring.

critique: Doesn't mention what Carville wrote in the Letters of Last Resort.

question: What does the text say about how to handle a political crisis?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the text does not mention how to handle a political crisis.

critique: It is omitted that the politicians knew that they have to focus on their time to forget the sad events and reflect on their good times as colleagues.

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Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn't invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, later known as 3M. The name "Scotch" itself has an origin story almost as interesting as the invention of Scotch tape.

Born Richard Gurley Drew in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1899, Drew spent a year at the University of Minnesota in the Mechanical Engineering program before dropping out. He paid for that time at school and his correspondence school course in machine design by playing banjo, and he included all of that information in his application to the open position of lab technician with 3M. He got the job and was set on the path to make history.

In the 1920s, a two-tone paint job was popular for cars and a headache for automotive painters. The two-tone look was created by painting the car one color, applying a barrier of some sort to the painted portion, and then painting the next section. In order to get around the difficulties of this type of paint job, painters and mechanics tested out different ways to achieve the look. Unfortunately, their attempts tended to be less than successful. Some automotive shops would glue newspapers over the already painted sections while others used tape to prevent paint transfer. However those techniques often left a sticky residue on the paint that was difficult to remove. Sometimes, it would even mean the painters had to do the entire paint job over again.

One of Drew's responsibilities at 3M was to deliver samples of sandpaper to local automotive shops for testing, where he often overheard workers who were painting complain about the problems with tape used for these paint jobs. The twenty-three year old then lab assistant got the idea to create a new tape that would create a seal so that the paint wouldn't get through and yet also come off clean without leaving any sticky residue that ruined the paint finish. Drew used the adhesive that 3M utilized in the construction of its sandpaper as a starting point. From there, it took him two years of experimentation with different types of adhesives that he applied to a crepe paper backing to come up with the right combination. Thus, what would be called "Scotch" Masking Tape was born in 1925.

The success of the Scotch Brand Masking Tape allowed Drew to move up the ranks at 3M. In 1929, his position as technical director at the fabrication laboratory allowed him to pursue another idea. Cellophane had recently been invented by DuPont and was being used by grocers and bakers as a neat way to package their groceries. However, there wasn't a good way to seal the cellophane with tape because the colored backing ruined the clear look. So Drew and his team of inventors worked to create a tape that used this clear cellophane as a backing.

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Unfortunately, the machinery that 3M used in order to apply the adhesive to the cellophane backing tore the material, and the glue that worked for the masking tape appeared amber on the clear cellophane. The team ultimately invented new clear adhesive and modified machinery to handle the cellophane. The new tape was called Scotch Brand Cellulose Tape, but it appeared that it might have missed its opportunity with grocers and bakers despite ringing endorsements from several test clients. You see, DuPont had introduced into the market a cellophane that could be sealed with heat. Nonetheless, despite missing their original target market and being released during the Great Depression, the Scotch Brand Cellulose Tape thrived with various home uses.

So this all brings us back to how the term "Scotch" came to be associated with 3M's Masking and Cellulose tapes. When Drew and 3M began allowing car painters to test the new Scotch Brand Masking Tape, one painter supposedly complained about the lack of adhesive on the tape. One version of the story claims that the painter asked "Why so Scotch with the adhesive?" Another version states that the painter said "Take this back to your Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it."

Whatever the case, in the 1920s, the term "Scotch" was a racial slang term that meant something or someone that was cheap or stingy. Based on the feedback, Drew applied more adhesive to the tape and ultimately branded the tape with the pejorative "stingy" name of "Scotch."

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question: How did the writer compose the structure of this informative article's narrative?

answer: The writer composed this article in a narrative style. The writer used a chronological order to tell the story of Scotch tape.

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critique: The response is missing a few details about the structure of the article.

critique: It misses to mention the third aspect in which he structures the article. He also proceeds through the story both backward and forward, introducing new details at various times.

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Stephen Thompson wants hometown showdown with Robbie Lawler after UFC Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Stephen Thompson is trying not to look past Saturday’s UFC on ESPN+ 6 headliner with Anthony Pettis, but it’s difficult to ignore what’s on the horizon.

The UFC heads to South Carolina on June 22 to stage an event in Greenville, where Thompson (14-3-1 MMA, 9-3-1 UFC) resides. Having “Wonderboy” headline the card seems like a natural fit, and he has every intention of taking that spot as long as he’s physically capable.

Thompson already has an opponent in mind, too. He’s long pursued a matchup with former UFC welterweight champ Robbie Lawler (28-13 MMA, 13-7 UFC), and he hopes that fight can finally materialize.

“Lawler is definitely the fight I’ve been wanting for a while,” Thompson told reporters, including MMA Junkie, at UFC on ESPN+ 6 media day. “I’ve been a big fan of him and he’s been such a monster in the welterweight division. I thought he looked great in his last fight with Ben (Askren). He looked really strong and just really focused. I think that year off gave him some time to heal up and get his mind right. I think that would be awesome.

“I know there’s a card happening in Greenville, S.C., my hometown, three months from now. Hopefully come out of this fight unscathed and we’ll make that fight happen.”

UFC on ESPN+ 6 takes place at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. Thompson vs. Pettis headlines the card, which streams on ESPN+.

Thompson said he was close to booking a January showdown with Lawler. However, “Ruthless” said prior to his UFC 235 bout with Ben Askren earlier this month that the matchup was never on the table. Thompson begs to differ, but all of that is in the past, and he hopes they can make it happen in the future.

“To us it was (happening),” Thompson said. “The word we were getting is it was happening. It wasn’t until the fight – I was up in New York with Chris Weidman during his fight (at UFC 230) is when I actually found out he was fighting Askren. Up until then it looked like we would fight him. I don’t know if that was UFC or his coaches, I don’t know what the whole plan was there, but for a little while there it looked like it was a for sure thing. But things happen.”

The matchup with Lawler, No. 9 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie MMA welterweight rankings, has slipped through his fingers before, and No. 5-ranked Thompson said he hopes it doesn’t happen again. With Tyron Woodley no longer champion at 170 pounds, Thompson has renewed championship aspirations and thinks beating Pettis and Lawler in back-to-back fights would give him a strong case to challenge current titleholder Kamaru Usman.

“I think a big win over Pettis is going to put me back in the limelight,” Thompson said. “It’s been almost 10 months since I fought and out of sight out of mind. People stop talking about you, forget about you and I just want to let everyone know that I’m still here. But a win over Lawler – he’s a former welterweight champion. He’s one of the best strikers in the division and has been in the game for a while.

“It may not move me up (in the rankings), but it still shows everybody I’m here if I can do what I’m going to do Saturday and fight Lawler in my hometown and prove that, ‘Stephen is still here, let’s give him that shot again.'”

For more on UFC on ESPN+ 6, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.

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question: What does the text say about why Thompson wants to fight Lawler?

answer: Thompson has been long pursuing a matchup with Lawler. He's a big fan of Lawler and thinks he's a monster in the welterweight division. Thompson thinks Lawler looked great in his last fight with Ben Askren. He thinks Lawler's year off gave him time to heal up and get his mind right. Thompson hopes they can make the fight happen in the future.

critique: The answer should mention that Thompson wants to fight Lawler to prove he's still relevant and to challenge for the title.

critique: The answer should mention that Thompson hopes to challenge Usman for the title.

critique: Omit this redundant sentence because Thompson's reasons for wanting fight Lawler have already been established.

critique: "Thompson hopes they can make the fight happen in the future." - is inaccurate. He hopes to fight Lawler in his hometown, Greenville, SC.

critique: It's omitted that Thompson thinks beating Lawler would give him a strong case to challenge current titleholder Kamaru Usman.

critique: "Thompson hopes they can make the fight happen in the future." - this is inaccurate because Thompson already has an opponent in mind for the June 22 card in Greenville, SC.

critique: The answer should mention that Thompson hopes to fight Lawler to prove he's still relevant and deserves a title shot.

critique: The answer could mention that Thompson hopes to challenge Usman for the title.

question: What does the text say about the welterweight division?

answer: No answer

critique: It is omitted that the welterweight division was overhauled when Tyron Woodley lost his title as UFC champion to Kamaru Usman, who is also a welterweight fighter. The divisional rankings were shuffled during the UFC 227 media day this past August. Robbie Lawler moved up a spot to No. 5, while Stephen Thompson is No. 6.

critique: The answer should mention that the welterweight division is the division Thompson competes in.

critique: The text does not say anything about the welterweight division.

critique: The answer should mention that Thompson wants to fight Lawler because he is a former champion and one of the best strikers in the division.

critique: The welterweight division is a relevant topic

question: What does the text say about jiu jitsu?

answer: No answer

critique: This is false there are many references to Jiu Jitsu in the article that can be adapted to answer the question.

question: What does the text say about Pettis?

answer: Pettis is Stephen Thompson's opponent at UFC on ESPN+ 6. He is ranked No. 8 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie MMA welterweight rankings.

critique: The answer should mention that Pettis is ranked No. 8.

critique: The text does not say Pettis is ranked No. 8.

critique: He is ranked No. 8, but that is not said in the text.

critique: It is inaccurate that Pettis is ranked No. 8.

critique: It is omitted that Pettis is a UFC star.

text: The answer should mention that Thompson thinks a big win over Pettis will put him back in the limelight.

category: coverage


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Women who are not entirely straight or gay tend to have slightly higher levels of psychopathic traits and a more casual attitude towards sex, according to new research published in the journal _Evolutionary Psychological Science_. The study also provides more evidence that bisexuality is a distinct sexual orientation in women.

“I was mainly interested in this topic because certain patterns seemed to be accruing in the academic literature regarding bisexual individuals, and bisexual women in particular. Bisexual women differ in some important ways––such as personality, sex drive, and relative openness to casual sex––from both their heterosexual and their lesbian counterparts,” said Scott W. Semenyna of University of Lethbridge, the corresponding author of the study.

“My specific interest in the overlap between sexual orientation, Dark Triad traits (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism), and sociosexuality sprang from two key findings. First, bisexual women report elevated sociosexuality (i.e., greater comfort with, desire for, and engagement in uncommitted sexual activity) compared to both heterosexual or lesbian women. Second, bisexual women report slightly lower levels of two personality traits––honesty/humility, and conscientiousness––than other sexual orientation groups.”

“These personality traits have both been related to higher levels of Dark Triad traits, and also greater sociosexuality,” Semenyna told PsyPost. “These past findings suggest that female sexual orientation may share some unique relationships with both personality, and sexuality related variables, and I wanted to dig deeper into those potential connections.”

The researchers found that bisexual women tended to score higher on measures of sociosexuality and psychopathy than strictly heterosexual and lesbian women.

The findings were based on two surveys of a total of 1,093 female students at a Midwestern Canadian University. The study utilized the Kinsey scale of sexual attraction, which ranges from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual. In the very middle of the scale are individuals who are mostly heterosexual, equally heterosexual and homosexual, and mostly homosexual.

“The big-picture take away from this study is that sociosexuality shares a curvilinear (inverted-U) relationship with female sexual orientation,” Semenyna explained. “Heterosexual and lesbian women don’t tend to differ from one another in their relative caution towards uncommitted sexual activity. Women towards the middle of the sexual orientation spectrum, especially those who are ‘moderately bisexual,’ are somewhat less cautious about uncommitted sexual activity.”

“Alongside these shifts in sociosexuality are shifts in some Dark Triad personality traits, particularly psychopathy,” Semenyna told PsyPost. “These shifts are subtle, only about as large as typical sex differences in the traits, but they’re interesting. (Men typically score higher in all Dark Triad traits, as well as interest in casual sex, than do women.)”

“Primarily such evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that female bisexuality and female homosexuality are the result of different developmental processes. If female bisexuality and homosexuality were simply the result of the same underlying developmental processes, one would expect that any differences between heterosexual and bisexual women in personality or interest in casual sex would be even larger when comparing heterosexual and lesbian women.”

“Instead, what we observe is that lesbian and heterosexual women don’t differ in these variables, despite drastic difference in who they are sexually attracted to,” Semenyna said. “On the other hand, bisexual women are higher in these traits than heterosexual or lesbian women, while being attracted to some degree to both males and females.”

The study does have some limitations.

“While research into female sexuality and women’s sexual orientation has grown in the last few decades, we are in desperate need of more data to bridge the substantial gaps in our understanding,” Semenyna remarked.

“The biggest caveat in the present study is that the sexual orientation differences in psychopathy have not yet been replicated. The study adds support to other findings that bisexual women are more interested in casual sex, and engage in it more often (often with men). Other aspects of the study require replication, ideally by independent researchers.”

“The other caveat is that this study was conducted on an extremely WEIRD sample (i.e., Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic). It’s unclear whether these differences apply only to university students, if similar differences may exist in the general population, or what possible cross-cultural variation exists in these patterns,” Semenyna said.

“The cross-sectional nature of the study also prevents any causal connections from being drawn. First we have to establish these potential differences as reliable, then we have to interpret why these difference may exist and what they mean. In short, this study is an extremely small thread in a large tapestry that is slowly being woven, but is far from complete.”

Semenyna also emphasized that the study should not be misinterpreted as an attack on bisexuality or bisexual women.

“I’ve seen certain criticisms online of the study that it suggests that bisexual women are ‘slutty,’ or that we are trying to paint bisexual women in a negative light. Essentially the research is being accused of being ‘biphobic,'” he explained.

“I think this is unfortunate for several reasons. The first of which is that the purpose of science is to investigate and understand, and report results regardless of how well they fit our preconceptions and preferences. Scientific investigation of sexual minorities is an important step towards greater understanding, and ultimately greater acceptance.”

“The second reason is that I don’t see anything inherently wrong with people being comfortable with and pursuing casual sexual behavior, and having the freedom to do so. The sexual orientation differences in sociosexuality, as well as psychopathy, are only about as large as the typical sex differences found in these traits, with men on average scoring slightly higher than women on average,” Semenyna said.

“To suggest that these differences in sociosexuality or psychopathy paint bisexual women in a negative light is to simultaneously smear men, who similarly score higher than heterosexual women on these traits. To view normal variation (i.e., diversity) in human personality and sexual behavior as somehow problematic is ultimately counterproductive to both scientific progress on these topics, and social acceptance.”

The study, “Not Straight and Not Straightforward: the Relationships Between Sexual Orientation, Sociosexuality, and Dark Triad Traits in Women“, Charlene F. Belu, Paul L. Vasey, and P. Lynne Honey.

question: Summarize what the article has to say about Dark Triad personality traits.

answer: The article states that Dark Triad personality traits are psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism. The article states that these personality traits are related to sociosexuality. The article states that men typically score higher in all Dark Triad traits, as well as interest in casual sex, than do women. The article states that the differences in sociosexuality and psychopathy are only about as large as typical sex differences in the traits.

critique: "The article states that these personality traits are related to sociosexuality. The article states that men typically score higher in all Dark Triad traits, as well as interest in casual sex, than do women." - these are irrelevant.

critique: The article doesn't state that the differences in sociosexuality and psychopathy are only about as large as typical sex differences in the traits.

critique: The article does not state that the differences in sociosexuality and psychopathy are only about as large as typical sex differences in the traits.

critique: It would be more accurate to say that the article says that Dark Triad personality traits are related to sociosexuality.

critique: Does not mention what the results of the study were.

text: "The article states that the differences in sociosexuality and psychopathy are only about as large as typical sex differences in the traits." The answer should clarify that these differences are in comparison between bisexual women and homosexual or lesbian women.

category: coherence

question: What does the article say about sociosexuality?

answer: Sociosexuality is a term used to describe a person's comfort with, desire for, and engagement in uncommitted sexual activity. The study found that bisexual women tend to score higher on measures of sociosexuality and psychopathy than strictly heterosexual and lesbian women.

critique: The answer should mention the relationship between sociosexuality and female sexual orientation.

critique: The answer should mention the curvilinear relationship between sociosexuality and sexual orientation.

critique: The answer should mention that the study found that bisexual women are more comfortable with casual sex.

critique: The answer should mention the curvilinear relationship between sociosexuality and female sexual orientation.

critique: The answer omits the key takeaways of the study.

critique: The answer should mention that sociosexuality shares a curvilinear relationship with female sexual orientation.

text: The answer should mention that the differences observed in bisexual women are similar to men.

question: What does the article say about how bisexual women compare to bisexual men?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer can't be found in the article.

critique: While not answered directly in the article, the study suggests that bisexual women score slightly more on measures of sociosexuality and psychopathy than men of either bisexual or heterosexual orientation.

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question: What does the passage say about Todd?

answer: Todd is Nina's ex-boyfriend. After months of immersing himself in his relationship with Nina, he left her the day before he landed her a nice, solid punch to the face.

critique: The response is inaccurate. Todd did not punch Nina.

critique: Todd is not Nina's ex-boyfriend. He is her ex-boyfriend.

critique: Heroine Nina's full name, Todd's punching reflex, or the fact that he left Nina prior to the ex would be better mentions.

text: It is indicated that Todd injured Nina but not specified that he punched her in the face.

question: What does the passage say about Nina's parents?

answer: Nina was having a party after her parents' divorce. Nina's father is abusive and he got in a fight with the police once.

critique: Nina's father is never mentioned as abusive.

critique: The response inaccurately mentions that Nina's father got in a fight with the police.

critique: This is not likely and should be omitted.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

question: What does the passage say about domestic abuse?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention the gossip about Nina's family.

critique: The response misses to mention that the story mentions domestic abuse.

text: Add that Nina is abused by her ex-boyfriend.

question: What does the passage say about prom?

answer: No answer

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_BIENERTIA CYCLOPTERA_ is a species of flowering plant that is native to the Middle East, south-eastern Europe, and central Asia. It is a succulent, smooth annual plant with long, curved, cylindrical leaves. Its flowers have both male and female reproducing parts and its fruits are small and spherical. _Bienertia cycloptera_ grows in hot, dry climates with little rainfall and tolerates soils with high salinity levels very well. Due to its specific growing conditions, _B. cycloptera_ is not a very common, nor widespread plant. Even over most of its range, it often grows sparsely in small patches of growth. One notable aspect of _Bienertia cycloptera_ is its unique C4 photosynthesis mechanism. Unlike most C4 plants, in _B. cycloptera_ the photosynthetic mechanism occurs within a single chlorenchyma cell, without Kranz anatomy.[1][2][3]

Distribution

_Bienertia cycloptera_ is located throughout the Middle East, south-eastern Europe, and central Asia. The plant can be found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The range of Bienertia cycloptera throughout the Eurasian supercontinent covers an area from 24° to 49° N latitude and from 43° to 67° E longitude. It has an estimated range of 180 sq. km. in the Yerevan floristic region of Armenia, but occupies a mere 28 sq. km. of area. It fits the Deborah Rabinowitz's definition of a rare plant, even though it has a wide geographical range but low abundance where it is present.[4]

Habitat and ecology

_Bienertia cycloptera_ grows in warm climates. It grows in regions where the hottest months have a daily temperature between 20 °C and 30 °C, and annual precipitation ranges from 400mm to 76 mm. _Bienertia cycloptera_ tolerates saline and, temporarily, moist clay soils. The soils are rich in sodium ions and sulfate ions, with salinity ranging between 21 ds/m to 90 ds/m. In most habitats, _Climacoptera turcomanica_ can be found alongside _Bienertia cycloptera_.[5][6]

_Bienertia cycloptera_ is an endangered species. Due to the historically saline soils of the Aarat Plain becoming more suitable for humans and therefore less saline, the _B. cycloptera_ have not been able to regrow. It falls under Category 1 of endangered species according to the Red Data Book of Armenia. Conservation efforts have been underway with a protected population in the Vordan Karmir Reservation. These efforts include monitoring the remaining populations and searching for new habitats.[7]

Morphology

[The cylindrical succulent-like leaves of the _B. cycloptera_ plants are shown.] _Bienertia cycloptera_ is characteristically a succulent, smooth, light green annual plant. It typically grows from 15 to 40 cm in length. Habitually, the plant exists in a shrub-like form. They do not have an extensive branching pattern. The leaves are long, cylindrical, and curved. They are directly connected to the stem. They extend outwards. Since many _B. cycloptera_ grow near each other, this pattern of leaves and the long stems lead to the shrub-like appearance of the plant.[8][9]

Flowers and fruit

[This shows the button-like fruits of _Bienertia cycloptera_] As a flower, _Bienertia cycloptera_ produces both male and female flowers on the same plant, classifying as a monoecious plant. The fruits are shaped as small bubbles with a concave head. In its natural habitat, the plant germinates in the spring and then develops into the fall where reproductive growth happens via flowers. There are not enough pictures and research done on _B. cycloptera_{{'}}s flowers and fruits that the distinction remains ambiguous.[10][11][12]

Medicinal use

In Persia, _B. cycloptera_ is widely used for use in alternative medicine, especially for properties associated with antimicrobial, antihyperglycemic, and lipo catalytic properties. However, there is little scientific research showing evidence of this. A recent article that sought to rectify this lack of knowledge by testing _B. cycloptera_ against different microbes and analyzing its lipid composition, finding a strong correlation with microbe reduction and a wide composition of lipids.[13]

Other significance

The plant _B. cycloptera_ has a unique photosynthetic arrangement. As for the cellular structure of the plant, chlorenchyma cells have rubisco in the chloroplasts of the cell separated by channels and the PEPC in other cytoplasmic channels of the cell. This allows for the unique structure of the single celled C4 plant.[14] This is a very unique structure considering that every other C4 plants have spatial separation in the form of cells. However, scientists found evidence for this arrangement by measuring the Carbon-13 isotope values and found it consistent with other C4 species.[15]

In the field of scientific research for agriculture, _B. cycloptera_ has been used as a subject for studying the potential changing of commercial crops from C3 to C4 photosynthetic plants. Studies on _B. cycloptera_ have found that C4 photosynthetic cells are remarkably similar to that of C3 photosynthetic cells, hinting that genetic manipulation may require less anatomical change than previously thought.[16]

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title: Bienertia cycloptera

question: Summarize the areas in which Bienertia Cycloptera is found.

answer: Bienertia Cycloptera is found in the Middle East, southeastern Europe, and central Asia. The plant can be found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The range of Bienertia Cycloptera throughout the Eurasian supercontinent covers an area from 24° to 49° N latitude and from 43° to 67° E longitude. It has an estimated range of 180 sq. km. in the Yerevan floristic region of Armenia, but occupies a mere 28 sq. km. of area.

critique: "The plant can be found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan." - this is redundant and can be deleted.

critique: The plant's range is not limited to the Eurasian supercontinent.

critique: The answer should include the specific locations in which the plant is found.

critique: The answer should mention that the plant is endangered.

critique: The final sentence should be removed, as it's not necessary.

critique: Yerevan is not mentioned in the passage.

text: It should be mentioned that the plant is mostly found in hot, dry climates with little rainfall.

question: Summarize the habitat and ecology of Bienertia cycloptera.

answer: Bienertia cycloptera grows in hot climates. It grows in regions where the hottest months have a daily temperature between 20°C and 30°C, and annual precipitation ranges from 400mm to 76 mm. It tolerates saline and, temporarily, moist clay soils. The soils are rich in sodium ions and sulfate ions, with salinity ranging between 21 ds/m to 90 ds/m. In most habitats, Bienertia cycloptera can be found alongside Climacoptera turcomanica.

critique: The answer should mention that the plant is endangered.

critique: "temporarily" - correct the spelling to "temporarily"

critique: The answer omits the plant's specific habitat.

critique: The answer could mention that the plant is endangered.

critique: Importance of paragraph - mention Eruasia.

question: Summarize the other uses that B. cycloptera has.

answer: The B. cycloptera is used for use in alternative medicine, especially for properties associated with antimicrobial, antihyperglycemic, and lipo catalytic properties. In Persia this is the most commonly reported use. It's also been positively used in the study of changing commercial crops.

critique: The plants have been used for alternative medicine in Persia, not the other uses.

critique: The plant has been used for agriculture research as well.

critique: The plant's use in agriculture is not mentioned in the article.

critique: The plant has not been used for this purpose in Persia.

critique: The plant is used for agricultural research as well.

critique: The second sentence is not relevant to the question.


text:
“Daisy….”a soft voice whispered in the dim light.

Daisy looked around, startled.

“Whoever you are, go away.” Daisy said trying to place the voice. It was so familiar….

“Not a chance. You’re stuck with me now and you won’t be able to ignore me anymore” he hissed.

“I h-haven’t been ignoring you. I’m just very….”

“LIAR! You know you can’t lie to me, Daisy.”

Daisy burst into tears.

“Oh shut up. You can be such a baby sometimes.”

“W-what are you going to do to me?” Daisy asked while trying to control her sobs.

“I’m not going to DO anything to you. I just want to help you fill in the gaps.”

“What gaps?”

“The ones in your memory. For example, can you remember what you had for breakfast yesterday?”

“Of course! I had…. Uh…”

He chuckled.

“Daisy, Daisy, Daisy. You had oatmeal with sliced bananas on top.”

“I knew that! Shut up!”

“Do you remember Louis?”

“You mean my husband of four years? Yeah, like I could ever forget him.”

“Then you must remember what you did to him, right?”

Daisy could hear the smirk in his voice, and scrunched her face trying to sift through her memories. She couldn’t stand this bastard knowing more than her.

“I… I haven’t done anything to him.”

“Oh really? Absolutely nothing? Hah! Clearly you need me more than you know. You can’t remember anything.”

This time he laughed out loud, not even bothering to hide his contempt.

“There’s nothing to remember. You’re just fucking with me. Shut up!”

Daisy turned away, resolved to end this conversation.

“Let’s play a little game. I’m going to describe an event, and you’re going to try to remember it.”

Daisy stayed resolutely silent.

“Do you remember yesterday morning? It was a pretty uneventful day. Louis had breakfast with you and then left for work. Do you remember that, Daisy?”

Daisy nodded slightly, still trying not to engage.

“Do you remember how you burnt his toast?”

“I’m always doing things like that. Louis didn’t mind though.”

“And the bruise on your arm?”

“This little thing?” Daisy poked at it. “I was cleaning up and I dropped a dish. I must’ve hit my arm while picking it back up.”

Even Daisy could hear the uncertainty in her voice.

“Louis was so worried about it, too. He gave me an ice pack, and told me he loved and that he was sorry. I’m so lucky to have a man like him in my life.”

Silence. Daisy ran her answer through her head over and over, trying to see if there were any gaps or mistakes.

“And the stitches two months ago?”

“Another case of my notorious clumsiness. Louis was having some fun, and threw a glass at me…. I mean to me. I didn’t catch it and somehow managed to break it on top of that. I sliced open my hand on one of the pieces.  I needed twelve stitches.”

Daisy started laughing at herself.

“Louis was so nice after that! He visited me at the hospital every day, and gave me the most beautiful flowers. He kept saying over and over that he loved me and that he was sorry. He was always so sorry for my clumsiness…”

More silence. He studied Daisy for a bit, and in a gentler tone said, “See, this game isn’t that hard. Now let’s skip to the end of yesterday.”

“Let’s see, Louis came home from work; I fixed him dinner; he ate it; we watched TV; and then went to bed…. You’re right this game is easy.”

He let out a low, cool chuckle, any tenderness gone in a flash.

“Wrong! That’s not what happened last night. You’re omitting one crucial detail. Do you want another go? Maybe use a lifeline?”

“Uh, I can’t remember anything else…”

“And that’s what I’m here for. To help you…” his voice became more and more serpentine.

“The first part of your memory is spot on: you made him dinner, and he ate, and then watched TV. The last part, however, is a lie.”

“What do you mean?”

“Louis never made it to bed. Do you wanna know why?”

“No. You’re lying! He went to bed!”

“He never went to bed because he’s dead! You killed him!”

“No! No… I would never do that! I’m a good person. Louis loved me! Why would I murder him?”

“Bull shit! You’ve been planning this ever since you became extremely ‘clumsy’. You chose a knife because it made no sound, and you could watch the life drain from his body by your hand. You knew that slitting his throat would be both painful and silent. So you took your chef’s knife and walked into the living room. You went silently behind him and started stroking his hair. He moaned softly and you quickly drew his face up towards yours as if to kiss him. But instead of a kiss you drew the knife across his throat. He bled more than you thought he would, but it was worth it to see that look of understanding cross his face. He knew he was dying and that you had killed him!”

“NO no no no no no no…”

Daisy started rocking back and forth.

“You didn’t count on me though, did you? You planned everything so carefully, and once it was over, your mind neatly erased any memory of it. Except me. I’ll always be here, Daisy. That voice inside your head, forcing you to remember what you’ve done to me!”

And he started to laugh. Slowly at first but building into something maniacal and menacing. Daisy suddenly realized why the voice was so familiar, and broke down in tears again. She retreated to the corner, grabbed her knees, and continued to rock, mumbling no under her breath over and over.

*****

Behind the one way mirror the doctor looked at the woman in the corner of the cell and said, “Where did you find her?”
“She was wandering the streets downtown. She seemed to be talking to herself so I called the cops and just wanted to make sure she got some help. I’m glad they put her here with you. She seems safer in here.”
“She seems to have suffered some sort of mental break. She has injuries consistent with long term abuse and there was some blood on the clothes she came in with. So far she’s been unresponsive and I don’t know if we’ll ever find out who she is. Thank you for your help Mr…” the doctor glances down at the police report, “Tully.”

title: [MS] Daisy Tully

question: What does the story say about the name of Daisy's doctor?

answer: No answer

critique: It is omitted that the doctor's name is not mentioned.

critique: The answer should mention that the doctor is named Tully.

question: What does the story say about Daisy's motives in killing Louis?

answer: Daisy's motives in killing Louis are unexplained, maybe because she's suffering from a mental break. She probably killed him over jealousy because in her recollection, he mopes around and tells her how much he loves her. The story says Daisy has been "planning this ever since you became extremely 'clumsy'."

critique: The answer is a bit confused. It should be rewritten.

critique: The word "body" is both forced and irrelevant.

critique: The story doesn't say anything about Daisy's motives.

critique: The story does not mention that Daisy killed Louis because he mopes around and tells her how much he loves her.

critique: The story does not say that Daisy's motives are unexplained.


text:
 the side of cyberbullies, right?

Except there’s one question that didn’t occur to a single senator. What’s cyberbullying?

This isn’t exactly a new problem following the Court of Appeals holding in People v. Marquan M. that Albany County’s cyberbullying law was unconstitutional. The issue isn’t whether bullying isn’t a problem or doesn’t do harm, but defining what it is and doing so in a way that doesn’t violate the First Amendment. As Eric Turkewitz explains, that’s hard to do.

  There is, of course, lots of conduct that we can all agree is bullying, right?  A kid gets taunted by classmates for his less-than-personal personality, and it’s a no-brainer, right?

  Well, almost right. I mean, friends do this kind of stuff to their good buddies after all.  It isn’t just for enemies.

  But still, let’s say it is an “enemy” of sorts — two kids that actually hate each other. How do they know where the line in the sand is located as to what is legitimate and what isn’t?

  So if Kid A wants to say that Kid B’s support of Trump is “idiotic” or “moronic,” or that Kid B seems to be a clueless asshat for believing what s/he believes, would that conduct, if done online, be cyber-bullying? How about if it didn’t involve politics at all, and was purely personal?

  Don’t we have a right to call each other schmucks?

This, of course, doesn’t begin to scratch the surface of the problem, neither from the perspective of what is bullying to what is free speech. It’s one of those words that people believe they know when they see, but when put to the test of defining, come up empty.

So the New York Senate came up with a solution in SB2318A:

  12-A. CYBERBULLYING.

  1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:

  A. MINOR SHALL MEAN ANY NATURAL PERSON OR INDIVIDUAL UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.

  B. PERSON SHALL MEAN ANY NATURAL PERSON OR INDIVIDUAL.

  2. ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY ENGAGES IN A REPEATED COURSE OF CYBERBULLYING OF A MINOR SHALL BE GUILTY OF AN UNCLASSIFIED MISDEMEANOR PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, OR BY A PERIOD OF IMPRISONMENT NOT TO EXCEED ONE YEAR, OR BY BOTH SUCH FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
  3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Notice anything missing there? No definition of cyberbullying. Not a good one. Not a bad one. None at all. It’s a misdemeanor to engage in a “repeated course of cyberbullying,” but what that might be is anyone’s guess.

Is the Senate trying to leave a huge, gaping hole for prosecutors to fill? Or maybe they figure that if the courts are going to be such constitutional sticklers, let judges come up with the definition? Is there any judge so ignorant of law that he wouldn’t toss any prosecution based on this law? Is there any judge willing to create a definition to fill the Senate’s gaping hole? It’s one thing to try to rationalize a statutory definition with constitutional limitations, but this one doesn’t stand a chance.

Turk makes the obvious legal observation:

  There is no point passing version 2.0 of a law that will one day be ruled unconstitutional.

Of course it will, as there is no other conceivable option but to hold this ridiculous attempt to criminalize cyberbullying unconstitutional. But there is, of course, a “point” to passing this shockingly badly written law. It enables senators to tell their constituents how much they hate cyberbullying, how much they love children, how hard they worked to craft a law to criminalize one and protect the other. And when those mean ol’ judges trash the law because of that loophole called the Constitution, it will be on their robed shoulders.

Hard as it may be to accept, law is hard, and writing law is very hard. Sometimes, it’s impossible to draft a law that criminalizes conduct that is harmful and wrong because it’s subject to constant variation based on unique circumstances, and any attempt to define it inherently implicates the right to call someone a schmuck. And like it or not, we have the right to say words about other people with whom we disagree in America.

But this law is just a cynical attempt to game the emotions of the electorate, as it has absolutely no chance of passing constitutional muster. The senators didn’t even give it a try, and as much as they may not be the sharpest knives in the legislature, even they know that you can’t criminalize cyberbullying by defining it as cyberbullying.

The one thing they do know is that the voters won’t think any harder than they worked on drafting a viable law, and will kvell over their concern for the children. And really, isn’t the what law is all about, getting re-elected?

question: Summarize the main news event.

answer: The main news event is the New York Senate passing a bill that criminalizes cyberbullying. The bill does not define cyberbullying, but it does state that it is a misdemeanor to engage in a repeated course of cyberbullying. The bill is unconstitutional and will not pass constitutional muster.

critique: The answer omits the author's point that the law is a cynical attempt to game the emotions of the electorate.

critique: The answer should mention that the bill is written badly.

critique: The answer should mention the author's opinion on the bill.

critique: It is omitted that a New York county court has ruled Albany County's cyberbullying law as unconstitutional.

critique: The answer should mention that the bill is a cynical attempt to game the emotions of the electorate.

critique: The answer should mention the author's opinion.

critique: The bill is not unconstitutional, Turkewitz says it is.

question: What does the text say about cyberbullying?

answer: No answer

critique: It provides basic information about cyberbullying by citing a specific example and addressing some of the legal issues around its definition.

question: Summarize the New York Senate's approach to lawmaking.

answer: The New York Senate passed a law that criminalizes cyberbullying. However, their law is so poorly written that it is unconstitutional. The Senate's approach to lawmaking is to pass a law that is so vague that it will be impossible to prosecute. This way, they can tell their constituents that they are trying to protect the children.

critique: The Senate's approach is not to pass a law that is so vague that it will be impossible to prosecute.

critique: The law is written to be vague so that judges can have discretion in defining the conduct.

critique: The Senate's approach is to pass a law that is so vague that it will be impossible to prosecute.

critique: The answer is written as if it's a fact that the law is vague.

critique: The approach is cynical, not futile or luckily-iffy.

question: Summarize the historical context around the news event.

answer: The article is about the New York Senate's attempt to pass a law that criminalizes cyberbullying. The author notes that the law is a cynical attempt to game the emotions of the electorate.

critique: The answer should mention the New York Court of Appeals holding that Albany County's cyberbullying law was unconstitutional.

critique: The answer should mention the constitutional issues with the law.

critique: The answer should mention the Court of Appeals holding in People v. Marquan M. that Albany County’s cyberbullying law was unconstitutional.

critique: The answer should mention the Court of Appeals holding in People v. Marquan M.

critique: The first line of the sentence where it says the article is about the New York Senate's attempt to pass a law that criminalizes cyberbullying is awkward. Make it into a full sentence.


text:
You are less than the wind. You are not the air, but those things carried on it. You are gentle words and the fragrance of honeysuckle. You are not that quiet breeze, but those light bits of hair that it ruffles at its passing and those gentle chills that it carries in the ripeness of fall. You are those things carried amongst the bitten mountains worn down by your medium over the passage of years and years and years and years. You are the stillness of the water in this quiet lake and the hymns of the procession slowly approaching the lake over those worn mountain paths. They sing and you follow.

They are a group of not more than twenty large. They are a mix of men and women where the mix tends to fare the fairer sex and those masculine do walk emasculated with trodding steps and uncertain footing. You are the dust kicked up by the feet of these hollow men, a minority amongst those surefooted ewes. You are also the delicate steps of the child, alone amongst adults. You are also the breeze amongst his light hair and the silence at his lips. You are not the shallowness of his gaze or the timidity of his posture. You do know, though, that this one has not had enough years to be weathered as his companions are, their souls as worn as the mountains they cross.

You are the bellows of the man-mountain leading them. You are the difference in the weight of his garments compared to the others. You are not the yellow dye that provides this greater weight, but the wind that gently whips it as they approach the water. You are his words and the songs he leads his congregation in. You are not his smile or its crude comparison with the vacant expressions of his masculine peers, the gentle effeminacy of the women, or the indifference of that golden child. You are his words when he says,

“This is truly a glorious day!”

You are his words when he says,

“Today we truly bask in the radiance of the Lord!”

You are the gentle decline in pitch as footsteps amongst leaves change to those in sand and gravel. You are the difference when the sound of movement changes to sounds of silence save the proselytizing of that mountain of a man. You are his lungs and those ragged chords when he speaks,

“Come my child and let you join the kingdom of the lord!”

You are not the silence in the child’s footsteps, but you are the dissonance between the child’s graceful procession into the water and the preacher’s entrance, more akin to a battleship being put to port than a man of god sloshing to a small sandbank less than fifteen feet from the water’s edge. You are the hymns sung by the procession as the man and child walk out, but you are not the grating words and eldritch vocabulary they use. You are just the words, not their purpose or their strange vocalizations.

You are his words when the priest lays his hand on the child’s head and the mid of his back and calls out,

“Do you wish to see the promise land?”

You are not the child’s response even though it is pronounced and articulated with a certainty greater than the child’s years. You don’t even wish to carry those weary words of disagreement. You are not the unfocused gaze as the priest ignores those words you never carried. You are the sounds of submersion. You are never that gasp of air upon rising from those cold depths. You are simply the solitude of this terrible scene; the quiet, the thrashing at the waters edge, and a wind that roars through the trees like a cry of injustice and pain amongst the leaves. You are less than the wind.

edit: formatting cleanup

meta-edit: apparently I use the word "amongst" too much

title: You are Less than the Wind [MF]

question: Summarize the story’s climax.

answer: The climax of the story occurs when the narrator describes the child being drowned by the priest. The narrator describes the wind as less than the wind, which seems to insinuate that the wind is powerless to save the child.

critique: The wind is powerless to save the child, but the climax is when the child accepts the preacher's invitation to join the Kingdom of the Lord.

critique: The wind is not powerless to save the child. The wind is powerless to save the child.

critique: The child was not drowned by the priest. The child was submersed in the water.

critique: The wind is not powerless to save the child.

question: What happens to the child?

answer: He dies by drowning.

critique: It's more accurate to say he is submerged.

question: What imagery is prominent in the story?

answer: The imagery is of the wind, water, and the mountains.

critique: "mountains" - add that these are worn down by time and erosion. There are also those worn down by generations of pilgrims.

critique: The answer omits the imagery of the child.

critique: There is an additional image of a child.

critique: The answer should mention the imagery of the group of people.

critique: The answer should mention that the wind carries and moves objects, as well as the water and the mountains.

question: What is the child's motivation?

answer: The child wants to join the kingdom of the Lord.

critique: The child's motivation is not explicitly stated, but it can be assumed that the child is motivated by the desire to join the kingdom of the Lord.

critique: The child's motivation is not explicitly stated.

critique: "The child wants to join the kingdom of the Lord." - There was no mention of this anywhere in the passage.

question: What does the text say about the man's wife?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the text does not mention the man's wife.