TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given two sentences. Indicate if the first sentence clearly entails the second sentence (i.e., one can conclude the 2nd sentence by reading the 1st one). Indicate your answer with '1' if the first sentence entails the second sentence, otherwise answer with '0'.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: JOHANNESBURG: Organizers of a peace conference that was to have been attended by five Nobel laureates in Johannesburg this week said Tuesday that they had canceled it after the South African government denied a visa to the Dalai Lama. Two of South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize laureates, the retired Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu and former President F.W. de Klerk, condemned the government for giving in to pressure from China to block the Tibetan spiritual leader's entry into the country and said they would refuse to participate in the conference if he was not there. The executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, also said he would stay away. Sentence 2: The Peace Conference in South Africa has been canceled, giving support to the Dalai Lama.

SOLUTION: 1

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Rescuers searched rough seas off the capital yesterday for survivors of a ferry collision that claimed at least 28 lives, as officials blamed crew incompetence for the accident. Sentence 2: 100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.

SOLUTION: 0

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: United States astronaut Sunita Williams, currently on board the International Space Station, has today broken the record for the longest unbroken space flight by a woman. At 5:47 a.m. UTC Williams passed the previous record of 188 days and four hours set by Shannon Lucid in 1996. This is not the only record Williams has broken. Earlier this year she set a record of 29 hours and 17 minutes for time spent by a woman on space walks. Sentence 2: Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.

SOLUTION:
0