Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: It can be inferred that there were more Chinese people in what region of the country prior to the Chinese Exclusion Act? Context: Chinese men entered the United States as laborers, primarily on the West Coast and in western territories. Following the Reconstruction era, as blacks set up independent farms, white planters imported Chinese laborers to satisfy their need for labor. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, and Chinese workers who chose to stay in the U.S. were unable to have their wives join them. In the South, some Chinese married into the black and mulatto communities, as generally discrimination meant they did not take white spouses. They rapidly left working as laborers, and set up groceries in small towns throughout the South. They worked to get their children educated and socially mobile.
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Q: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: Which of the following is not a type of plant: sugar beets, roots, or willows? Context: The root system and the shoot system are interdependent the usually nonphotosynthetic root system depends on the shoot system for food, and the usually photosynthetic shoot system depends on water and minerals from the root system. Cells in each system are capable of creating cells of the other and producing adventitious shoots or roots. Stolons and tubers are examples of shoots that can grow roots. Roots that spread out close to the surface, such as those of willows, can produce shoots and ultimately new plants. In the event that one of the systems is lost, the other can often regrow it. In fact it is possible to grow an entire plant from a single leaf, as is the case with Saintpaulia, or even a single cell which can dedifferentiate into a callus (a mass of unspecialised cells) that can grow into a new plant. In vascular plants, the xylem and phloem are the conductive tissues that transport resources between shoots and roots. Roots are often adapted to store food such as sugars or starch, as in sugar beets and carrots.
A: roots

Question: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: Which battle started earlier, the Battle of Bloody Ridge or the Battle of Kumsong? Context: The principal battles of the stalemate include the Battle of Bloody Ridge (18 August15 September 1951), the Battle of the Punchbowl (31 August-21 September 1951), the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge (13 September15 October 1951), the Battle of Old Baldy (26 June4 August 1952), the Battle of White Horse (615 October 1952), the Battle of Triangle Hill (14 October25 November 1952), the Battle of Hill Eerie (21 March21 June 1952), the sieges of Outpost Harry (1018 June 1953), the Battle of the Hook (2829 May 1953), the Battle of Pork Chop Hill (23 March16 July 1953), and the Battle of Kumsong (1327 July 1953).
Answer: the Battle of Bloody Ridge

[Q]: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: The common version of this language is the what version? Context: In addition to a spoken standard and a closely related written standard, Czech has several regional dialects primarily used in rural areas by speakers less proficient in other dialects or standard Czech. During the second half of the twentieth century, Czech dialect use began to weaken. By the early 1990s dialect use was stigmatized, associated with the shrinking lower class and used in literature or other media for comedic effect. Increased travel and media availability to dialect-speaking populations has encouraged them to shift to (or add to their own dialect) standard Czech. Although Czech has received considerable scholarly interest for a Slavic language, this interest has focused primarily on modern standard Czech and ancient texts rather than dialects. Standard Czech is still the norm for politicians, businesspeople and other Czechs in formal situations, but Common Czech is gaining ground in journalism and the mass media.
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input: Please answer the following: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: What is a type of stone in the layers? Context: The core regions of the Alpine orogenic belt have been folded and fractured in such a manner that erosion created the characteristic steep vertical peaks of the Swiss Alps that rise seemingly straight out of the foreland areas. Peaks such as Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and high peaks in the Pennine Alps, the Brianconnais, and Hohe Tauern consist of layers of rock from the various orogenies including exposures of basement rock.
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output: basement

Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: The Russian Federation used to be? Context: On December 25, 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the republic was renamed the Russian Federation, which it remains to this day. This name and "Russia" were specified as the official state names in the April 21, 1992 amendment to the existing constitution and were retained as such in the 1993 Constitution of Russia.
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the Soviet Union