Q: If "A woman and a young girl pose and smile for a photo." does that mean that "A person is throwing a rock at a photographer."?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
A: One cannot throw something at a photographer while posing for a photo with him.
The answer is no.

QUESTION: Premise: "A brown headed boy in a gray t-shirt is playing."
Based on this premise, can we conclude that the hypothesis "A boy is playing." is true?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Let's solve it slowly: A boy is a boy; playing is playing; tautologies are tautological.
The answer is yes.

[QUESTION] Given the sentence "A young man in a white t-shirt is looking at the photographer." can we conclude that "A young man is smiling for the camera."?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
The young man is not necessarily smiling while having his picture taken.
The answer is it is not possible to tell.

Q: Given the sentence "An old man is sitting on a stone bench." can we conclude that "A man is watching tv from his couch."?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
A: The man cannot sit on both a bench and a couch.
The answer is no.

QUESTION: Given the sentence "A baseball player who plays for the irish is trying to make an out." can we conclude that "The baseball team is winning."?
Options:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

Let's solve it slowly: A baseball player who plays for the Irish is trying to make an out is not necessarily winning.
The answer is it is not possible to tell.

QUESTION: Test for natural language inference.
Premise: "A bearded man wearing a painter's cap is playing the xylophone on the side of a busy walkway."
Hypothesis: "A man with a beard is playing an instrument on the sidewalk."
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Options:
- yes
- no
- it is not possible to tell

Let's solve it slowly:

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
user
A man with a beard is a bearded man and a xylophone is an instrument.
The answer is yes.