Question: Sentence A: His policy succeeded for a time, but following his abdication in a.d. 305, the empire continued to weaken, harassed by invaders and troubled by internal strife.

Sentence B: His policies worked but the empire was still very troubled.

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

Answer: yes

Question: um by and large no but but they're big fun
Mostly not, but they're lots of fun.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Answer: yes

Problem: Here is a premise:
Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' lax and digressive verses serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.

Here is a hypothesis:
Plath wrote poetry.

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

Answer: yes

Sentence 1: Winesburg, Ohio, like cyberspace, was a perfectly efficient information market.

Sentence 2: Winesburg, Ohio is like cyberspace.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Question:
they killed i'm in Dallas

Does it follow that "I moved to Dallas after those people were killed. "?
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- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer:
it is not possible to tell

Question:
Based on the premise "it's a fantastic machine if you've got to have IBM compatibility they've got a card you can plug in and you can run IBM software but the machine is so powerful i don't need it", can we conclude that "You need a disc to run IBM software."? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
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Answer:
no