input question: Overall , students are most likely to be taught by a 15-year veteran with a growing workload and slightly eroding interest in staying in teaching , the work-force portrait shows .
The average teacher is a 15-year veteran with a growing workload and slightly eroding interest in staying in teaching , the work force portrait shows .

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output answer: yes

[Q]: The three priests were careful to go through church channels first as they exercised their rights under canon law .
The priests went through church channels first , exercising their rights under canon law .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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[A]: yes

Question:
S1: " If the other rating agencies also downgrade us ..
S2: The two other national rating agencies are waiting to take action .
Are S1 and S2 the same?
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Answer:
no

QUES: A prosecutor says Dorchester County parents were responsible for the death of their a 6-year-old autistic son , whose body was found in a pond near the family home .

St George A prosecutor says a Dorchester County couple was responsible for the death of their 6-year-old autistic son whose body was found in a pond near the family home .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: yes

[Q]: " The bolt catcher is not as robust as it is supposed to be , " the board 's chairman , retired Adm. Hal Gehman , said .

" The bolt catcher is not as robust " as it should be , said retired Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman Jr . , the board chairman .

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[A]: yes

[Q]: The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index < .IXIC > added 1.92 points , or 0.12 percent , at 1,647.94 .

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC dipped 0.08 of a point to 1,646 .

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[A]:
no