TASK DEFINITION: Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Mary loved walking through the woods with her dog, Max.
Sent 2: Max and Mary would go on all sorts of adventures together.
Sent 3: They really loved looking for blueberries together and then falling asleep next to each other in the tall grass.
Sent 4: One day, as Mary was picking the blueberries, she turned around to find that Max was not there.
Sent 5: She became worried and ran off to look for her dog.
Sent 6: She looked in all of their favorite spots...next to the stream, in their secret hiding place behind the raspberry bushes, and even inside the old cabin that sat in the woods.
Sent 7: But poor Max was nowhere to be found.
Sent 8: Nonetheless, Mary would not give up.
Sent 9: She kept looking and she found him not very far away.
Sent 10: He had seen a squirrel and run to chase it.
Sent 11: When Mary called Max's name he left the squirrel and happily returned to Mary, wagging his tail as he went.
Question: What did Max and Mary like to do in the woods?.

SOLUTION: Go to an old cabin.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: A day at the beach.
Sent 2: When Sam woke in the morning, he was super excited!
Sent 3: Today was the day!
Sent 4: It was Sunday, the day that Sam's mom and dad had promised to take Sam to the beach.
Sent 5: Sam's grandma had given a pail and shovel to Sam to use in the sand.
Sent 6: At breakfast Sam was so excited he was wiggling in his seat!
Sent 7: Mom told Sam that they would leave when the big hand on the clock was pointing to the 10, and the little had was pointing to the 12.
Sent 8: Mom asked Sam if he would like to help make sandwiches for the trip, and Sam said that he wanted to help.
Sent 9: Dad said, "let's make a game of it, we need to make a sandwich for each of us.
Sent 10: There are three of us, so we need three sandwiches.
Sent 11: Let's count as we make the sandwiches!"Sent 12: Sam counted as mom made the sandwiches, one for dad, one for mom and one for Sam.
Sent 13: Then mom started to make another sandwich!
Sent 14: "Mom!"Sent 15: said Sam, "we have three sandwiches and that makes one sandwich for each of us."Sent 16: Sam's mom laughed, "You're right Sam!"Sent 17: Sam's mom said she was being silly.
Question: Why was Sam excited?.

SOLUTION: He was the day to go to the beach.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: We waited for half an hour, watching the smoke curling over the house, and then, judging that the Indians had made off for fear of being ambushed, we crossed the clearing.
Sent 2: It took but a glance to read the story.
Sent 3: The women had been washing by the little brook before the cabin, with the children playing about them, when the Indians had come up and with a single volley killed them all except the child we had heard crying.
Sent 4: They had swooped down upon their victims, torn the scalps from their heads, looted the house, and set fire to it.
Sent 5: We dragged out the body of the woman which had been thrown within, in the hope that a spark of life might yet remain, but she was quite dead.
Sent 6: Beneath the warrior Spiltdorph had shot we found the child.
Sent 7: It was a boy of some six or seven years, and so covered with blood that it seemed it must be dead.
Sent 8: But we stripped it and washed it in the brook, and found no wounds upon it except in the head, where it had been struck with a hatchet before its scalp had been stripped off.
Sent 9: The cold water brought it back to life and it began to cry again, whereat Spiltdorph took off his coat and wrapped it tenderly about it.
Question: Who washed in the brook?.

SOLUTION:
The women and the boy.