Instructions

The two texts you are presented with are from the Encyclopedia Britannica. They both describe the same city, but one is targeted for children (Text C) and the other for adults (Text A). As you will see, they overlap in the information they present. We ask you to match the sentences (one from each text) that convey the same information.

You should consider two sentences to convey the same information if they share at least one "clause". For instance, all of the following sentence pairs matched (the common clause is underlined here so that you understand why the sentences should be matched; in your annotation you simply have to mark sentences that match, not to identify the matching clause(s)):

• "People have lived in the Lima area for thousands of years."
  "The area around Lima has been inhabited for thousands of years."

• "The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city of Lima in 1535."
  "The Spanish city of Lima was founded by Pizarro on January 6, 1535, which, being Epiphany, prompted the name Ciudad de los Reyes ('City of Kings')."

• "It soon became Spain's main port in the region, and it was made the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru."
  "Although the name never stuck, Lima soon became the capital of the new viceroyalty of Peru, chosen over the old Inca capital of Cuzco to the southeast because the coastal location facilitated communication with Spain."

The following sentence pairs do not share any clause (even though they might share words) and, therefore, should not be matched:

• "The city is also the country's leading port and center of commerce."
  "And yet, as with so much of the city, the port facilities are old and inefficient."

• "Adding to the complexity of daily living is a high rate of inflation, which hampers efforts to improve conditions."
  "Many industries are also located in Buenos Aires."
  

One sentence can match several sentences, for instance:

• "On either side of it are twin Victorian buildings, built in the late 19th century."
  "Twin Victorian buildings , which were constructed on either side of Leinster House in the 1880s, contain the National Library and National Museum of Ireland."

  "They house the National Library and National Museum of Ireland."
  "Twin Victorian buildings, which were constructed on either side of Leinster House in the 1880s, contain the National Library and National Museum of Ireland."