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: After that, my nerve went completely. Choices: 1. I hadn't been confident to begin with.  2. I lost my nerve after that.  3. That made me realize that I could do it. 

SOLUTION: 1

PROBLEM: Statement: Thorn lay on the ground staring up at a sky he no longer recognized. Choices: 1. Thorn was not familiar with the sky he was looking up at .  2. Thorn stood on the dock looking down at the water.  3. Thorn had never seen so much smoke in the sky, a bright day suddenly turned black. 

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: What? Why, the impertinent monstrosity. Choices: 1. It was really very ugly. 2. This is rather lovely. 3. Why this?

SOLUTION:
1