Task: Question Answering
Input (English): The task is set up to mimic (albeit, in an oversimplified manner) the input-output symbol alignments and local syntactic properties that models must learn in many natural language tasks, such as translation, tagging and summarization. 
 Question: Why does the proposed task a good proxy for the general-purpose sequence to sequence tasks?
Output (English): The task is set up to mimic (albeit, in an oversimplified manner) the input-output symbol alignments and local syntactic properties that models must learn in many natural language tasks, such as translation, tagging and summarization.