Part 1. Definition
Generate an explanation for the given claim using the provided supporting material from the paragraph. Please consider the following points while generating an output. 1) The claim will always have supporting proof in the paragraph, and the paragraph will have a clear point of view supporting the claim. 2) There can be instances where direct correlation to the claim is not available. Make use of the sentences in the paragraph to provide a corresponding output supporting the claim. 3) The explanation should be at least one and at most twelve sentences long.
Part 2. Example
Paragraph: "Although the story didn't cite the cost of appendectomy emergency or urgent surgery and we wish it had, we nonetheless will give it a satisfactory score because it at least cited what the editorial writer wrote, ""A secondary benefit is the savings to the hospital generated by minimizing staff and anesthesiologist presence late in the evening and during the wee hours of the morning."" As with our harms score above, although the story didn't give absolute numbers, in this case we think it was sufficient for it to report that ""The scientists found no significant difference among the groups in the patients' condition 30 days after surgery or in the length of their operation or hospital stay."" Although the story didn't give absolute numbers, in this case we think it was sufficient for it to report that ""The scientists found no significant difference among the groups in the patients' condition 30 days after surgery or in the length of their operation or hospital stay."" Despite running less than 300 words, this story did an adequate job in explaining the quality of the evidence, including pointing out limitations. No disease-mongering here. The story meets the bare minimum requirement for this criterion in that it at least cited what an editorial stated. The focus of the story was on a study comparing emergency appendectomy with surgery done up to 12 hours later or beyond. This is the whole focus of the story and one we applaud when it begins: ""Appendectomy is the most common emergency surgery in the world, but it doesn't have to be."" There were no claims made about the novelty of this research, and we may have wished for a bit more context on this. Nonetheless, the potential for guiding future care decisions was made clear. Not applicable. Given that the story only pulled excerpts from the journal article and the accompanying editorial, and didn't include any fresh quotes from interviews, we can't be sure of the extent to which it may have been influenced by a news release.". Claim: Some appendicitis cases may not require 'emergency' surgery
Answer: We really don't understand why only a handful of mainstream news organizations reported this story. (At least in what we found.) The most common emergency surgery in the world. Rushing to emergency surgery may not carry any benefit. Waiting a few hours may be safer and less expensive. Why is that not a story? We applaud USA Today for finding time and space and clearly it didn't need to free up much space to do a good job telling the story. The story explains that as many as 300,0 appendectomies are done each year in the US. That figure alone explains why this is an important study to report.
Explanation: The output is an analysis of the claim while considering the paragraph as a reference. The output highlights the key features presented in the paragraph and explains the claim accordingly.
Part 3. Exercise
Paragraph: American baseball player Morris "Moe" Berg, whose major league career spanned 15 unillustrious seasons onfour different teams between1923 and 1939, never advanced beyond the positions of backup catcher and substitute shortstop. He spent more time on the bench than he did on the diamond, it was said. "He can speak seven languages but he can't hit in any of them," a teammate complained of Berg, who, despite beingaPrinceton graduateand holdinga law degree from Columbia University, led an outwardly unremarkable, even mysterious,life. If not for his secret exploits as a military spy during World War II, in fact, Moe Berg might not be remembered at all today. Thanks to his work for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the progenitor of today's CIA), Berg will go down in history. Principal shooting began in February 2017on afeature filmabout the life of Moe Berg, whose wartime activities, thoughnot unknown to historians, have gone largely unrecognized by the general public. The film, titledThe Catcher Was a Spy, focuses onBerg's mission to track down the famous German physicist Werner Heisenbergin Europe, for purposes of assessing the Nazis' nuclear capabilities. Some say he was ordered to assassinate Heisenberg, if necessary, to impede the Germans' atom bomb program. A number of newspaper and magazine articles have been written about Berg's adventuresas a spy(including one by the CIA), not to mention the 1994book on which the film is based, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff. To the extent most people areaware of Berg's name at all these days, however, the morefamiliar source isprobably thisanonymous, unabashedly hyperbolic viral article circulating via social media since 2013: Speaking fifteen languages including Japanese Moe Berg had two loves: baseball and spying. In Tokyo, garbed in a kimono, Berg took flowers to the daughter of an American diplomat being treated in St. Luke's Hospital the tallest building in the Japanese capital. He never delivered the flowers. The ball-player ascended to the hospital roof and photographed the harbor, military installations, railway yards, etc. Eight years later, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle carefully studied Berg's photos in planning his spectacular raid, later characterized as "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo." Berg's father, Bernard Berg, a pharmacist in Newark, New Jersey, taught his son Hebrew and Yiddish. Moe, against his wishes, began playing baseball on the street at age four. His father disapproved and never once watched his son play. In Barringer High School, Moe learned Latin, Greek and French. He graduated magna cum laudefrom Princeton, having added Spanish, Italian, German and Sanskrit to his linguistic quiver. During further studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, and Columbia Law School, he picked up Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Arabic, Portuguese and Hungarian, plus some regional dialects. During World War II, he parachuted into Yugoslavia to assess the value to the war effort of the two groups of partisans there. He reported back that Marshall Tito's forces were widely supported by the people and Winston Churchill ordered all-out support for the Yugoslav underground fighter, rather than Mihajlovic's Serbians. The parachute jump at age 41 undoubtedly was a challenge. But there was more to come in that same year. [Read full article] The text, which proceeds to recount Berg's tripto Zurich to find (and possibly kill) Heisenberg, appears to have been drawn from publishedsources (a 1992 Chicago Tribune articleby Ron Grossman titled "Berg Moe Berg", for one), but Nicholas Dawidoff's more thorough research calls some of its more outlandish claims intoquestion. Berg had a natural facility for languages and word origins, for example, but hewasn't fluent in any foreign language, aNew York Times review of Dawifdoff's book notes (certainly not Sanskrit!). Nor is it known for certain that a critical part of Berg's mission in Switzerland was to assassinate Heisenberg: As for his spying exploits: Mr. Dawidoff writes that Berg was never ordered to photograph Tokyo; the notion was purely Berg's invention. Nor were his pictures ever consulted for Doolittle's raid. And while Berg may well have been assigned to assassinate Heisenberg, Mr. Dawidoff writes that "the whole situation was charged with improbability." As he concludes: "Only a large dose of O.S.S. wishful thinking finds Heisenberg, with his bomb nearly built, telling a lecture hall full of foreigners about it." Berg adoredbeing a wartime spy, it seems, and did not do well when he returned to the United States after the war came to an end. Despite acceptingoccasional work for the CIA, Berg found himself penniless, rootless, and aimless in later years, Dawidoff notes. He lived with his older sister, Ethel, until he died in 1972 at the age of 70. Hewas cremated and his ashes interredin his parents' New Jersey cemetery plot, but the urn was exhumed by his sister and moved to an unknown location in Israel. Claim: "Morris ""Moe"" Berg, a multilingual Princeton University graduate who played major league baseball throughout the 1920s and '30s, lived a life of danger and intrigue as a U.S. military intelligence officer in Europe during World War II."
Answer:
"[Ethel] died in 1987," Dawidoff writes, noting a plot twist Berg himself would have approved, "so the final mystery of Moe Berg's life is that nobody knows where he is."