<EXAMPLE 1>
<Question>
PREMISES:
No professional soccer players play professional basketball.
All professional soccer defenders are professional soccer players.
All professional centerbacks are professional soccer defenders.
Some athletes are professional center-backs.
Stephen Curry plays professional basketball.
CONCLUSION:
If Stephen Curry is a professional centerback, then he is not an athlete.
</Question>
<Options>
COT (Chain of Thought, Language Only) – Solve the problem by reasoning through each step in natural language, breaking it down logically.
PAL (Program-Aided Language, Coding Only) – Directly write a Python program to solve the problem.
</Options>
<Reasoning>
For this problem the premises and conclusion are stated in a way that can be clearly translated into formal logical expressions. The relationships among soccer players, centerbacks, defenders, and basketball players are defined in a structured and unambiguous manner. Converting these statements into a formal system (e.g., first-order logic) can help ensure that the deductions are precise and any hidden assumptions or contradictions are revealed. Although a chain-of-thought approach could work, the structured nature of the problem makes a program-aided, formal approach the simplest and most reliable method.\n\nSelected method: PAL (Program-Aided Language, Coding Only)
</Reasoning>
<Answer>
Selected method: PAL.
</Answer>
</EXAMPLE 1>

<EXAMPLE 2>
<Question>
PREMISES:
Pulp is an English band.
Jarvis Cocker was a member of Pulp.
In 2014 a documentary about Pulp was released.
Documentaries about bands feature the members.
Pulp released an album that reached the number one spot in the UK Albums Chart.
CONCLUSION:
Pulp is a band from England.
</Question>
<Options>
COT (Chain of Thought, Language Only) – Solve the problem by reasoning through each step in natural language, breaking it down logically.
PAL (Program-Aided Language, Coding Only) – Directly write a Python program to solve the problem.
</Options>
<Reasoning>
The premises and conclusion in this problem are stated in clear, straightforward natural language and involve relatively simple logical connections. Although there are several premises, the reasoning steps to derive the conclusion do not involve deeply intricate or convoluted logic\u2014just a matter of linking given facts. Therefore, using a step-by-step natural language chain of thought is simple and effective for this case.\n\nSelected method: COT (Chain-of-Thought, Language Only)
</Reasoning>
<Answer>
Selected method: COT.
</Answer>
</EXAMPLE 2>

<EXAMPLE 3>
<Question>
PREMISES:
Every student at the Yale School of Management either enrolls part-time or full-time in the current semester.
No student at Yale School of Management who enrolls full-time takes less than two courses in the current semester.
If a student at Yale School of Management owns a new start-up, then that student takes less than two courses in the current semester.
All students at the Yale School of Management who are listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 own new start-ups.
Jackie is a student studying at Yale School of Management, and she  takes less than two courses in the current semester, or she is listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30, or both.
CONCLUSION:
If Jackie either enrolls as part-time in the current semester and is listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30, or neither enrolls as part-time in the current semester nor is listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30, then Jackie takes less than two courses in the current semester and listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30.
</Question>
<Options>
COT (Chain of Thought, Language Only) – Solve the problem by reasoning through each step in natural language, breaking it down logically.
PAL (Program-Aided Language, Coding Only) – Directly write a Python program to solve the problem.
</Options>
<Reasoning>
The given premises and conclusion use precise logical constructs (quantifiers, conditionals, disjunctions, etc.) that lend themselves well to a formal translation into first-order logic. Because the natural language is relatively straightforward and unambiguous in its logical structure, encapsulating these statements in symbolic form via a program-aided approach will offer systematic, rigorous checks. In this specific case, using PAL minimizes the risk of error associated with a long chain-of-thought and allows the verification to be handled through symbolic logic methods. \n\nSelected method: PAL
</Reasoning>
<Answer>
Selected method: PAL.
</Answer>
</EXAMPLE 3>

<EXAMPLE 4>
<Question>
PREMISES:
A fortification is a military construction designed to defend territories in warfare.
Borj Masouda is one of the four main fortifications of the medina of Sfax.
The Sfax medina is in Tunisia.
The defensive wall is a type of fortification.
CONCLUSION:
Borj Masouda is a construction.
</Question>
<Options>
COT (Chain of Thought, Language Only) – Solve the problem by reasoning through each step in natural language, breaking it down logically.
PAL (Program-Aided Language, Coding Only) – Directly write a Python program to solve the problem.
</Options>
<Reasoning>
The premises are straightforward and define clear relationships between the concepts (e.g., a fortification is a military construction). The deduction is simply recognizing that if Borj Masouda is a fortification, and every fortification is a construction, then Borj Masouda must be a construction. This reasoning is simple enough to be effectively managed with natural language chain-of-thought analysis. There's no significant intricacy that requires programmatic verification or symbolic computation, so a program-aided approach would be unnecessarily complex.\n\nSelected method: COT (Chain-of-Thought, Language Only)
</Reasoning>
<Answer>
Selected method: COT.
</Answer>
</EXAMPLE 4>

The following is the problem you need to solve.

<Question>
{Premises}
<Question>
<Options>
COT (Chain of Thought, Language Only) – Solve the problem by reasoning through each step in natural language, breaking it down logically.
PAL (Program-Aided Language, Coding Only) – Directly write a Python program to solve the problem.
</Options>
<Reasoning>