Premise: 'Well,' Lincoln shrugged, 'I am supposed to kill you on sight.

Hypothesis: He told me what he was instructed to do.
Answer: yes

Premise: Take Samuel Cartwright, for instance, who in 1851 coined two ingenious new diagnoses to be applied to drapetomania , or running away (recommended whipping), and dysaesthesia aethiopis , whose symptoms were sloth and a tendency to break things (recommended whipping).

Hypothesis: In 1851, Samuel Cartwright coined two ingenious new diagnoses to be applied to drapetomania, or running away, and dysaesthesia aethiopis, whose one of the symptoms was the tendency to break things.
Answer: yes

Premise: The Washington-based Legal Services Corp. wants the buildings transferred to the S.C.

Hypothesis: If it were up to the Legal Services Corp out of Washington, the buildings would be moved to the S.C.
Answer: yes

Premise: That one had a dragon's head for the hammer.

Hypothesis: The dragon's head was on the handle.
Answer: no