TASK DEFINITION: In this task, five ordered key facts are given. All the given facts are expressed in natural language. Your job is to generate a story 100 to 1000 words long, that includes all the facts given as input in their order of appearance while expanding upon them to produce a broader, yet coherent, narrative.
PROBLEM: Fact1: Sammy Rice is British scientist working with specialist back room team in London during Second World War, Fact2: military scientific research is being managed incompetently, Fact3: use of alcohol as analgesic has led to alcoholism, Fact4: Stuart dictated earlier in day notes, Fact5: Rice returns to London restored by success

SOLUTION: Sammy Rice David Farrar is a British scientist working with a specialist back room team in London during the Second World War. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain from his artificial foot. The painkillers he has been prescribed are ineffective, and his use of alcohol as an analgesic has led to his alcoholism. His girlfriend Susan Kathleen Byron puts up with his selfpitying, selfdestructive behavior as long as she can, but finally breaks up with him, telling him that he lacks the ambition to better himself. Rice is brought in by Captain Stuart Michael Gough to help solve the problem of small boobytrapped explosive devices mines being dropped by Nazi bombers, which have killed four people, including three children. They receive some useful information from a critically wounded young soldier Bryan Forbes in his debut. Two further mines are found at Chesil Beach: they look like common thermos flasks. Stuart is first on the scene but has difficulty getting Rice on the telephone in his flat because Rice is alone following his breakup, angry, drunk and destructive. Rice quickly sobers up, and travels to Chesil Beach only to find that Stuart tried to defuse one of the mines and has been blown up. Rice sets to work on the second mine after listening to the notes Stuart dictated to an ATS corporal Renee Asherson during his effort earlier in the day. He discovers that the mine has two booby traps, not one, and manages to defuse them both. When Rice returns to London, his selfesteem somewhat restored by his success, he is offered an officer commission as of head of the Armys new scientific research unit. He accepts. Susan returns to him and they return to his flat to find Susan has repaired everything he damaged while drunk.

PROBLEM: Fact1: paintings in ancestral gallery At come to life midnight, Fact2: Angelina is concerned about husband 's safety, Fact3: Francesca After period of departs leaving duke with dagger in back lying dead on bed time, Fact4: Mario Disguised as returns to castle gypsy, Fact5: Teglash decides to spare Mario 's life

SOLUTION: In 1861, Countess Angelina, ruler of Bergamo in southeastern Europe, marries Mario, a baron she has known since childhood. When the castle is threatened by Hungarian hussars led by Colonel Teglash on their wedding night, Mario flees. At midnight, the paintings in the ancestral gallery come to life, and their subjects ask Francesca, Angelinas greatgreatgreatgreatgrandmother who looks exactly like Countess Angelina, to save the castle just as she did in the 16th century. Through a spyglass, Francesca observes Teglash leading the advancing army and finds herself attracted to him. When he sees her portrait, Teglash is puzzled by the fact she is wearning an ermine coat but no shoes. Angelina greets Teglash, who flirts with her when he learns her bridegroom has escaped, but she makes it clear she respects her marriage vows and is concerned about her husbands safety. Angelinas servant Luigi, seeing how smitten the colonel is with his mistress, tells Teglash how three hundred years earlier, Francesca retained control of the castle when a tyrannical duke attempted to seize it. Via flashback, we see her, barefoot and in ermine, present herself to the duke and accompany him into his tent. After a period of time, Francesca departs, leaving the duke, with a dagger in his back, lying dead on his bed. Luigi tells the colonel that, according to rumor, she killed the duke because she feared she was falling in love with him. Disguised as a gypsy, Mario returns to the castle but runs off when soldiers come to investigate. When he is captured, Teglash, unaware of his identity but impressed by his musical ability, decides to spare Marios life and make him his personal gypsy. When he realizes he is Angelinas husband, he offers to free him if she dines with him that night, but she fails to rendezvous with him. Francesca visits Teglash while he is asleep, prompting a dream in which Angelina joins him for dinner and demands a kiss. While she embraces him, she removes a knife from a roast pig and throws it at the clock, effectively stopping time. The two acknowledge their love and, as the gallery portraits look on, they fly up and crash through the roof. The following morning, Teglash awakens to find the knife still in the pig and the clock ticking. Angelina arrives, and Teglash tells her he is freeing her husband and then describes his dream, touching her with his obvious deep feelings for her. When Mario arrives, she assures him she had nothing to do with the colonel. Time passes, but Teglash still mourns the loss of Angelina. One night, while he is asleep, she arrives and falls asleep in a chair near his bed. Teglash revisits his prior dream, but this time the knife falls from the clock and Angelina stabs him with it. He awakens with a start and finds Angelina, who tells him Mario has left her and proposes they wed. That night at midnight, the portraits come to life once again to celebrate their union with song and dance.

PROBLEM: Fact1: Marshalls are happy family living American Dream, Fact2: Rob is having affair with married neighbor, Fact3: Maria decided to work on marriage shortly before she was killed divorce, Fact4: police have expanded list of suspects to include Andrew Meyers Louisiana shop clerk and Arnie Eggers, Fact5: Louisiana shop clerk had contact with Rob concerning financial problems

SOLUTION:
In Toms River, New Jersey, the Marshalls — Rob Urich and Maria Kerns, and their three sons, 18yearold Roby Barry Gray, 17yearold Chris Jay Underwood and 12yearold John Johnny Galecki — are an apparently happy family living the American Dream. But in September 1984, Maria is shot and killed, and Rob claims she was murdered by a robber while he was changing a flat tire. When the police commence their investigations, however, they discover unsettling truths about the Marshalls: Rob has secretly accumulated an enormous debt and has secured a second mortgage of 100,000 in Marias name, and is having an affair with a married neighbor, Felice Richmond Robin Strasser. Maria had known of the affair, and had considered divorce but decided to work on their marriage shortly before she was killed. Felice gives the police a statement that Rob wanted to get rid of his wife to collect on her life insurance, and he immediately becomes the prime suspect. At first, Robs friends and sons support him. But they begin to notice that he does not seem to be in mourning over Marias death, and Robs best friend Sal Joe Spano is angry that he is more interested in building a future with Felice. Rob is advised by his lawyer not to contact Felice because it could influence his image; this troubles Rob, who is deeply in love with her. Meanwhile, the police have expanded their list of suspects to include Andrew Meyers Jake Dengel, a Louisiana shop clerk who had contact with Rob concerning his financial problems, and Arnie Eggers, a rumored hitman. As all evidence seems to point to Rob, Felice breaks off their relationship, which leads him to unsuccessfully attempt suicide in a motel. By this point, Chris admits for the first time that he suspects his father might in fact be guilty. Roby and John are both shocked to hear this, strongly believing in their fathers innocence. Rob admits to Sal that he hired Ferlin LHeureux William Forsythe, a private detective, on the night his wife was killed to find out how he lost all of his money. Roby has trouble coping with a recent newspaper article in which his mothers personal life has been attacked. Upset, he is almost involved in a car accident. The police find an audio tape which Rob recorded shortly before he attempted to kill himself. On tape, he speaks about LHereux, who in turn claims that Ricky Dunlap David Andrews was the man hired to murder Maria. On Christmas Eve, Rob is arrested. Roby visits him in jail and is assured by his father that he is not guilty. The trial begins at the Atlantic Courthouse in 1986. LHereux gives detailed testimony in which he claims that Rob hired him to murder Maria so that Marshall could collect on her insurance. LHereux states that he found her too beautiful to kill, and contacted Ricky Dunlap to finish the job. Under extreme pressure from the trial, Roby and John are unable to hide their emotions, and Chris turns into an angry young man wanting justice to be served. When the moment comes that Rob asks Roby to give false testimony which would provide him an alibi, it becomes clear to Roby that his father is not the person he thought him to be. Dunlap is found not guilty. The entire blame goes to Rob, disparaged by prosecuting attorney Kelly Dennis Farina as a legend in his own mind whom he considers many times worse than Dunlap, even if he was not the one who performed the actual murder. Rob is sentenced to death by lethal injection. The narration reveals that, in 1990, Rob is on death row, waiting for appeal; Roby finished college; Chris became a varsity swim coach; and John, who married at age 17, never stopped believing in his fathers innocence.