Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.
Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.

Rate the textual similarity of these two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing".

Answer: 3

A dog with big ears is holding a small stick in it's mouth.
A puppy with big ears chewing on a stick.

Rate the textual similarity of these two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing".

Answer: 4

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet of Soil and Strife, Dies at 74
Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Nobel winner, dies at 74

Rate the textual similarity of these two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing".

Answer: 5

However, commercial use of the 2.6.0 kernel is still months off for most customers.
Commercial releases of the 2.6 kernel by major Linux distributors still remain months away.

Rate the textual similarity of these two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing".

Answer:
4