[Q]: " I think the financial diplomacy here of the sort that we are engaged in is the surest course to get the result we want . "
" The financial diplomacy we 're engaged in is the surest course to get what we want , " Mr. Snow said .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes

[A]: yes

Question:
S1: The Securities and Exchange Commission has also initiated an informal probe of Coke .
S2: That federal investigation is separate from an informal inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission .
Are S1 and S2 the same?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer:
no

QUES: AAA spokesman Jerry Cheske said prices may have affected some plans , but cheap hotel deals mitigated the effect .

AAA spokesman Jerry Cheske said prices might have affected some plans , but cheap hotel deals made up for it .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
****
ANS: yes

[Q]: Earlier Thursday , PeopleSoft formally rejected the unsolicited bid from Oracle .

Thursday morning , PeopleSoft 's board rejected the Oracle takeover offer .

OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
****
[A]: yes

Problem: Wwo sentences:
" It 's a huge black eye , " said publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr . , whose family has controlled the paper since 1896 .
" It 's a huge black eye , " Arthur Sulzberger , the newspaper 's publisher , said of the scandal .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
- no
- yes

Answer: no

Here are two sentences:

At his sentencing , Avants had tubes in his nose and a portable oxygen tank beside him .

Avants , wearing a light brown jumpsuit , had tubes in his nose and a portable oxygen tank beside him .
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
yes