TASK DEFINITION: You are given a background paragraph that describes one or more causal or qualitative relationships such as a relationship in economics or a scientific law and a story that makes use of the concepts or the relationship described in the provided paragraph. You are also given a question about the story that requires an understanding of the relationship described in the background paragraph and the story. You need to come up with an answer to the given question; the answer will be a span from either the question or the story. In order to correctly answer the given question, you need to understand the relationship mentioned in the background paragraph and should be able to use it to understand that in the story. Your answer can not consist of any word that is not mentioned in any of these: the background paragraph, the story, or the question. You can directly copy and paste a span from the story or the question while answering the given question.
PROBLEM: Background Paragraph: Predators play an important role in an ecosystem. For example, if they did not exist, then a single species could become dominant over others. Grazers on a grassland keep grass from growing out of control. Predators can be keystone species . These are species that can have a large effect on the balance of organisms in an ecosystem. For example, if all of the wolves are removed from a population, then the population of deer or rabbits may increase. If there are too many deer, then they may decrease the amount of plants or grasses in the ecosystem. Decreased levels of producers may then have a detrimental effect on the whole ecosystem. In this example, the wolves would be a keystone species.
Story: Two students studied animal behavior for the biology class. Ned studied more about predators, while Kim studied more about herbivores.
Question: Which student studied less about keystone species?

SOLUTION: Kim.

PROBLEM: Background Paragraph: The ionization energies of the representative elements generally decrease from top to bottom within a group. This trend is explained by the increase in size of the atoms within a group. The valence electron that is being removed is further from the nucleus in the case of a larger atom. The attractive force between the valence electron and the nucleus weakens as the distance between them increases and as the shielding effect increases, resulting in a lower ionization energy for the larger atoms within a group. Although the nucl.
Story: Rob is learning about ionization. He looks at a specific group of elements from top to bottom to figure out thier ionization energy.
Question: Which element will have a higher shielding effect, the top element or the bottom element?

SOLUTION: bottom element.

PROBLEM: Background Paragraph: Artworks are sold at affordable prices [6] ranging from 5 to 1500. For many of the works, the price goes up as the edition sells out. The edition runs range from 30 to 10,000 editions. Each work comes with a digital certificate that is "signed, numbered and authenticated by the artist" [7][8] Once an edition is sold out, collectors can resell their works in the online marketplace.
Story: A big art store had limited edition artworks for sale last week. They all had 200 pieces at the beginning of the week. By the end of the week, they started to sell out. There were only 190 The Sleeping Gypsy, 180 The Gleaners, 150 Primavera, 100 Olympia, 50 View of Toledo, 25 Bacchus And Ariadne, and 5 The Sleepers left.
Question: What edition will most likely have it's price increased: Primavera or The Sleepers?

SOLUTION:
The Sleepers.