This is a paraphrasing task. In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate another sentence which express same meaning as the input using different words.

Input: Consider Input: your honor ... - and are you aware that had those water fountains been working , jenny evans would still be alive ?

Output: and you 're aware that if those fountains were working , jenny evans would still be alive ?

Input: Consider Input: perhaps they could tell us , but they have not chosen to do so .

Output: they might have told us , but they chose not to say .

Input: Consider Input: this conserves to the maximum extent possible the current practice .
Output: to the maximum extent , it maintains the existing practice .