TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
PROBLEM: young boys played against olympique marseille and lost 2-3 with 14,000 spectators watching.

SOLUTION: young boys played against olympique marseille and lost 2-3 with 14,000 viewers watching.

PROBLEM: for instance , many of the germanic states -lrb- as well as english reformation -rrb- converted to protestantism in an attempt to slip out of the grasp of the pope.

SOLUTION: for example , many of the germanic states -lrb- as well as english reformation -rrb- converted to protestantism as a means to break away from the authority of pope.

PROBLEM: trigonometric functions are important in the study of triangles and modeling periodic phenomena , among many other applications.

SOLUTION:
trigonometric functions are important in many ways , one of which , the study of triangles and modeling periodic phenomena.