instruction: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?

Sam made progress.

response: acceptable

instruction: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?

John wants Bill to leave.

response: acceptable

instruction: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?

Stephen persuaded it to be easy to please Kim.

response: unacceptable

instruction: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?

The boys fought with each other.

response:
acceptable