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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: For example, management approval was needed before individuals could share information about potentially sensitive incidents and vulnerabilities. Choices: 1. Management approval was needed before individuals could share information about incidents and vulnerabilities  2. Management oversaw everything  3. Management approval was not needed to submit a report
answer:
2


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Statement: To my intense surprise, he replied that, on the contrary, he was extremely likely to be acquitted.  Choices: 1. John Cavendish was the man who was likely to be acquitted. 2. I was not surprised at all that he said the man was likely to go free. 3. I was surprised that he said that the man was likely to be acquitted.
answer:
1


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Statement: (Oddly, given the results of yesterday's News Quiz, few participants made the obvious leap and added farm animals as well.) Choices: 1. Participants actually started choosing to add people instead of animals. 2. Not very many added farm animals despite the results of the quiz. 3. Not surprisingly, people started adding farm animals by the boatload.
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1