Question: Sentence A: Similarly, to address IRS's performance expectation for senior executives to develop and execute plans to achieve organizational goals, a senior executive who is the area director for compliance in New York has a performance expectation in his fiscal year 2002 individual performance plan to ensure that taxpayers affected by the events of September 11, 2001, are treated and audited according to their circumstances, and that the compliance guidelines and policy regarding affected taxpayers are adhered to.

Sentence B: A senior executive has a performance expectation for 2002.

If sentence A is true, how about sentence B?
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Answer: yes

Question: Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted.
Johnny has come back from overseas.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Problem: Here is a premise:
A drop in population revealed by the 2000 census is responsible for some of the funding cut, Mathews said.

Here is a hypothesis:
The population decrease was caused by people leaving to go westward.

Here are the options: OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: The effective implementation of the statutory framework to improve the performance, management, and accountability of the federal government, although important, is not an end in itself.

Sentence 2: The effective implementation is the only important thing.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: no

Question:
you uh have to learn you aren't given the chance to you know screw off all the time

Does it follow that "You have to learn you are not permitted to leave all the time."?
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer:
yes

Question:
Based on the premise "You deny having ordered a black beard from Parkson's on June 29th?", can we conclude that "You say you have never ordered anything from Parkson's?"? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
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Answer:
it is not possible to tell