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: Steve Coogan playing himself as arrogant actor with low self-esteem and complicated love life, Fact2: actor Rob Brydon believes role to be of equal importance to Coogan 's, Fact3: Toby 's of Wadman takes place in sequence dreamed by Steve Coogan, Fact4: Yorick in is played by Stephen Fry scene, Fact5: Stephen Fry appears in film as Patrick

SOLUTION: The film depicts Steve Coogan playing himself as an arrogant actor with low selfesteem and a complicated love life. Coogan is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogans, calling himself the colead. The film incorporates several sequences from Tristram Shandy. Not all of these are part of the filmwithinthefilm. The latter are limited to the story of Tristrams conception, birth and christening; Uncle Tobys experiences at the Battle of Namur and Tristrams sudden and accidental circumcision at the age of three. Uncle Tobys wooing of Widow Wadman Gillian Anderson takes place in a sequence dreamed by Steve Coogan and after the cast and crew have viewed the completed film ending, with Walter Shandy fainting at the sight of his wife giving birth, the question How does the book end? is followed by the concluding scene of the novel, in which Yorick says It is a story about a Cock and a Bull – and the best of its kind that ever I heard! Yorick is not in the filmwithinthefilm; in this scene he is played by Stephen Fry, who appears elsewhere in the film as Patrick, a caricatured version of the actual curator at Shandy Hall. The DVD extras include a scene of Fry talking with the curator he portrays.

PROBLEM: Fact1: praying mantis trapped in ice for millions of years Below begins to stir melting polar ice caps, Fact2: military station in northern Canada monitors information gathered from Distant Early Warning Line, Fact3: time finds five-foot-long pointed object in snow, Fact4: Joe takes it to General Mark Ford at Continental Air Defense in Colorado Springs, Fact5: Ned Marge and Joe track bug 's progress with help of military and civilian observers

SOLUTION: In the South Seas, a volcano explodes, eventually causing North Pole icebergs to shift. Below the melting polar ice caps, a 200footlong praying mantis, trapped in the ice for millions of years, begins to stir. Soon after, the military personnel at Red Eagle One, a military station in northern Canada that monitors information gathered from the Distant Early Warning Line, realize that the men at one of their outposts are not responding to calls. Commanding officer Col. Joe Parkman Craig Stevens flies there to investigate, and finds the post destroyed, its men gone, and giant slashes left in the snow outside. When a radar blip is sighted, Joe sends his pilots out to investigate, but their intended target disappears. Soon an Air Force plane is attacked by the deadly mantis. He searches the wreckage, and this time, in addition to the huge slashes, finds a fivefootlong pointed object in the snow. He takes it to General Mark Ford Donald Randolph at the Continental Air Defense CONAD in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ford gathers top scientists, including Professor Anton Gunther Florenz Ames }, to examine the object, but when they cannot identify it, Gunther recommends calling in Dr. Nedrick Jackson William Hopper, a paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History. When Ned gets the call from Ford, he is helping museum magazine editor Marge Blaine Alix Talton plan her next issue, and dodges her questions as she begs him for a big scoop. Later, after examining the object, Ned recognizes it as a tornoff spur from an insects leg, and soon guesses, from evidence that the creature ate human flesh, that it must be a gigantic praying mantis. Meanwhile, in the Arctic, the people of an Eskimo village spot the mantis in the sky, and although they hurry to their boats to escape, it swoops down and kills several men. Ned is sent to Red Eagle One to investigate further, and upon leaving, discovers that Marge has managed to get permission to accompany him as his photographer. They reach the base, where all the men, including Joe, are smitten by Marge. That night, Marge and Joe join Ned in his office and discuss the creature, not realizing that it is drawing close to the office window. Marge suddenly catches sight of it and screams, and the bug attacks the building. Although the full unit opens fire on the mantis with automatic rifles and a flamethrower, it is unscathed and moves away only after planes encircle it. Hours later, the base remains on red alert, but they finally hear that the bug has attacked a boat off the Canadian coast, which means, Ned calculates, that it is flying at a speed of 200 miles an hour. Ford calls a press conference to announce the bugs existence, and asks the Ground Observer Corps to track its whereabouts. Over the next few days, Ned, Marge and Joe track the bugs progress with the help of military and civilian observers. Late one night, Joe drives Marge home, stopping briefly to ask for, and receive, a kiss. They are distracted by a report of a nearby train wreck, and although they assume it to be an ordinary accident, soon after, a woman leaving a bus sees the mantis, and all emergency personnel are put on alert. The mantis is then sighted in Washington, D.C., atop the Washington Monument. Joe is one of the pilots who attempt to drive the mantis toward the sea, but a dense fog throws him off course, and he flies directly into it. As the wounded mantis drops to the ground and crawls into the Manhattan Tunnel, Joe safely parachutes to the ground. Ford leads a team that seals off the tunnel, filling it with smoke to provide cover for Joe and his special unit of men, who enter the tunnel armed with rifles and three chemical bombs. They creep past wrecked cars until suddenly the bug appears in the fog only a few yards ahead of them. They shoot at it, but it lumbers on, forcing them backward. The mantis seems immune to the ammunition and the first chemical bombs until, only feet from the tunnel entrance, Joe throws a bomb in its face, and it collapses, dead. Later, Ford, Ned, Joe and Marge enter the tunnel to examine the bug. Marge photographs its face while the men walk around its side, but Joe suddenly sees the mantis arm move, and runs to protect Marge. Although Ned explains that the bugs movement was merely an autonomic reflex, Joe takes the opportunity to pull Marge into an embrace.

PROBLEM: Fact1: leaf-gobblers have left path of devastation behind them, Fact2: Cera 's father and Littlefoot 's grandfather argue over changing course, Fact3: Littlefoot leads friends off in wishing to be separated night, Fact4: Petrie being terrified of Big Water to act as lookout, Fact5: Sharptooth hatched in care before returning to parents in second film

SOLUTION:
After a swarm of leafgobblers descends upon the Great Valley, devouring all plants and leaving it a barren wasteland, the inhabitants must seek another place where they can survive until the plants in the Great Valley have grown back. However, the leafgobblers have left a path of devastation behind them, leaving no food for the dinosaurs to find. After searching for many days, tension enters the group as Ceras father and Littlefoots grandfather argue over changing their course, which sparks a fight between Littlefoot and Cera. The fight soon breaks up when Ceras father announces that each herd will go its own way the next morning. Not wishing to be separated, Littlefoot leads his friends off in the night, in the hope they can find food before they are caught. They leave a trail for the grownups to follow, and eventually reach the Big Water. Although they are disheartened by the undrinkable water, they spy a verdant island connected to the mainland by a thin land bridge. On their way, an earthshake occurs, causing it to create a tsunami, which they narrowly escape. They quickly tuck in to the plentiful bounty of the island, but are then horrified to discover the tsunami has destroyed the land bridge. Isolated on the island, they try out Ceras idea to return by using a log as a boat. The plan initially works well, despite Cera suffering seasickness and Petrie being too terrified of the Big Water to act as lookout. However, a swimming sharptooth attacks, and in the confusion and fright which follows, they end up on the island again. That night, they remember their families, while the herd, who followed the trail, sleep on the shores of the beach on the mainland, worrying for them and Ceras father blames their leave on Littlefoot. The next morning, the children wake up to the shadow of a Sharptooth. They take off, but find themselves cornered by high cliffs. They huddle together when the sharptooth approaches, only to find that it is Chomper, a young Sharptooth who hatched in their care before returning to his parents in the second film who has also surprisingly learnt how to talk like the children. Whilst Chomper takes them to a safe refuge to hide from his parents, Ducky is kidnapped by a Sharptooth Flyer, but manages to escape before she can come to any harm. Chomper hides the children in foul smelling plants, and provides them with leafy food upon their request. However, an overcautious Cera openly displays distrust to Chomper because he is a Sharptooth, which grieves him, and he departs. Littlefoot follows him and apologizes, but is interrupted by Chompers mother. She nuzzles him, then leaves. Littlefoot is intrigued by her display of love to Chomper. Meanwhile, a different Sharptooth living on the island finds and chases the children. Chomper tries to help, but the Sharptooth overcomes him. Fortunately, his parents come to the rescue and battle the Sharptooth near the edge of the island, during which he falls into the Big Water and takes Chomper with him, much to his parents shock. Littlefoot plunges in to save Chomper while the Sharptooth is swept away by the current. Another swimming Sharptooth appears, but they discover it was an Elasmosaurus named Elsie who then saves the two from drowning. She returns them to the island, where Chompers grateful family promises never to harm the children; Chompers father grudgingly admits that, after sniffing Spike who had eaten some of the foulsmelling hideout anything that smelt that bad wouldnt taste very good anyway. Chompers mother also nuzzles Littlefoot, in gratitude for his actions to save Chomper from drowning. Cera realises and accepts that not all Sharpteeth are so bad and monstrous as she thought. Elsie offers to take them across the sea, so Chomper and his parents happily bid them farewell, promising that they will see each other again. When back on the mainland, they find that the herd found a lush, green, little sanctuary on the shore to stay in until the Great Valley becomes fertile again.