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SeaEval 8

test_201

Sentence1: The medical student accused of murdering an erotic masseuse he met on Craigslist is drowning in more than $100,000 in student loan debt and is so broke he can't afford to pay an attorney, according to court papers. Philip Markoff, a 23-year-old suspended Boston University medical school student, owes $130,000 in student loans and does not get money from his parents, leaving him to lean on a taxpayer-funded attorney for his defense, according to a court document in Boston Municipal Court that labels him indigent. Markoff graduated from the State University of New York-Albany and was a second-year medical student at BU. Sentence2: The medical student Philip Markoff was engaged.

(B) Not Entailment

test_202

Sentence1: Nokia, Texas Instruments and other leading makers of mobile phones have formally complained to Brussels that Qualcomm, the US mobile chipmaker, has unfairly used its patents on 3G technologies. Sentence2: Texas Instruments produces mobile phones.

(A) Entailment

test_203

Sentence1: BEIRUT, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Industry Minister and Christian leader Pierre Gemayel was shot dead on a street in the suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, al-Jazeera TV channel quoted the Lebanese Interior Ministry as saying. Sentence2: Pierre Gemayel was murdered on a street in the suburb of Beirut.

(B) Entailment

test_204

Sentence1: The drugs that slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease work best the earlier you administer them. Sentence2: Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.

(A) Entailment

test_205

Sentence1: Miller died Thursday night, of congestive heart failure, at his home in Roxbury, Conn., surrounded by his family, his assistant, Julia Bolus, said Friday. Sentence2: Miller died Thursday night, of heart failure, surrounded by family members.

(B) Entailment

test_206

Sentence1: Two British soldiers have been arrested in the southern Iraq city of Basra, sparking clashes outside a police station where they are being held. Sentence2: Two British tanks, sent to the police station where the soldiers are being held, were set alight in clashes.

(A) Not Entailment

test_207

Sentence1: A new report indicates that women's participation in decision-making in the country is minimal. Sentence2: Women are poorly represented in parliament.

(A) Not Entailment

test_208

Sentence1: Research workers of the German archaeological institute have discovered a mummy in permafrost at excavation work in Mongolia of approximately 2,500 years old. Sentence2: Altai ice maiden triggers major dispute.

(B) Not Entailment

test_209

Sentence1: Quebec woman and her mother accused of plotting to kill a four-year-old girl. Sentence2: Quebec woman murdered a four-year-old girl.

(B) Not Entailment

test_210

Sentence1: "The professoressa is a bit tired," an adviser to Rita Levi-Montalcini warned me as I prepared to interview Italy's Nobel prize-winning Life Senator on the eve of her 100th birthday. "Don't wear her out." I arrive to find the professoressa, as she is universally known, in the dress shop below her office in Rome, in an elegant black dress buttoned to the neck and a gold brooch of her own design, white hair immaculately coiffed, examining the rails of clothes with close and lively attention. Sentence2: Rita Levi-Montalcini is a global expert on the brain.

(B) Not Entailment

test_211

Sentence1: As spacecraft commander for Apollo XI, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." With these historic words, man's dream of the ages was fulfilled. Sentence2: Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.

(B) Entailment

test_212

Sentence1: FMLN reports to our people, and to the people of the world, that the massacre against the Salvadoran Workers National Union Federation [Fenastras] was carried out by Colonel Elena Fuente, as the head of the morbid death squad of the army's 1st Infantry Brigade, in response to our military attack on the army staff. Sentence2: Fenastras was attacked by FMLN.

(B) Not Entailment

test_213

Sentence1: A senior coalition official in Iraq said the body, which was found by U.S. military police west of Baghdad, appeared to have been thrown from a vehicle. Sentence2: A body has been found by U. S. military police.

(A) Entailment

test_214

Sentence1: Andreessen, who helped define the Internet revolution as part of team that created the first Internet browser (Mosaic) and his co-founding Netscape, told a packed hall at the San Francisco Marriott hotel Thursday that he is "extremely committed" to his startup Loudcloud. Sentence2: The Internet browser Mosaic was created at the San Francisco Marriott hotel.

(B) Not Entailment

test_215

Sentence1: Hepburn's platinum, diamond and sapphire brooch had been estimated to fetch just $20,000, but sold for $120,000, six times its estimated price. Sentence2: Hepburn's diamond and sapphire brooch fetched $120,000.

(A) Entailment

test_216

Sentence1: Wilson has, after all, produced all three Offspring albums, including "Smash," the one that has astonished everybody by selling 1 million copies in four months, establishing the heretofore unknown group as the leader, with Green Day, of an unprecedented wave of commercial success for punk. Sentence2: "Smash" is the title of the third album of the Offspring.

(B) Not Entailment

test_217

Sentence1: As regards the headquarters building, the Swiss are stipulating that they would transfer it to the WTO for a value of about 51 million swiss franks. Sentence2: The WTO headquarters are in Switzerland.

(A) Not Entailment

test_218

Sentence1: Despite Bjork making her first live performance in two years, the crowd of 10,000 people was only half of what the hall in the Tokyo suburb of Makuhari could hold. Sentence2: 10,000 people live in Tokyo.

(B) Not Entailment

test_219

Sentence1: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has cleared the way for lesbian and gay couples in the state to marry, ruling that government attorneys "failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason" to deny them the right. Sentence2: U.S. Supreme Court in favor of same-sex marriage

(B) Entailment

test_220

Sentence1: Tropical Storm Irene on August 11, 2005 at 16:15 UTC. Tropical Storm Irene will increase in strength over the next several days, possibly developing into a hurricane that will hit the east coast of the United States, said the National Hurricane Center of Miami, Florida in a report today. Irene was located approximately 975 kilometers south-southeast of Bermuda at 16:00 UTC today. Forecasters say that the storm is now moving in a west- northwest direction with top sustained winds of 40 miles per hour. Sentence2: A storm called Irene is going to approach the east coast of the US.

(B) Entailment

test_221

Sentence1: Amazon shares fell nearly 4 percent following the results as the company said operating income would drop as much as 42 percent in the second quarter. Sentence2: Shares of Amazon fell 4 percent.

(B) Not Entailment

test_222

Sentence1: According to Becky Gibbons of New York State Police and Chris Collins County Executive in Erie County, New York, the total number of fatalities is 50, including 45 passengers, four crew members and a person on the ground, while a woman and daughter on the ground were injured, near the edge of farmland, about seven miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Sentence2: A daily commuter flight crashed in Buffalo.

(B) Not Entailment

test_223

Sentence1: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, seniors at the suburban Denver school, detonated homemade bombs and opened fire with shotguns, a rifle and a semiautomatic handgun on April 20, 1999. They killed a teacher and 12 students and wounded 23 others before committing suicide. The massacre shocked the country like no other. It was the worst school assault in American history at that time, and it came in the wake of a half-dozen others. It played out on live television, watched by millions. And it represented the violent destruction of a cherished American idea: that schools in the suburbs and the countryside were havens of peace and safety. Sentence2: 13 persons were killed by two students in 1999.

(B) Entailment

test_224

Sentence1: Deceased U.S. soldiers and their effects were evacuated to Japan and then shipped home in refrigerated containers for interment in the U.S. Sentence2: The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.

(A) Not Entailment

test_225

Sentence1: In clashes between Israeli forces and gunmen, one Palestinian was killed and 10 wounded, hospital officials said. Sentence2: A Palestinian was killed and other people were wounded.

(A) Entailment

test_226

Sentence1: Teenage sensation Wayne Rooney powered England into the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 with two goals in Monday's 4-2 defeat of Croatia and they were joined in the last eight by champions France who beat Switzerland 3-1. Sentence2: France participates in Euro 2004.

(A) Entailment

test_227

Sentence1: NIH's FY05 budget request of $28.8 billion includes $2 billion for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a 3.4-percent increase, and $1.1 billion for the National Center for Research Resources, and a 7.2-percent decrease from FY04 levels. Sentence2: A request was reduced to $1.1 billion

(A) Not Entailment

test_228

Sentence1: The beleaguered Euro-Disney theme park outside Paris is doing so poorly it might have to close unless it gets help soon from its lenders, the chairman of Walt Disney Co. said in an interview published Friday. Sentence2: Euro-Disney is a theme park outside Paris.

(A) Entailment

test_229

Sentence1: Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, suffered a devastating drought and famine in 1974, which killed 1.5 million people. While trying to help starving villagers, he met a 21-year-old woman named Sufia Begum, who was burdened by a tiny yet crushing debt, Yunus recalled in his autobiography, "Banker to the Poor." Sentence2: 1.5 million people were killed during the drought and famine devastation in 1974 in Bangladesh.

(B) Entailment

test_230

Sentence1: Russian Public Television head Vladislav Listyev is shot in the heart by an unknown gunman outside his Moscow home. The attack is linked to opponents of an advertising ban he had proposed for the television channel. Sentence2: Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.

(A) Entailment

test_231

Sentence1: In New York, Nymex light crude oil for July delivery hit $42.38 per barrel on Tuesday Sentence2: Crude oil futures surged to an all-time high in New York Tuesday, at 42 dollars a barrel.

(B) Not Entailment

test_232

Sentence1: The Croatian intent is even more problematic because the border between Slovenian and Croatian territorial waters has not yet been established. The dispute about this border began in 1991 when both countries became independent. Sentence2: There is a territorial waters dispute.

(B) Entailment

test_233

Sentence1: Recent satellite pictures of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming from 2004 through 2006 are showing that an ancient volcano is starting to rise once again. Molten rock is currently pushing up the remains of the volcano's caldera, which sits over the top of Yellowstone lake, but scientists are stressing that there is no immediate threat of an eruption or explosion. The molten rock field is estimated to be the size of the city of Los Angeles, California. Sentence2: There is a volcano in Yellowstone.

(A) Entailment

test_234

Sentence1: Senator Dick Lugar, the ranking Republican member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, spoke in favor of the bill, saying that the United States' embargo on Cuba had "failed to achieve its stated purpose of bringing democracy to the Cuban people." Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, a Democrat and a second generation Cuban-American, opposes the bill, arguing that free travel by Europeans, Canadians and the citizens of other Latin American countries has not helped to democratize the island nation. "The regime has not opened up," said Sen. Menendez. "On the contrary, it has used resources to become more oppressive." Sentence2: Dick Lugar is a member of the Cuban-American community.

(A) Not Entailment

test_235

Sentence1: Most commercial logwood is grown in Honduras. Sentence2: Plants are grown in water or in substances other than soil.

(B) Not Entailment

test_236

Sentence1: Primary prevention of Alzheimer's disease is not possible at present. Sentence2: Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.

(B) Not Entailment

test_237

Sentence1: Known as "heap leach" mining, the method has become popular in the last decade because it enables microscopic bits of gold to be economically extracted from low-grade ore. Sentence2: The mining industry uses a method known as heap leaching.

(A) Entailment

test_238

Sentence1: Democrat members of the Ways and Means Committee, where tax bills are written and advanced, do not have strong small business voting records. Sentence2: Democrat members had strong small business voting records.

(B) Not Entailment

test_239

Sentence1: A closely divided U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday its 2002 ruling that juries and not judges must impose a death sentence applies only to future cases, a decision that may affect more than 100 death row inmates. Sentence2: The Supreme Court decided that only judges can impose the death sentence.

(A) Not Entailment

test_240

Sentence1: While Bush was in the air, the White House was evacuated, with many employees running away from the premises on orders from Secret Service agents. Sentence2: The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.

(B) Not Entailment

test_241

Sentence1: The San Diego Padres ace, Jake Peavy, was hurt in an 8-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. Sentence2: The San Diego Padres won the game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

(A) Not Entailment

test_242

Sentence1: Coextensive with the metropolitan district of Jakarta Raya, it lies at the mouth of the Ciliwung ( Liwung River ) on the northwest coast of Java. Sentence2: Jakarta lies at the mouth of the Ciliwung ( Liwung River ) on the northwest coast of the island of Java.

(B) Entailment

test_243

Sentence1: Philadelphia is considered the birthplace of the United States of America, where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written and signed in the city's Independence Hall. Sentence2: The US Declaration of Independence is located in Philadelphia.

(A) Not Entailment

test_244

Sentence1: The international humanitarian aid organization, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), continues to treat victims of violence in all locations where it is present in Darfur. Sentence2: Doctors Without Borders is an international aid organization.

(B) Entailment

test_245

Sentence1: The memo, written by Marc Allen Connelly (who was general counsel to the funeral services commission at the time) and sent to Dick McNeil (the Bush-appointed chairman of the funeral commission), stated that Connelly "received information" from Texas state officials that two of the funeral commissioners worked for SCI. Sentence2: Marc Allen Connelly worked for SCI.

(B) Not Entailment

test_246

Sentence1: Take consumer products giant Procter and Gamble. Even with a $1.8 billion Research and Development budget, it still manages 500 active partnerships each year, many of them with small companies. Sentence2: Procter and Gamble spends $1.8 billion for Research and Development.

(A) Entailment

test_247

Sentence1: This is a kind of homework from last year's Halifax Summit. Discussions have taken place on how to rationalize and coordinate the various activities of the international organizations. Sentence2: Financial reforms have been proposed at the G7 summit in Halifax.

(B) Not Entailment

test_248

Sentence1: Aeschylus was born in 525 BC, and spent his youth as a soldier in the Athenian army. He wrote The Persians when he was 53 years old, but it is his earliest surviving work. Sentence2: "The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.

(B) Entailment

test_249

Sentence1: With South Carolina being Jesse Jackson's home state, there was a very strong incentive in the black community. Sentence2: Jesse Jackson was born in South Carolina.

(B) Entailment

test_250

Sentence1: Evans Paul, the pro-Aristide mayor of Port-au-Prince, said he had been told that the money will go to American lobbyists, politicians and journalists to campaign against the return of Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president Sentence2: Evans Paul is the mayor of Port-au-Prince.

(B) Entailment

test_251

Sentence1: Ssangyong Motor was taken over by creditors after it collapsed under heavy debts during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Sentence2: Asian financial crisis takes over Ssangyong Motor

(B) Not Entailment

test_252

Sentence1: A plane crashed in North Carolina last year and most of the Blink-182 group was in there. The only survivors of the crash were DJ AM and musical partner Travis Barker. Less lucky, "Lil" Chris Baker, Barker's close friend and assistant, the Blink-182 drummer's bodyguard, Charles "Che" Still, the pilot and co-pilot died. Both AM and Barker suffered many injures, bad burns and they needed to stay in hospital for several weeks. Now AM asks $20 million in compensation for injuries he suffered. He lawsuits against plane maker Learjet and wants to gain $10 million for medical damages, lost earnings and profit and the same amount for mental and physical suffering. Sentence2: Travis Barker belongs to a band.

(B) Entailment

test_253

Sentence1: Without a natural greenhouse effect, the temperature of the Earth would be about zero degrees F (-18C) instead of its present 57F (14C). Sentence2: Greenhouse effect changes global climate.

(A) Entailment

test_254

Sentence1: But Huawei says that expansion has not been easy - obtaining visas for its Chinese engineers to work on long-term projects in India being a particular challenge. Sentence2: Chinese engineers working on long-term projects in India can easily obtain visas.

(A) Not Entailment

test_255

Sentence1: The Federal Bureau of Investigation started an independent probe of the circumstances shortly after the White House made plain that President Bill Clinton considered industrial espionage a particular threat to US economic interests. Sentence2: A US probe of the investigation started at the instigation of the Commerce Department.

(B) Not Entailment

test_256

Sentence1: The Disneyland of Europe is located 20 miles east of Paris. Euro Disney is a huge complex with hotels, restaurants, shops and a nearby golf course apart from the actual theme park. It provides a much better experience than its American cousin thanks to the marvels of modern engineering. Sentence2: Euro-Disney is an Entertainment Park.

(A) Entailment

test_257

Sentence1: In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until completely blended and frothy. Sentence2: In a bowl, whisk together the egg, sugar and vanilla until light in color.

(A) Not Entailment

test_258

Sentence1: Ren and Stimpy. Bugs Bunny. Philip J. Fry and Professor Hubert Farnsworth on Futurama. Sparx. Bi-Polar Bear. Popeye the Sailor Man. Woody Woodpecker. You may not think you have ever heard Billy West, but chances are on a television program, a movie, a commercial, or as Howard Stern's voice guru in the 1990's, you have heard him. West's talent for creating personalities by twisting his voice has made him one of a handful of voice actors - Hank Azaria and the late Mel Blanc come to mind - who have achieved celebrity for their talent. Indeed, West is one of the few voice actors who can impersonate Blanc in his prime, including characterizations of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and other characters from Warner Bros. cartoons. Sentence2: Bugs Bunny is owned by Warner Bros.

(B) Entailment

test_259

Sentence1: Toshiba, with NEC Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., has been promoting a technology called HD DVD while Sony, along with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (maker of Panasonic brand products), has been pushing for Blu-ray. Sentence2: Panasonic brand products are produced by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

(B) Not Entailment

test_260

Sentence1: Kevin Whitaker, who heads the Cuban affairs office at the Department of State, spoke with Lazo on two occasions about the effort to give his sons visas. Sentence2: Kevin Whitaker is a manager of the Department of State.

(B) Entailment

test_261

Sentence1: The investigation involving Mr Lopez and three associates are primarily concerned with suspicions of the systematic theft of secrets. Sentence2: Seven other GM executives left with Lopez.

(B) Not Entailment

test_262

Sentence1: Napkins, invitations and plain old paper cost more than they did a month ago. Sentence2: The cost of paper is rising.

(B) Entailment

test_263

Sentence1: As a result of these weaknesses, computer systems and the operations that rely on the systems were highly vulnerable to tampering, disruption, and misuse from both internal and external sources. Sentence2: Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.

(B) Not Entailment

test_264

Sentence1: Released in 1995, Tyson returned to boxing, winning the World Boxing Council title in 1996. The same year, however, he lost to Evander Holyfield, and in a 1997 rematch bit Holyfield's ear, for which he was temporarily banned from boxing. Sentence2: In 1996 Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.

(A) Not Entailment

test_265

Sentence1: Some of the buildings around the city square in the Kota also date from colonial times, including the old city hall ( 1710 ), which has been restored and now serves as the municipal museum. Sentence2: The city hall is a museum now.

(A) Entailment

test_266

Sentence1: The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana, with 270,000 inhabitants. Sentence2: Slovenia has 270,000 inhabitants.

(A) Not Entailment

test_267

Sentence1: Yachtsman Melvyn Percy became so fed up with the standard of service when preparing his boat for the 3000-mile Atlantic crossing that he decided to set up his own company on the Clyde to provide Scots sailors with professional advice and practical assistance. Minerva Rigging, based at Kip Marina just south of Gourock, now employs five full-time staff and is the Scottish agent for Kemp, one of Europe's leading yacht spar and mast manufacturers. Sentence2: Melvyn Percy set up Minerva Rigging at Kip Marina.

(B) Entailment

test_268

Sentence1: One of the dead was a child, passing by with his parents, said Iqrar Abbasi, a doctor at Civil Hospital Karachi. Sentence2: A doctor was killed by his parents.

(B) Not Entailment

test_269

Sentence1: Sunday's earthquake was felt in the southern Indian city of Madras on the mainland, as well as other parts of south India. The Naval meteorological office in Port Blair said it was the second biggest aftershock after the Dec. 26 earthquake. Sentence2: The city of Madras is located in Southern India.

(B) Entailment

test_270

Sentence1: Thailand's official religion is Buddhism which claims the allegiance of most Thai people. Their cultural identity seems almost inseparably intertwined with Buddhist traditions. The people practice folk Buddhism which includes and elaborate system of spirit worship. Sentence2: The official religion of Thailand is Theravada Buddhism.

(A) Not Entailment

test_271

Sentence1: It appears that the super-conducting maglev system is technically ready to be used commercially as a very high-speed, large-capacity transportation system. Sentence2: Maglev is commercially used.

(A) Not Entailment

test_272

Sentence1: The Amish community in Pennsylvania, which numbers about 55,000, lives an agrarian lifestyle, shunning technological advances like electricity and automobiles. And many say their insular lifestyle gives them a sense that they are protected from the violence of American society. But as residents gathered near the school, some wearing traditional garb and arriving in horse-drawn buggies, they said that sense of safety had been shattered. "If someone snaps and wants to do something stupid, there's no distance that's going to stop them," said Jake King, 56, an Amish lantern maker who knew several families whose children had been shot. Sentence2: Pennsylvania has the biggest Amish community in the U.S.

(A) Not Entailment

test_273

Sentence1: Following the successful bid to bring the 2010 Ryder Cup to Wales, the Wales Tourist Board has wasted little time in commissioning work to ensure that the benefits accruing from the event are felt throughout the country. Sentence2: Wales to host 2010 Ryder Cup.

(A) Entailment

test_274

Sentence1: Steve Jobs was attacked by Sculley and other Apple executives for not delivering enough hot new products and resigned from the company a few weeks later. Sentence2: Steve Jobs worked for Apple.

(A) Entailment

test_275

Sentence1: When Albright was the US ambassador to the United Nations, Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes" asked her about the sanctions and the deaths of Iraqi children. Albright said it was America's responsibility to make sure the Gulf War did not have to be fought again. Sentence2: Albright said that to punish Saddam Hussein, the deaths of those children were "worth it."

(B) Not Entailment

test_276

Sentence1: The Qin (from which the name China is derived) established the approximate boundaries and basic administrative system that all subsequent dynasties were to follow. Sentence2: Qin Shi Huang was the first Chinese Emperor.

(A) Not Entailment

test_277

Sentence1: The official visit of the Argentine minister marks a further step in the normalisation of UK-Argentine relations. Sentence2: Relations between Argentina and Great Britain are growing more cooperative.

(A) Not Entailment