Premise: Small villages with narrow cobbled streets sit among them, built inland to offer protection against pirate raids.

Hypothesis: Small villages are left completely at the mercy of the many pirates who can easily raid them.
Answer: no

Premise: In the background, a tuba started playing.

Hypothesis: They were in complete silence.
Answer: no

Premise: As the Church regained ground, it promoted a more triumphant image, epitomized by the works of Bernini, the most productive of them His grandiose Baroque altar in St. Peter's speaks rather effectively to the time.

Hypothesis: Bernini's works poked fun at the Church and their triumphant image.
Answer: no

Premise: Staff from BEA and OMB and the experts we consulted provided technical and clarifying comments, which we incorporated in this report where appropriate.

Hypothesis: We didn't put clarifying comments in.
Answer: no