Premise: His booted foot moved, but now rowel points flashed in the sun.

Hypothesis: His booted foot moved because he was startled.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: In this case, she, not an independent counsel, supervised the operation and the probes, and she settled for cursory answers.

Hypothesis: She had nothing to do with the proceedings, since an independent council oversaw everything.
Answer: no

Premise: The commission seems to be giving some credence to the claimed benefits of the merger, while hedging its bets on the competition issue by shoring up Office Max and seeding healthy retail conflict in scores of communities.

Hypothesis: The people seemed to support the merge, but they put bets on Office max pulling in some money.
Answer: yes

Premise: In the group A1/PSP, together with the home-room teacher it was decided that each lesson will begin with a humming of the soundtrack theme from the newest version of the 'Soldiers of Call of Duty in the Blitzkrieg Return to Castle Wolfenstein' game.

Hypothesis: The students were humming the theme to Jeopardy.
Answer: no