Premise: Traditional Japanese theater, the tea ceremony, ikebana flower arrangement, and the old martial arts all came back into favor.

Hypothesis: Old martial arts and tea ceremonies became popular again.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: yes

Premise: i just want to get away from the phone ringing because it it really does annoy me and uh if i've had a lot of phone calls during the day when occasionally we have uh like this past week we have to do a lot of troubleshooting when the programmers have installed a new system and uh phone rings like crazy and you come home and the last thing you want to do is have to answer the phone and if it's some salesman that just makes it even that much worse and uh it just i get to where i i turn the answering machine on and just let it pick up the phone but now with this thing i'm participating in i kind of have to answer it because you never know if it's the switchboard or if it's uh you know somebody calling that you really don't want to talk on the phone

Hypothesis: The phone can be a source of irritation for me.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: yes

Premise: He glanced down at his body, noticing that it had somehow developed a healthy deep tan during the few hours of murderous labor the day before.

Hypothesis: He got a skin tan after working hard the day before.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
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Answer: yes

Premise: Germany, France, and Belgium all are running public debts at 3 percent or more, and Italy is at 7.4 percent.

Hypothesis: Italy is running public debt at greater than 7%.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: yes