TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be given a passage, a question and a list of single-word events identified from the passage. The goal is to point out all events from the given event list that can answer the question. If a question is unanswerable or none of the events answer the question, output should be empty.
PROBLEM: Passage: By comparison, for the first nine months, Xerox earned $492 million, or $4.55 a share, on revenue of $12.97 billion. Earnings at Xerox's financial-services operations actually rose slightly, but that was largely because capital gains at Crum amp Forster offset Hurricane Hugo payments and the reserves set up to cover future payments. Question: What happened after service operations rose? Events: ['comparison', 'earned', 'rose', 'offset', 'cover']

SOLUTION: comparison

PROBLEM: Passage: The latest results include some unusual write-downs, which had an after-tax impact of $4.9 million. Those included costs associated with the potential Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association acquisition, which was terminated on Sept. 27, 1989. Question: What might have happened before results but did not? Events: ['results', 'write-downs', 'impact', 'acquisition', 'terminated', 'costs']

SOLUTION: acquisition

PROBLEM: Passage: Wholesale prices in the United States fell by 1.6 percent in October, tying with the record decline set in the same month of 2001, the Labor Department reported on Tuesday. The big drop in wholesale prices, a gauge of inflation at the factory gate, followed a 1.3 percent fall in September and was sharper than the 0.5 percent decline expected by analysts. Question: What happened before the big drop in wholesale prices? Events: ['set', 'reported', 'drop', 'followed', 'fall', 'was', 'expected', 'fell', 'tying']

SOLUTION:
set