Task: Quantify the valence intensity of the sentence, assigning it a value between 0 (highly negative) and 1 (highly positive), reflecting the emotional tone conveyed.
Sentence: Rather than try and come up with some sort of scenario, the USWA simply ignored what was going on in Youngstown, hoping that perhaps the problem would resolve itself, or at least not spread any further than it already had.
Intensity score: 