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.

Q: Statement: It's losing its command-and-control structure. Choices: 1. The command and control structure is good to go. 2. This is because there is no funding to keep it up to date. 3. The command and control structure is deteriorating. 

A: 2
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Q: Statement: He is simply he. Choices: 1. He is, quite simply, he. 2. Pronouns are sometimes difficult to follow, so he chooses to use the word 'he' out of simplicity. 3. He does not like to be called as such, and prefers gender-neutral pronouns instead.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: Chatterbox had thought it old hat (it dates back at least to the Bush administration), but the phrase appeared 272 times in the CR database for 1999, ranking it second among all submissions. Choices: 1. The phrase had not been used since the 1960's. 2. Chatterbox thought the phrase was outdated. 3. The phrase continued to be used going forward.

A:
3
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