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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.
question:
Statement: The latter factor exists because postal systems need to be designed to handle a wide range of mailpieces, generated by a wide range of mailers. Choices: 1. Postal systems only need to handle one kind of mailpiece. 2. Some of the mailers using the postal system do not know what they're doing. 3. A wide range of mailers are likely to use the postal system.
answer:
2


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Statement: Somebody handed me a microphone, and I stood on the edge of the stage; looking down over the precipice, staring at all of the scruffy young people below. Choices: 1. While holding a microphone, I looked at a bunch of young people. 2. Young people in the audience were judging me. 3. Somebody handed me a live chicken.
answer:
2


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Statement: Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? Choices: 1. Would you be less of a person, less of an individual? 2. It makes you less of a person and less of an individual.  3. Does doing this make you less of a person?
answer:

3