Test for natural language inference.
Premise: "A little boy kneels and prepares to throw a basketball."
Hypothesis: "A little beel kneels then throws a basketball."
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Options:
- yes
- no
- it is not possible to tell Let's be accurate as possible and think first.

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
The little boy kneels before he throws that basketball to prepare to throw it. Final answer: yes.