TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to determine if the two sentences clearly agree/disagree with each other, or if this can't be determined. Indicate your answer as yes or no respectively.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The choir and chancel do not stand on the island's granite core but on a platform formed by three crypts, with the massive columns of the Crypte des Groseiliers doing most of the work. Sentence 2: Nothing ever stands on the island's granite core.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The government controls the number of allowances that are distributed and reduces them over time. Sentence 2: The government reduces the number of allowances over time. 

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: John N. Erlenborn, president of the Legal Services Corp., the entity that doles out federal money for legal aid, will announce at the conference that Illinois will suffer seven-figure funding cuts next year because of newly released census figures. Sentence 2: Illinois is facing big budget increases.

SOLUTION:
yes