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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: He saw the hurt in the man's eyes but he had to talk to the Swords alone. Choices: 1. He took the man with him to attack the Swords. 2. He knew the man was upset but it was for his own good. 3. He had to speak with them privately.
answer:
2


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Statement: About half of it, however, is out of bounds to all but the military, but that still leaves huge areas of sand and surf. Choices: 1. The entire beach is open to the public. 2. The sand is a bright white. 3. Half of the area is off limits to the general public.
answer:
2


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Statement: but um i also am sponsoring a literary magazine and we're doing our entire layout on the computer uh because of the graphics program and a page maker program that we have a publishing program Choices: 1. I am sponsoring a literary magazine and doing the entire layout on the computer. 2. The literary magazine said that we were the most qualified people to sponsor them. 3. The only way to edit the layout of the magazine is by hand.
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2