premise
stringlengths 10
639
| hypothesis
stringlengths 7
461
| label
stringclasses 3
values |
|---|---|---|
One possibility is that these ads will develop into a new form of micro-pandering, but the process will be interesting no matter where it leads. | There is more than on way this process can play out. | entailment |
The pierced generation may simply be acknowledging the deadliness of the times we live in, suggestive as they are of earlier epochs in human history. | The pierced generation acknowledging these shifting times is an optimism that can be channeled into goodness. | neutral |
Three kinds of theories of history have been prominent in recent discussion--ending theories, wave theories, and cycle theories. | Cycle theory focuses on the cyclical nature of history. | neutral |
If NBC wanted to clone its sitcoms, you think it could aim higher than Suddenly Susan and The Naked Truth , says USA Today 's Matt Roush. | NBC is not in need of viewers. | contradiction |
More importantly, it reminds us that racial identity is utterly malleable--and that racial essence is utterly artificial. | Certains races can be more successful than others. | contradiction |
No adult ever played with Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers. | Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers weren't played with by adults. | entailment |
The most controversial part of Finkelstein's book, though, is the last chapter, in which he sets out to explain why the Goldhagen book was such a big deal. | The most talked about part of Finkelstein's book is in the last chapter. | entailment |
I think Michael Jordan is beginning to get a bit frustrated with his new cohorts in the Washington Wizards front office. | Michael Jordan is angry with the cohorts in the Washington Wizards office. | entailment |
Diseases contracted in early infancy can have a lifetime impact on health--not necessarily a big one, but an impact nevertheless. | Diseases can be easily prevented if the infant is constantly in a sterile environment. | neutral |
A book-review editor at Science says she was pressured to retire this past summer after she published a negative review of a book that claimed to defend science from postmodern critiques. | Science was justified in suggesting that the editor should retire after she published her review. | neutral |
Why, it's their Chineseness, of course. | No one referenced hails from Asia. | contradiction |
The new regimens are themselves feasible (at costs from pennies to $60 per patient, they seem to be). | The regimens are affordable, with prices ranging from a few cents to 60 dollars. | entailment |
The development of Microsoft FashionSense 2.0 is long overdue, and I for one would like to offer my services as a volunteer beta tester. | Microsoft Fashionsense 2.0 needs a serious update, I would be willing to be a tester of the program. | entailment |
The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime. | The bottle had a suggestion. | entailment |
The economics are easy enough to understand, lacking major stars, these movies are inexpensive to make and draw the ideal teens who are capable of seeing Titanic 17 times. | The movies have won lots of awards. | contradiction |
How do Mary Matalin and James Carville do it? | Someone clearly understand the relationship between Matalin and Carville. | contradiction |
Some House Republicans, including DeLay, have fired back at Bush, accusing him of betraying them, meddling in their business, and distorting their ideas. | Bush has gotten criticism from his own party. | entailment |
If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean | L.L.Bean is not a seasonal retailer. | contradiction |
Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money. | A sure thing doesn't always attract the most original and well though-out ideas. | entailment |
The final rooms feel like classrooms, with lessons hammered home. | Lessons are learned in classrooms. | entailment |
Your wanderings on the Web leave more footprints than you may realize. | You track more footprints on the internet than you may realize. | entailment |
Monica, ever imaginative, bragged about the dress to Linda Tripp even though it was just an ordinary dress. | Monica overstated the value of the dress. | neutral |
Even if the water tastes pure and delicious, you cannot enjoy it as much as you should. | You'll completely enjoy it. | contradiction |
The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right. | Bauer is a political candidate who has garnered support from the religious right. | entailment |
The decline in prices to their fundamental level may be gradual, and even a crash may not turn into a larger economic disaster. | Many investors are taking advantage of the decline In prices. | neutral |
But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands. | If you practice self-control you will pass on a fortune to your future self. | entailment |
To give up on River Rouge in order to build your brand is one thing. | The author posits the idea that one might have to give up River Road in order to develop themselves as a brand. | entailment |
As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cezanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : Now I am the last survivor of the group, he sighed. | He was the last Impressionist left alive. | entailment |
But there are several pharmacological and social differences that reduce the relevance of rat research to social policy. | There are differences, both pharmacologically and socially, that reduce rat research's relevance to policy. | entailment |
Both newsweeklies celebrate cities. | One of the cities highlighted in the newsweeklies is Chicago. | neutral |
He says this will make our system the best. | No other systems even come close to being best. | neutral |
Mambo Italiano, and my personal favorite, Oooh, Bang, Jiggily Jang. | This person cannot stand listening to Oooh, Bang, Jiggily Jang. | contradiction |
News accounts agree that Arafat has finally shed his image as a terrorist and is now being honored by the White House not only as a virtual head of state but as the indispensable player in the peace process. | The news covered the story in a one hour special. | neutral |
In its recent obituary of a legendary cold war spy, the NYT suggested that he was the conduit via which the U.S. arranged for Vietnamese generals to assassinate South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. | There is not believed to be to have been any plot to have killed Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. | contradiction |
Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment. | the amendment was about a balanced budget. | entailment |
The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals. | The show vainly leads each week with a feeble minded story designed to appeal to radical anarchists. | contradiction |
Kaaterskill Falls ,by Allegra Goodman (Dial Press). | Allegra Goodman works for the Dial Press. | entailment |
All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt. | It is possible to both earn and lose points. | entailment |
From the podium, Dunn and Rice, two of the committee's three front women, implored Bush's wife and daughters to endure the campaign's trial by fire. | The committee had more women than men. | neutral |
They are so dissimilar that they cannot contradict one another. | The differences are so vast their subjects cannot go against each other. | entailment |
Without seeing his work all the way through, it's hard for me to say whether Borchardt has talent, but he might not be such a stumblebum after all. | I am unsure about my opinion on Borchardt's skills. | entailment |
If you want to know what a real myth is, don't bother with synergy. | The author had a poor business experience when synergy was a focus. | neutral |
The benefits of managed care are unremarkable and undramatic (lower premiums, more preventive care). | the benefits of managed care are almost not worth noting. | entailment |
Bill Bradley does not talk about his religous faith on the campaign trail. | Bradley refuses to discuss religion entirely, as he wants to focus on politics when on the campaign. | neutral |
Eastwood did more to make killing casual than anyone in mainstream cinema. | Eastwood made baking more casual in films starring himself. | contradiction |
On Tuesday's NYPD Blue (ABC, 10 p.m.), Rick Schroder's tight-lipped character, Danny Sorenson, opens up to Sipowicz while seeking help for an alcoholic friend. | NYPD Blue will broadcast on NBC at 9 p.m. on Monday. | contradiction |
Good economic news, as the man once said, always comes bundled with bad. | More bad economic news than good economic news was experienced yesterday by the man. | neutral |
The Majic Bus brought Brinkley minor fame. | Brinkley was a celebrity for a moment thanks to The Majic Bus. | entailment |
Careful what you wish for, Mayer cautions her fellow You'll miss his clownish antics when he's gone. | You won't miss him at all. | contradiction |
As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him. | Noyce, Moore, and Grove all led Intel. | entailment |
According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately. | Janet Reno has been Attorney General for 7 years. | neutral |
Later in the piece, Brill writes that Schmidt and another reporter declined all comment on their sources. | Brill also wasn't forthcoming about the sources he used for the piece. | neutral |
Hill never claimed that her unpleasant encounters with Thomas constituted actionable sexual harassment. | Thomas did not sexually harass Hill. | neutral |
He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone. | He tried to free himself. | neutral |
TP had to read yesterday's WP twice before noticing that key members of the Post editorial staff are apparently suffering the cerebral ill effects of too much exposure to brightly colored polyester. | Someone read the publication twice. | entailment |
First Build the prototype. | The prototype needs to be built. | entailment |
That about marked the end of Nash's career as a mathematical genius. | Nash had love mathematics ever since they were a child. | neutral |
Pepper and Blanco have conferred with Bush campaign officials in Austin twice since mid-August to discuss their ideas, according to sources on the campaign. | Pepper and Blanco know some officials in the Bush campaign. | entailment |
The Pentagon told CNN & | CNN was informed by the Pentagon. | entailment |
While accusing Clinton of invoking the Iraq conflict to delay the impeachment vote, Republicans invoke the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote. | President Clinton was never impeached. | contradiction |
It's true that different pieces benefit from different treatment | Certain treatments were tried that are not beneficial to any of the pieces. | neutral |
Your best friend/replacement matron of honor, herself, lives out of state. | Your best friend lives nearby, in this very neighborhood. | contradiction |
The article's author, Smithsonian curator Paul Forman, accused Gross and Levitt of trying to place science back on its pre-postmodern pedestal. | Paul Forman made allegations towards Gross and Levitt. | entailment |
Such a state, with a constitution and identical rights for all citizens, could guarantee long-term security in a way that the current fake peace doesn't. | Identical rights for all citizens provides a higher chance for long-term security. | entailment |
A Palestinian state is a certainty, according to an article, but sovereignty will be a sham. | Palestine is a soverign nation. | contradiction |
Innuendos 97: Fox News' Brit Hume claimed on Fox News Sunday that the word around town has it that the Department of Justice--which has failed to nail even one of the million Democrats guilty of campaign-finance violations--is aggressively pursuing its investigation of former Republican National Committee chief Haley Barbour. | Haley Barbour committed terrible acts. | neutral |
Marjorie, it's been a delight to correspond with you this week. | We will check back in with Marjorie next week. | neutral |
Is it possible, asks Livingstone, that Zapruder was a plant? | Livingston worked with Zapruder. | neutral |
Maybe she would like the Pentagon. | It's possible she likes the Pentagon. | entailment |
Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people. | The government is not to blame on the subject. | entailment |
We have some very tough laws against gun violence in Texas, and federal law with its mandatory sentences is tough as well. | In Texas, there are very tough laws against gun violence. | entailment |
The language is lackluster, the pacing leaden, the cliches plentiful, and the surprises few--no, not the campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses (Well, yes, but I'm thinking of something else here.) | The campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses do not use cliches and are full of surprises. | contradiction |
And you have to keep experimenting with alterations and examining the results as external conditions change over time. | Experiments must be altered and examined as external conditions change. | entailment |
A second reason some skeptics doubt that Albright could have been blindsided by her own life story is that since she has risen to prominence , the suggestion that she is Jewish has been raised repeatedly. | Being Jewish has nothing to do with being blindsided by one's own life story. | neutral |
There are those who argue passionately that life originated with a single replicated molecule. | People believe that life originated with a single replicated molecule. | entailment |
Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant. | The general election is based on the voice of the people. | neutral |
White House aide Sidney Blumenthal is in the hot seat for testifying that he never mentioned President Clinton's stalker description of Monica Lewinsky to reporters. | Clinton said that Lewinsky stalked him. | neutral |
Then comes the CNN/ Time sarin story to prove the professionals deserve all the scrutiny anyone else can muster. | The author argues that even professionals deserve to have their work put under scrunity. | entailment |
The test for Putin, says Berger, is the economy, stupid. | Berger is a journalist in Russia. | neutral |
the thing is I don't know how I can pick one or the other as maid of honor. | I dont know which person I should pick to be the maid of honor. | entailment |
By reputation, Baldwins play the field, sleeping around Hollywood, then settling down with a beautiful woman. | Several Baldwins have more than one child. | neutral |
As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again. | The snow will damage the more delicate flowers. | neutral |
But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part. | I have done something wrong. | entailment |
Teen films no longer glorify drug use, but other than that, very little. | Teen movies extoling the virtues of drug use is a thing of the past. | entailment |
The pessimistic one will lead to the other. | The pessimistic one has a big mouth. | neutral |
This story will be around for the remainder of the Clinton presidency, claims Shields. | Bill Clinton is the current President. | entailment |
More than that, once a condition is established as a diagnosis, society practically treats it as a crime not to do something about it. | Most people expect the condition to receive attention by experts. | entailment |
I mean to say only that if we ever did want to trash Earth, it would be morally permissible.) | It is never the right thing to do. | contradiction |
But as Felix Frankfurter wrote in dissent, this distinction is silly. | Felix Frankfurter frequently disagreed with the other judges. | neutral |
Thurmond is so old that it's considered bad form to criticize his sorry record or dredge up his racist past. | It's important that people continue to bring up Thurmond's past and sorry record as a reminder. | contradiction |
The heir to what was once the world's largest private oil fortune received his British passport in the week before Christmas and immediately revoked his US nationality, the newspaper said. | The heir believed it was better to live in the UK than it was to live in the United States. | neutral |
To which host Tim Russert replied, Why won't you abide by the 11 th Amendment and stop criticizing George W. Bush? | Host Tim Russert joined others in criticizing Bush. | contradiction |
The headline over the NYT 's online version doesn't mention the homosexual angle, while the WP 's headline--FRANCE LEGALIZES GAY UNIONS--doesn't mention the heterosexual angle. | the caption from NYT failed to mention the homosexual angle. | entailment |
But few would discard laws against organ selling. | It is a more moral world if the most wealthy individuals can buy organs on the open market. | neutral |
The publication doesn't report where Mrs. | The publication reported where Mrs. | contradiction |
Do begin again, and Prudie predicts 1999 will be your year. | Prudie predicts 1999 will not be your year. | contradiction |
In fact, what his grand principle amounts to no vote for cash. | His principle can be defined as no vote for cash. | entailment |
And, when he could, would bite. | Don't worry, he never bites. | contradiction |
According to an index of food prices in Bailey's book, food prices in 1996 were up 8 percent since 1990, but down 113 percent since 1975. | Food prices in 1990 were less than they were in 1975 according to Bailey's book. | entailment |
Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model. | The fans are mostly men who are overweight and live in their parents basement. | neutral |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.