Premise: This handsome hotel, opened about a decade ago near the Royal Palace, occupies a magnificent palace and converted monastery, both meticulously renovated.

Hypothesis: This hotel opened about a decade ago near the Royal Palace and occupies both a monastery and palace which have been renovated.
Answer: yes

Premise: In this display, policy changes are allocated equally between revenue reductions and spending increases.

Hypothesis: Spending increases this means hiring more workers.
Answer: no

Premise: Its acropolis was capped with magnificent buildings, and it boasted a great library of over 200,000 volumes (the Pergamenes are credited with the invention of parchment).

Hypothesis: The great library had over 3 floors to store the 200,000 volumes.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: There was an enormous sphere of thin crystal to represent the sky.

Hypothesis: The crystal was very thick and covered a small surface.
Answer: no