A bird sits in a tree.
A bird sits in a leafless tree.

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

Tuition at four-year private colleges averaged $19,710 this year, up 6 percent from 2002.
For the current academic year, tuition at public colleges averaged $4,694, up almost $600 from the year before.

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: 2

Funny, I thought the same thing about some math.
And here I thought I knew me some math.

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: 2

A dog splashing in the water.
A dog splashes in the murky water.

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