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In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
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Statement: The LSC declares in its brief, and respondents do not deny, that under these provisions the LSC can sponsor neither challenges to nor defenses of existing welfare reform law, Brief for Petitioner in No. Choices: 1. They had full power in the welfare reform laws. 2. They were upset they could not do what they want. 3. They were not able to challenge the reform laws.
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2


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Statement: We have been asked to examine the reasons for state variation in unfiled returns. Choices: 1. We are to examine the reasons for state variation in unified returns. 2. We have also been asked to bake a cake. 3. We will not examine state variation in unfiled returns as we have never been asked to.
answer:
2


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Statement: you know their all the demonstrations that were going on i felt like they got way too much media coverage and publicity because those kind of people i mean you know they're the kind of people who are w ho've always got to have a cause whether it's good bad of indifferent they've got to have a cause and Choices: 1. There are too many demonstrations. 2. These people always need to have a cause. 3. There is no media coverage.
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1