1st run: Find actions and provide the action verb as written in the sentence Overview -------------- Read the provided sentence which occurred in a news story. Find all actions written in the sentence which actually happen or happened. For each action, provide the action verb as written in the sentence. We Provide ---------------- * One sentence Process ---------- * Read the sentence. * Look for actions which happen or happened indeed. * Enter the action verbs of all detected actions as written in the sentence (without space at the end). For example: "acquired" or "stating". Tips and Examples ------------------------- * An action is something which happened in real world and which another person could observe or approve on.

Example: "Apple Inc. bought Beats Electronics for $3 billion." is an action which happened. The action verb is "bought".

Verbs such as "to plan", "to anticipate", and "to expect" do not express observable actions itself, so they should not be extracted. The same holds for verbs such as "to start" and "to continue". * Actions are not states of things.

Example: "Beats makes the popular Beats headphones." is no action, since it lasts for an unspecified/indefinite period of time and it is nothing what happens surprisingly. Hence, we do not extract "makes" here. Also verbs such as "feel", "think" and "be happy" describe states (not observable by other persons) and not an action. * There can be several actions in one sentence, especially in long sentences. * If several sentences are presented, you must consider all of them. * There might be sentences which contain no actual action at all. In this case nothing needs to be extracted. * Action verbs should be extracted, but no nouns or adjectives. * Action might include statements which are actions or states and which happen/happened in real world or not. They need to be considered separately.

Example: In the sentence

"Soon after Apple confirmed it was buying Beats Electronics for $3 billion Wednesday, CEO Tim Cook wrote a note to his employees."

we can detect two actions: the action that Apple confirmed its acquisition -- with the action verb "confirmed" -- and the action that Tim Cook wrote a note -- with action verb "wrote".
The actual acquisition did not necessarily happen. Hence, it is not an action we look for. * The action verb is mostly one single word. Auxiliary verbs which occur in addition to the actual verb such as "be", "are", "is", "must" do not have to be extracted.
Example:

"Apple today announced it has agreed to acquire the streaming music service Beats Music."

Here the action verbs are "announced" and "agreed" (not "has agreed"). * Participle adjectives should not be considered.
Example: In

"Valuentum Investors sometimes grow fond of fallen angels."

"fallen" only describes the "angels", no actual action of the sentence. Further Examples ---------------------- * "McDonald's plans to return $18 billion and $20 billion to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends from 2014 to 2016."

contains only a plan, but no happening or happened action. * "Mobile analytics firm App Annie announced that it acquired competitor Distimo in a transaction that the company says will help develop 'the most advanced platform for analyzing the mobile app ecosystem.'"

has the action verbs "announced", "acquired", and "says", but not "help"/"develop", since this cannot be guaranteed to have happened. * "The fascinating book was a thrilling read. "

contains no action: "was" describes no action, "thrilling" is a participial adjective only describing "read". Summary ------------- In this task we're detecting actions which are described in a news sentence and which happened in real world. For each detected action, the action verb as written in the sentence is entered in a text box. Thank You! --------------- Thank you for your hard work on this task!