Premise: I motioned for him to wait, then moved forward all the faster myself.

Hypothesis: I told him to go now.
Answer: no

Premise: On the north side, the church of Santa Maria del Popolo is important for Raphael's Chigi Chapel, exquisite frescoes by Pincuricchio, and, above all, two profoundly disturbing early 17th-century paintings by Caravaggio, the Conversion of St. Paul and Crucifixion of St. Peter, in the Cerasi Chapel left of the choir.

Hypothesis: The frescoes by Pincuricchio were constructed before the Chigi Chapel.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: The straw bags that Ibicencos and visitors hang over their shoulders for shopping or for carrying beach equipment are useful and inexpensive.

Hypothesis: The straw bags that people use are all made by hand.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: Four decades after it exploded, tourism on the islands overheated, leaving in its ashes a forest of massive, block-booked hotels and beach-hugging villa communities with few discernible ties to Spain'places lined with German bier halls, English fish n' chips joints, and low-rent bars and discos.

Hypothesis: Because of the tourism boom, the islands are strewn with artifacts of foreign culture that bear little relation to Spain.
Answer: yes