In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.

Passage: Mobilizing in large numbers around the square where the concert was held, police and emergency-response teams quashed the outbreaks of violence. An hour before the five-man group was scheduled to appear, police decided the situation was under control and allowed the show to go on.
Mobilizing

Passage: And while there was no profit this year from discontinued operations, last year they contributed #34 million, before tax. Pretax profit fell 3.7% to #128 million from #133 million and was below analysts' expectations of #130 million to #135 million, but shares rose 6 pence to 388 pence in early trading yesterday in London.
operations

Passage: The businessman said that the reasons for the hijacking are still unclear and that they had no idea of where the pirates took the ship. Olow said that he expected the pirates to contact his company soon.
said