Student: Premise: "People riding escalator in a shopping mall."\nHypothesis: "Shoppers taking an escalator rather than the stairs."\nIs the hypothesis entailed by the premise?\nOptions:\n- yes\n- it is not possible to tell\n- no.
Teacher: Let's think:

User
Riding an escalator does not imply that it is instead of the stairs. So the final answer is it is not possible to tell.
Assistant