TASK DEFINITION: Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Romans: Legend says Rome was founded by Romulus, sired with twin brother Remus by Mars of a Vestal Virgin and abandoned on the Palatine Hill to be suckled by a she-wolf.
Sent 2: Historians agree with the mythmakers that the site and traditional founding date of 753 b.c.
Sent 3: are just about right.
Sent 4: Under Etruscan domination, Rome had been a monarchy until a revolt in 510 b.c.
Sent 5: established a patrician republic, which lasted five centuries.
Sent 6: In contrast to other Italian cities weakened by internal rivalries and unstable government, Rome drew strength from a solid aristocracy of consuls and senate ruling over plebeians proud of their Roman citizenship and only rarely rebellious.
Sent 7: Recovering quickly from the Gallic invasion of 390 b.c.
Sent 8: , the Romans took effective control of the peninsula by a military conquest reinforced by a network of roads with names that exist to this day: Via Appia, Flaminia, Aurelia.
Sent 9: All roads did indeed lead toand fromRome.
Sent 10: By 250 b.c.
Sent 11: , the city's population had grown to an impressive 100,000.
Sent 12: Roman power extended throughout the Mediterranean with a victory in the Punic Wars against Carthage (now Tunisia) and conquests in Macedonia, Asia Minor, Spain, and southern France.
Sent 13: The rest of Italy participated only by tax contributions to the war effort and minor involvement in commerce and colonization.
Sent 14: Resentment surfaced when former Etruscan or Greek cities such as Capua, Syracuse, and Taranto supported Hannibal's invasion in 218 b.c.
Sent 15: Rome followed up defeat of the Carthaginians with large-scale massacres and enslavement of their Italian supporters.
Sent 16: The Third and final Punic War ended in 149 b.c.
Sent 17: , though national solidarity was still a long way off.
Sent 18: Under Julius Caesar, elected in 59 b.c.
Question: What is the general consensus on the founding of Rome?.

SOLUTION: The site and traditional founding date of 753 b.c. are just about right.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Greta ran to the corner with her older brother Tony.
Sent 2: He had money for the ice cream truck in his pocket and she was very happy.
Sent 3: The ice cream truck had been parked at the curb waiting for children for a very long time.
Sent 4: The ice cream truck driver thought that no more children were coming to get ice cream so he started pulling away from the curb when they got to the corner.
Sent 5: They yelled.
Sent 6: They screamed, "Stop!
Sent 7: Stop!"Sent 8: and jumped up and down on the side walk trying to get him to see them.
Sent 9: The driver of the truck saw them, waved at them and smiled, pulled back to the curb and opened his truck up so that they could see everything that he had for sale.
Sent 10: They were so excited.
Sent 11: They saw some new treats.
Sent 12: Tony wanted to try something new.
Sent 13: He got an ice cream sundae with chocolate ice cream and nuts.
Sent 14: He almost got a snow cone.
Sent 15: Greta looked at everything that the ice cream truck had.
Sent 16: She saw candy, ice cream cones, snow cones, and everything else.
Sent 17: It all looked so good.
Sent 18: But after looking at everything, she wanted to get an ice cream sandwich.
Sent 19: She got the ice cream sandwich.
Sent 20: She bit into it and smiled.
Sent 21: It tasted so good.
Sent 22: She felt so happy.
Sent 23: Her brother, Tony, was happy too.
Sent 24: He bit into his ice cream cone sundae and grinned.
Sent 25: They walked home with their ice cream and told their mom about how close they came to not getting their ice cream at all.
Sent 26: Their mom was happy that the truck had stopped for them.
Sent 27: She said that they were very lucky to have gotten to the curb before the ice cream truck left.
Question: What did Greta and Tony do to get the ice cream truck driver's attention?.

SOLUTION: Jumped up and down and yelled stop.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The city of Edinburgh grew up around the steep, ragged cliff of the Castle Rock and its easily defended summit.
Sent 2: Archaeological excavations have revealed evidence of habitation here as long ago as 900 b.c.
Sent 3: Very little, however, is known about the Rock and its inhabitants in the centuries between its first occupation and the time of the MacAlpin kings.
Sent 4: A few shadowy details have been left to us by the Romans and by an epic poem from the seventh century.
Sent 5: Romans and Britons The Romans invaded Scotland in a.d.
Sent 6: 7884, where they met a fierce group called the Picts, whom they drove north.
Sent 7: They consolidated their gains by building Antonine's Wall across the waist of Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the River Clyde in about a.d.
Sent 8: Roman legions encountered the strongholds of the Castle Rock and Arthur's Seat, held by a tribe of ancient Britons known as the Votadini.
Sent 9: Little is recorded about this group, but they were probably the ancestors of the Gododdin, whose feats are told in a seventh-century Old Welsh manuscript.
Sent 10: The capital of the Gododdin was Din Eidyn (the "Fort of Eidyn," almost certainly the Castle Rock), whose name lives on in the Edin- of Edinburgh.
Sent 11: Din Eidyn fell to the Angles in 638 and became part of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria.
Sent 12: It was the first of many times that the Fort of Eidyn would change hands between the kingdoms of the north and the south.
Sent 13: The MacAlpin Kings Four distinct peoples once inhabited the land now known as Scotland: the Picts in the north, the Britons in the southwest, the invading Angles in the southeast, and the Scots in the west.
Sent 14: The Scots were Gaelic-speaking immigrants from the north of Ireland.
Sent 15: Kenneth MacAlpin, who ruled as king of Scots at Dunadd, acquired the Pictish throne in 843, uniting Scotland north of the River Forth into a single kingdom.
Sent 16: He moved his capitalalong with the Stone of Destiny (on which Scottish kings were crowned)to the sacred Pict site of Scone, close to Perth.
Sent 17: His great-great-great-grandson, Malcolm II (10051034), defeated the Angles at the Battle of Carham in 1018 and extended Scottish territory as far south as the River Tweed.
Question: Where is the city of Edinburgh located? How long has the civilization been around?.

SOLUTION:
Around the steep, ragged cliff of the Castle Rock, 900 bc.