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question:Hong Kong protesters in standoff with police Dozens of pro-democracy protesters were in a standoff with a large number of riot police near Hong Kong’s government headquarters on Tuesday night. Television stations showed hundreds of police wearing helmets and holding shields and batons facing off with student-led protesters, who have occupied key roads and streets in Hong Kong’s business district for more than two weeks. The two sides have been locked in a stalemate after the government called off negotiations last week. It was not immediately clear what caused Tuesday night’s standoff, but local television reports said it began when police arrested a protester. Some demonstrators then tried to take over a tunnel in front of the government headquarters near the entrance to the office of the city’s leader. The reports said police used pepper spray to try to disperse the protesters but then retreated, leaving the tunnel in the hands of the protesters, who were building barricades to expand the occupied area. Earlier, police cleared barricades from the pro-democracy protest zones, signalling authorities’ growing impatience with the activists. Officers used electric saws and bolt-cutters to take down bamboo scaffolding in the Admiralty area, after a mob of masked men stormed some of the barricades the day before. Police also removed metal barricades from another protest camp on a road in the nearby Causeway Bay shopping area to free up a lane for traffic. Police said they would continue to take down barriers, and said officers arrested 23 men on Monday when masked men and taxi drivers led a crowd of several hundred who tried to charge the protest zone. The protesters want China’s government to drop plans for a pro-Beijing committee to screen candidates in the territory’s first direct elections, promised for 2017. They also demand that Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed leader, Leung Chun-ying, resign. Leung has said there is “almost zero chance” that China’s government will change its rules for the 2017 election. The demonstrations have posed an unprecedented challenge to the government. Organisers say as many as 200,000 people thronged the streets for peaceful sit-ins after police used teargas on 28 September to disperse unarmed protesters. Numbers have since dwindled and the remaining demonstrators, sensing that the earlier actions were aimed at testing their defences, are braced for possible further police moves to clear out their camps. Beijing is eager to end the protests to avoid emboldening activists and others on the mainland seen as a threat to the Communist party’s monopoly on power. What are the most important parts of this text?
answer:The most important parts of this text are: 1. The ongoing standoff between pro-democracy protesters and riot police near Hong Kong's government headquarters, marking a tense situation in the city. 2. The protesters' occupation of key roads and streets in Hong Kong's business district for more than two weeks, disrupting normal operations in the area. 3. The stalemate between the government and protesters that resulted after the government called off negotiations last week. 4. The escalation of the standoff after the arrest of a protester, leading to demonstrators attempting to takeover a tunnel in front of the government headquarters. 5. The use of pepper spray by the police to disperse protesters and their subsequent retreat, leaving the tunnel in the hands of protesters. 6. Authorities' increasing impatience with the protesters, as evidenced by police clearing barricades from the protest zones. 7. The demands of the protesters: for China's government to drop plans for a pro-Beijing committee to screen candidates in the territory's first direct elections in 2017, and for the resignation of Hong Kong's Beijing-backed leader, Leung Chun-ying. 8. The demonstrations posing an unprecedented challenge to the government and Beijing's eagerness to end the protests to prevent emboldening mainland activists and others seen as a threat to the Communist party's monopoly on power.
question:In this task you are given a sentence. You must judge whether subject of the main clause is singular or plural. Label the instances as "Singular" or "Plural" based on your judgment. Q: Muscles burned off his precious supply of oxygen. A:
answer:Step 1: Identify the main clause in the sentence. - The main clause is "Muscles burned off his precious supply of oxygen." Step 2: Identify the subject of the main clause. - The subject of the main clause is "Muscles." Step 3: Determine if the subject is singular or plural. - The subject "Muscles" refers to more than one muscle, which makes it a plural noun. So, the answer is: A: Plural
question:W: I saw it and put it into the drawer when I came back last night. What was said before this conversation? A:
answer:As an AI, I cannot provide an exact conversation that occurred before the provided statement. However, I can create a hypothetical conversation that would lead to the given statement. Here's an example: A: Hey, have you seen my necklace? I can't find it anywhere. B: I searched around the living room but couldn't find it, did you wear it yesterday? A: Yes, and I remember taking it off when I got home. W: I saw it and put it into the drawer when I came back last night. In the hypothetical conversation, Person A was looking for their necklace, and Person B tried to help by searching the living room. Person A confirmed that they wore the necklace yesterday, and Person W chimed in with the information that they saw the necklace and placed it in a drawer the previous night.
question:In Greek mythology, the Hesperides ( ; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες , ] ) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West". They tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean. Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text? Atlas mountains have no rocks
answer:Okay, let me explain this to you like you're five years old. In a really old story from Greece, there are some magical ladies called Hesperides who live in a beautiful garden. This garden is far, far away, close to some big mountains called the Atlas mountains in North Africa. They live near a big, big ocean too. Now, about the sentence you asked me: The Atlas mountains have no rocks. Actually, it doesn't make sense after talking about the Hesperides and their garden. You see, mountains usually have lots of rocks. So saying that the Atlas mountains have no rocks is confusing and doesn't fit well with the story about the magical ladies and their garden.