TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given two sentences. Indicate if the first sentence clearly entails the second sentence (i.e., one can conclude the 2nd sentence by reading the 1st one). Indicate your answer with '1' if the first sentence entails the second sentence, otherwise answer with '0'.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: A gunman has killed at least nine people in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama before killing himself. Officials say there were at least four separate shooting incidents. The gunman fired on homes, a petrol station, shops and vehicles in Samson and Geneva near the Florida border.  Five people - including a child - were killed in one home. Several of the victims are believed to have been members of the gunman's family.  The gunman has not been formally identified, but was named in the local press as Michael McLendon. Sentence 2: Michael McLendon has killed his child in Samson.

SOLUTION: 0

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: This year, however, the contest has taken on a new urgency as the Clinton Administration, moving to block the Pyongyang government's bid to build a nuclear arsenal, has rekindled some of the passion in North Korea's defiance of the West. Sentence 2: Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.

SOLUTION: 0

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has made an unannounced visit to Iraq, according to the office of Iraqi transitional Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Sentence 2: Howard is a political representative of Australia.

SOLUTION:
1

