We describe our submission to the PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge, which attempts to isolate the set of Text-Hypothesis pairs whose categorization can be accurately predicted based solely on syntactic cues. Two human annotators examined each pair, showing that a surprisingly large proportion of the data – 34% of the test items – can be handled with syntax alone, while adding information from a general-purpose thesaurus increases this to 48%

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