TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Statement: What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat. Choices: 1. Commoditization works for industrialized nations not by being a reality but by being a threat. 2. Commoditization works not by being a reality but by being a threat. 3. Commoditization works not by being a threat but by being a reality.

SOLUTION: 1

PROBLEM: Statement: And the doubly-damned fools had let Menes drive millions of slaves to death to build a pyramid to the sky when there were already natural columns that could have been used! Choices: 1. Menes had a pyramid built to the sky but could have used the natural columns they were there. 2. Menes was going to build a pyramid, but decided to use the natural columns. 3. Menes wanted to go to the sky to challenge the Vampire Lord.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: Sample the taste of ackee cooked with saltfish, Jamaica's national dish, and the smell of hot jerk pork cooked in a pit barbecue. Choices: 1. Jamaica's national dish is ackee cooked with saltfish. 2. Ackee cooked with saltfish is not available for sampling.  3. Hot Jerk Pork is another contender for Jamaica's national dish.

SOLUTION:
3