QUESTION: Premise: "A young baseball player winds up to throw the ball."
Hypothesis: "The player has the ball."
Do we know that the hypothesis entailed by the premise?

Let's solve it slowly: Throwing the ball is not possible unless the player has the ball.
The answer is yes.


QUESTION: Premise: "A young brunette grade-schooler wearing gray pants and a festive red t-shirt pulled over her long-sleeved print top is lying on her side on a brown couch with her head nestled into a brown pillow as she reads to kill a mockingbird."
Hypothesis: "The brunette is counting dollar bills in a space shuttle."
Do we know that the hypothesis entailed by the premise?

Let's solve it slowly: She could not be lying on a couch if she is in a space shuttle.
The answer is no.


QUESTION: If "A child does a handstand at the edge of a beach." does that mean that "A child is hiking in the mountains."?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Let's solve it slowly:
The child either does a handstand or is hiking. The child is either on the edge of a beach or in the mountains.
The answer is no.