nc33/MultiSpan_SQUAD huggingface dataset:
Old_English

The form of the verb varies with person (first, second and third), number (singular and plural), tense (present and past), and mood (indicative, subjunctive and imperative). Old English also sometimes uses compound constructions to express other verbal aspects, the future and the passive voice; in these we see the beginnings of the compound tenses of Modern English. Old English verbs include strong verbs, which form the past tense by altering the root vowel, and weak verbs, which use a suffix such as -de. As in Modern English, and peculiar to the Germanic languages, the verbs formed two great classes: weak (regular), and strong (irregular). Like today, Old English had fewer strong verbs, and many of these have over time decayed into weak forms. Then, as now, dental suffixes indicated the past tense of the weak verbs, as in work and worked.

Question: Along with the present, what was a verb tense in Old English?
Answer: past

Question: What were the three moods that caused verb variation in Old English?
Answer: indicative, subjunctive and imperative

Question: Along with the first and second, what person influenced verb variation in Old English?
Answer: third

Question: What is an example of a suffix used by Old English weak verbs?
Answer: -de

Question: How did Old English strong verbs express the past tense?
Answer: altering the root vowel
Old_English

Old English is a West Germanic language, developing out of Ingvaeonic (also known as North Sea Germanic) dialects from the 5th century. It came to be spoken over most of the territory of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which became the Kingdom of England. This included most of present-day England, as well as part of what is now southeastern Scotland, which for several centuries belonged to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Other parts of the island – Wales and most of Scotland – continued to use Celtic languages, except in the areas of Scandinavian settlements where Old Norse was spoken. Celtic speech also remained established in certain parts of England: Medieval Cornish was spoken all over Cornwall and in adjacent parts of Devon, while Cumbric survived perhaps to the 12th century in parts of Cumbria, and Welsh may have been spoken on the English side of the Anglo-Welsh border. Norse was also widely spoken in the parts of England which fell under Danish law.

Question: What language family does Old English belong to?
Answer: West Germanic

Question: What is another name for Ingvaeonic?
Answer: North Sea Germanic

Question: In what century did Old English first develop?
Answer: 5th

Question: What Anglo-Saxon kingdom ruled parts of modern-day Scotland?
Answer: Northumbria

Question: What language was spoken in Cornwall?
Answer: Medieval Cornish
Old_English

Some of the most important surviving works of Old English literature are Beowulf, an epic poem; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a record of early English history; the Franks Casket, an inscribed early whalebone artefact; and Cædmon's Hymn, a Christian religious poem. There are also a number of extant prose works, such as sermons and saints' lives, biblical translations, and translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers, legal documents, such as laws and wills, and practical works on grammar, medicine, and geography. Still, poetry is considered the heart of Old English literature. Nearly all Anglo-Saxon authors are anonymous, with a few exceptions, such as Bede and Cædmon. Cædmon, the earliest English poet we know by name, served as a lay brother in the monastery at Whitby.

Question: What is an important Old English historical record?
Answer: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Question: What is an important Old English religious poem?
Answer: Cædmon's Hymn

Question: What type of literary work is Beowulf?
Answer: an epic poem

Question: Who is the earliest English poet known by name?
Answer: Cædmon

Question: Where did Cædmon live?
Answer: Whitby
Old_English

Old English developed from a set of Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic dialects originally spoken by Germanic tribes traditionally known as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. As the Anglo-Saxons became dominant in England, their language replaced the languages of Roman Britain: Common Brittonic, a Celtic language, and Latin, brought to Britain by Roman invasion. Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish and West Saxon. It was West Saxon that formed the basis for the literary standard of the later Old English period, although the dominant forms of Middle and Modern English would develop mainly from Mercian. The speech of eastern and northern parts of England was subject to strong Old Norse influence due to Scandinavian rule and settlement beginning in the 9th century.

Question: What is another name for Anglo-Frisian?
Answer: North Sea Germanic

Question: What language family did Common Brittonic belong to?
Answer: Celtic

Question: How was the Latin language brought to Britain?
Answer: Roman invasion

Question: In what century did Scandinavian settlement begin in northern England?
Answer: 9th

Question: Along with the Angles and Saxons, what tribe spoke Anglo-Frisian?
Answer: Jutes
Old_English

With the unification of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (outside the Danelaw) by Alfred the Great in the later 9th century, the language of government and literature became standardised around the West Saxon dialect (Early West Saxon). Alfred advocated education in English alongside Latin, and had many works translated into the English language; some of them, such as Pope Gregory I's treatise Pastoral Care, appear to have been translated by Alfred himself. In Old English, typical of the development of literature, poetry arose before prose, but King Alfred the Great (871 to 901) chiefly inspired the growth of prose.

Question: What treatise was written by Pope Gregory?
Answer: Pastoral Care

Question: What dialect did Alfred's government use?
Answer: West Saxon

Question: In what century did Alfred unify Anglo-Saxon England?
Answer: 9th

Question: When did Alfred the Great's reign begin?
Answer: 871

Question: What king unified the Anglo-Saxon realms in England?
Answer: Alfred the Great
Old_English

Each of these four dialects was associated with an independent kingdom on the island. Of these, Northumbria south of the Tyne, and most of Mercia, were overrun by the Vikings during the 9th century. The portion of Mercia that was successfully defended, and all of Kent, were then integrated into Wessex under Alfred the Great. From that time on, the West Saxon dialect (then in the form now known as Early West Saxon) became standardised as the language of government, and as the basis for the many works of literature and religious materials produced or translated from Latin in that period.

Question: Along with Northumbria, what kingdom was invaded by the Vikings?
Answer: Mercia

Question: Along with the part of Mercia not conquered by the Vikings, what other kingdom was combined with Wessex by Alfred?
Answer: Kent

Question: What is the modern name for the West Saxon dialect of Alfred's time?
Answer: Early West Saxon

Question: From what language was literature notably translated into West Saxon?
Answer: Latin

Question: North of what river in Northumbria was the kingdom not overrun by the Vikings?
Answer: Tyne
Old_English

Another source of loanwords was Old Norse, which came into contact with Old English via the Scandinavian rulers and settlers in the Danelaw from the late 9th century, and during the rule of Cnut and other Danish kings in the early 11th century. Many place-names in eastern and northern England are of Scandinavian origin. Norse borrowings are relatively rare in Old English literature, being mostly terms relating to government and administration. The literary standard, however, was based on the West Saxon dialect, away from the main area of Scandinavian influence; the impact of Norse may have been greater in the eastern and northern dialects. Certainly in Middle English texts, which are more often based on eastern dialects, a strong Norse influence becomes apparent. Modern English contains a great many, often everyday, words that were borrowed from Old Norse, and the grammatical simplification that occurred after the Old English period is also often attributed to Norse influence.

Question: During what century did Cnut rule?
Answer: 11th

Question: What was Cnut's nationality?
Answer: Danish

Question: During what century did Scandinavians begin to settle in England?
Answer: 9th

Question: What language was a source for English loanwords that are still used today?
Answer: Old Norse

Question: Along with eastern England, what part of England contains many place names of Scandinavian origin?
Answer: northern
Old_English

Modern editions of Old English manuscripts generally introduce some additional conventions. The modern forms of Latin letters are used, including ⟨g⟩ in place of the insular G, ⟨s⟩ for long S, and others which may differ considerably from the insular script, notably ⟨e⟩, ⟨f⟩ and ⟨r⟩. Macrons are used to indicate long vowels, where usually no distinction was made between long and short vowels in the originals. (In some older editions an acute accent mark was used for consistency with Old Norse conventions.) Additionally, modern editions often distinguish between velar and palatal ⟨c⟩ and ⟨g⟩ by placing dots above the palatals: ⟨ċ⟩, ⟨ġ⟩. The letter wynn ⟨ƿ⟩ is usually replaced with ⟨w⟩, but æsc, eth and thorn are normally retained (except when eth is replaced by thorn).

Question: What form of c, when written, contains a dot over the letter?
Answer: palatal

Question: What conventional letter from the Latin alphabet typically replaces the wynn from Old English?
Answer: w

Question: What letter from the Latin alphabet replaces the Old English insular G?
Answer: g

Question: What Latin letter is used in place of the Old English long S?
Answer: s

Question: When eth is replaced, what is it replaced by?
Answer: thorn
Old_English

Like other historical languages, Old English has been used by scholars and enthusiasts of later periods to create texts either imitating Anglo-Saxon literature or deliberately transferring it to a different cultural context. Examples include Alistair Campbell and J. R. R. Tolkien. A number of websites devoted to Neo-Paganism and Historical re-enactment offer reference material and forums promoting the active use of Old English. By far the most ambitious project[peacock term] is the Old English Wikipedia, but most of the Neo-Old English texts published online bear little resemblance to the historical model and are riddled with very basic grammatical mistakes.

Question: What modern religion sometimes uses Old English?
Answer: Neo-Paganism

Question: What hobby champions the use of Old English?
Answer: Historical re-enactment

Question: Along with Tolkien, what modern scholar notably made use of Old English?
Answer: Alistair Campbell

Question: What Wikipedia project makes use of the Old English language?
Answer: the Old English Wikipedia

Question: What is a term for modern texts written in Old English?
Answer: Neo-Old English
Aircraft_carrier

A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most were built from mercantile hulls or, in the case of merchant aircraft carriers, were bulk cargo ships with a flight deck added on top. Light aircraft carriers were carriers that were fast enough to operate with the fleet but of smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity. Soviet aircraft carriers now in use by Russia are actually called heavy aviation cruisers, these ships while sized in the range of large fleet carriers were designed to deploy alone or with escorts and provide both strong defensive weaponry and heavy offensive missiles equivalent to a guided missile cruiser in addition to supporting fighters and helicopters.

Question: What type of carrier is the largest?
Answer: fleet carrier

Question: What capability does a fleet carrier offer?
Answer: offensive

Question: What purpose were excort carriers developed for?
Answer: to provide defense for convoys of ships

Question: What were most escort carriers built from?
Answer: mercantile hulls

Question: What are the soviet aircraft carriers used by Russia actually called?
Answer: heavy aviation cruisers
Aircraft_carrier

This new-found importance of naval aviation forced nations to create a number of carriers, in efforts to provide air superiority cover for every major fleet in order to ward off enemy aircraft. This extensive usage required the construction of several new 'light' carriers. Escort aircraft carriers, such as USS Bogue, were sometimes purpose-built, but most were converted from merchant ships as a stop-gap measure to provide anti-submarine air support for convoys and amphibious invasions. Following this concept, light aircraft carriers built by the US, such as USS Independence, represented a larger, more "militarized" version of the escort carrier. Although with similar complement to Escort carriers, they had the advantage of speed from their converted cruiser hulls. The UK 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier was designed for building quickly by civilian shipyards and with an expected service life of about 3 years. They served the Royal Navy during the war and was the hull design chosen for nearly all aircraft carrier equipped navies after the war until the 1980s. Emergencies also spurred the creation or conversion of highly unconventional aircraft carriers. CAM ships, were cargo-carrying merchant ships that could launch (but not retrieve) a single fighter aircraft from a catapult to defend the convoy from long range German aircraft.

Question: What type of aircraft carrier was the USS Bogue?
Answer: Escort

Question: What type of aircraft was the USS Independence?
Answer: light

Question: What advantage did light carriers have over escort carriers?
Answer: speed

Question: What was the expected serice life of the UK 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier?
Answer: 3 years

Question: Who did the UK 1941 Design Light Fleet Carriers serve during the war?
Answer: Royal Navy
Aircraft_carrier

Speaking in St. Petersburg, Russia on 30 June 2011, the head of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation said his company expected to begin design work for a new carrier in 2016, with a goal of beginning construction in 2018 and having the carrier achieve initial operational capability by 2023. Several months later, on 3 November 2011 the Russian newspaper Izvestiya reported that the naval building plan now included (first) the construction of a new shipyard capable of building large hull ships, after which Moscow will build two (80,000 tons full load each) nuclear-powered aircraft carriers by 2027. The spokesperson said one carrier would be assigned to the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet at Murmansk, and the second would be stationed with the Pacific Fleet at Vladivostok.

Question: When did Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation expect to begin design work for a new carrier?
Answer: 2016

Question: What year was the goal for Russia's new carrier to achieve initial operational capability?
Answer: 2023

Question: What was Izvestiya?
Answer: Russian newspaper

Question: Where was the Northern Fleets nuclear-powered aircraft carrier supposed to be stationed?
Answer: Murmansk

Question: Where was the Pacific Fleets nuclear-powered aircraft carrier supposed to be stationed?
Answer: Vladivostok
Aircraft_carrier

As "runways at sea", aircraft carriers have a flat-top flight deck, which launches and recovers aircraft. Aircraft launch forward, into the wind, and are recovered from astern. The flight deck is where the most notable differences between a carrier and a land runway are found. Creating such a surface at sea poses constraints on the carrier – for example, the fact that it is a ship means that a full-length runway would be costly to construct and maintain. This affects take-off procedure, as a shorter runway length of the deck requires that aircraft accelerate more quickly to gain lift. This either requires a thrust boost, a vertical component to its velocity, or a reduced take-off load (to lower mass). The differing types of deck configuration, as above, influence the structure of the flight deck. The form of launch assistance a carrier provides is strongly related to the types of aircraft embarked and the design of the carrier itself.

Question: What are typically regarded as "runways at sea"?
Answer: aircraft carriers

Question: What design feature do aircraft carriers feature to aid in launching and recovering aircraft?
Answer: flat-top flight deck

Question: Where are the most notable differences between a carrier and a land runway found?
Answer: The flight deck

Question: What is a primary reason that ships have shorter runways than land runways have?
Answer: a full-length runway would be costly to construct and maintain

Question: What do aircraft need to do when using shorter runway lengths?
Answer: accelerate more quickly to gain lift
Aircraft_carrier

Since the early 1950s on conventional carriers it has been the practice to recover aircraft at an angle to port of the axial line of the ship. The primary function of this angled deck is to allow aircraft that miss the arresting wires, referred to as a bolter, to become airborne again without the risk of hitting aircraft parked forward. The angled deck allows the installation of one or two "waist" catapults in addition to the two bow cats. An angled deck also improves launch and recovery cycle flexibility with the option of simultaneous launching and recovery of aircraft.

Question: When did conventional carriers start recovering aircraft at an angle to port of the axial line of the ship?
Answer: early 1950s

Question: What risk is avoided by aircraft by using an angled deck?
Answer: hitting aircraft parked forward

Question: How many "waist" catapults can be installed with an angled deck?
Answer: one or two

Question: How man bow cats can be installed with an angled deck?
Answer: two

Question: What aircraft design feature improves launch and recovery cycle flexibilty?
Answer: An angled deck
Aircraft_carrier

Another deck structure that can be seen is a ski-jump ramp at the forward end of the flight deck. This was first developed to help launch STOVL aircraft take off at far higher weights than is possible with a vertical or rolling takeoff on flat decks. Originally developed by the Royal Navy, it since has been adopted by many navies for smaller carriers. A ski-jump ramp works by converting some of the forward rolling movement of the aircraft into vertical velocity and is sometimes combined with the aiming of jet thrust partly downwards. This allows heavily loaded and fueled aircraft a few more precious seconds to attain sufficient air velocity and lift to sustain normal flight. Without a ski-jump launching fully loaded and fueled aircraft such as the Harrier would not be possible on a smaller flat deck ship before either stalling out or crashing directly into the sea.

Question: Where are ski-jump ramps located on aircraft carriers?
Answer: the forward end of the flight deck

Question: What did ski-jump ramps allow STOVL aircraft to do that they couldn't do with a flat deck??
Answer: take off at far higher weights

Question: Who originally developed the ski-jump ramp?
Answer: the Royal Navy

Question: What does a ski-jump ramp convert in order to be successful?
Answer: some of the forward rolling movement of the aircraft into vertical velocity

Question: What does the ski-jump ramp prevent a fully loaded and fueled aircraft from doing?
Answer: either stalling out or crashing directly into the sea
Aircraft_carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations. Aircraft carriers are expensive to build and are critical assets. Aircraft carriers have evolved from converted cruisers to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighter planes, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft.

Question: What type of flight decks are aircraft carriers equipped with?
Answer: full-length

Question: What purpose do aircraft carriers serve for aircraft?
Answer: carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering

Question: Typically, what is the capital ship of any fleet?
Answer: An aircraft carrier

Question: What have the old converted cruiser aircraft carriers evolved into?
Answer: nuclear-powered warships

Question: What do aircraft carriers allow naval forces to accomplish?
Answer: project air power worldwide without depending on local bases
Aircraft_carrier

The 1903 advent of heavier-than-air fixed-wing aircraft was closely followed in 1910 by the first experimental take-off of an airplane, made from the deck of a United States Navy vessel (cruiser USS Birmingham), and the first experimental landings were conducted in 1911. On 9 May 1912 the first airplane take-off from a ship underway was made from the deck of the British Royal Navy's HMS Hibernia. Seaplane tender support ships came next, with the French Foudre of 1911. In September 1914 the Imperial Japanese Navy Wakamiya conducted the world's first successful ship-launched air raid: on 6 September 1914 a Farman aircraft launched by Wakamiya attacked the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth and the German gunboat Jaguar in Kiaochow Bay off Tsingtao; neither was hit. The first carrier-launched airstrike was the Tondern Raid in July 1918. Seven Sopwith Camels launched from the converted battlecruiser HMS Furious damaged the German airbase at Tønder and destroyed two zeppelins.

Question: In what year was the advent of heavier-than-air fixed-wing aircraft?
Answer: 1903

Question: In what year was the first experimental take-off of an airplane?
Answer: 1910

Question: In what year were the first experimental landings of an airplane?
Answer: 1911

Question: What was the first carrier-launched airstrike?
Answer: the Tondern Raid in July 1918

Question: What did the Imperial Japanese Navy Wakamiya conduct in September 1914?
Answer: the world's first successful ship-launched air raid
Aircraft_carrier

Modern navies that operate such aircraft carriers treat them as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously held by the battleship. This change took place during World War II in response to air power becoming a significant factor in warfare, driven by the superior range, flexibility and effectiveness of carrier-launched aircraft. Following the war, carrier operations continued to increase in size and importance. Supercarriers, displacing 75,000 tonnes or greater, have become the pinnacle of carrier development. Some are powered by nuclear reactors and form the core of a fleet designed to operate far from home. Amphibious assault ships, such as USS Tarawa and HMS Ocean, serve the purpose of carrying and landing Marines, and operate a large contingent of helicopters for that purpose. Also known as "commando carriers" or "helicopter carriers", many have the capability to operate VSTOL aircraft.

Question: Which ship was originally known as being the capital ship of the fleet?
Answer: the battleship

Question: When did aircraft carriers begin being know as the capital ship of the fleet?
Answer: World War II

Question: What type of carrier is capable of displacing 75,000 tonnes or greater?
Answer: Supercarriers

Question: Which ships are used for carrying and landing Marines?
Answer: Amphibious assault ships

Question: What do Amphibious assalut ships need a large contingent of for carrying Marines?
Answer: helicopters