Student asked: Premise: "A player for the oklahoma sooners football team punts the ball during a game."
Hypothesis: "The football team was not alive."
Do we know that the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Teacher's response: Let's think. The information in the second sentence stating the football team is not alive is starkly contradicting the mention of player who punts the ball in the first sentence. The answer is no.


Student asked: Test for natural language inference.
Premise: "A big dog is biting a smaller dog on the leg."
Hypothesis: "Two dogs are in separate houses."
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Options:
- yes
- no
- it is not possible to tell
Teacher's response: Let's think. If the dogs are in separate houses then one of them is not biting the other. The answer is no.


Student asked: If "A man with dark hair and glasses baking bread." does that mean that "A man is working in a bakery."?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Teacher's response: Let's think. Baking bread does not mean the man is working in a bakery. The answer is it is not possible to tell.


Student asked: Premise: "Two fire dancers performing at night."
Hypothesis: "Two men toss flaming batons to each other as they move rhythmically to the beat of the drums."
Do we know that the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Teacher's response:
Let's think. Not all dancers are men. The fact that two fire dancers performing at night.doesn't imply that they toss flaming batons to each other and move rhythmically to the beat of the drums. The answer is it is not possible to tell.