[Q] Premise: "A boy is sitting on an escalator holding a phone."
Hypothesis: "There is a phone near the boy."
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
[A] In order to be holding the phone one has to be near the phone.
The answer is yes.

[Q] Test for natural language inference.
Premise: "There is a large gathering of people."
Hypothesis: "With two men in white shirts and one with a flag draped over him in the front and a man in a black shirt on a cellphone next to them."
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Options:
- yes
- no
- it is not possible to tell
[A] Several people are buying supplies in the camping store near the state park.
The answer is no.

[Q] Given the sentence "Ice hockey players battling for the puck around the goalie." can we conclude that "Ice hockey players are playing for the puck."?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
[A] Battling for the puck is the same as playing for the puck.
The answer is yes.