QUESTION: Premise: "A fashionably dressed woman holding a record in a frame at a used bookstore."
Hypothesis: "A woman holding a rare record."
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

SOLUTION: Let's solve this gradually. Just because a record is framed does not mean it is rare.
Answer is it is not possible to tell.


QUESTION: Given the sentence "A basketball player in a blue jersey holds the ball high." can we conclude that "A basket ball player holds the ball high in the air."?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

SOLUTION: Let's solve this gradually. Holding the ball high in something other than air would require that the basketball court be either underwater or on a different planet.
Answer is yes.


QUESTION: Test for natural language inference.
Premise: "Two children playing on rocks."
Hypothesis: "Two children are sitting on rocks and playing cards."
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Options:
- yes
- no
- it is not possible to tell

SOLUTION: Let's solve this gradually. We are told that children are playing on rocks but not that there are sitting on them or playing cards.
Answer is it is not possible to tell.


QUESTION: Can we conclude from "A man with a purple hat." that "Two drumsticks in hand sitting next to a cymbal."?
Options:
- yes
- no
- it is not possible to tell

SOLUTION:
Let's solve this gradually. A man with drumsticks in hand is playing in a band.
Answer is it is not possible to tell.