Test for natural language inference.\nPremise: "The man and woman are sitting by the boats."\nHypothesis: "The man is near a boat."\nIs the hypothesis entailed by the premise?\nOptions:\n- yes\n- no\n- it is not possible to tell
Step-by-step reasoning process below:
yes
A man could be sitting by the boats with a woman.

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So, the answer is yes