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: His hometown was Ornans. Choices: 1. His hometown was Ornans. 2. His hometown was Cartier. 3. He doesn't live around  there anymore but his hometown was Ornans.

A: 3
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Q: Statement: Going to upset our delicate multicultural balance. Choices: 1. Our multicultural balance might only be upset a little by this. 2. Our multicultural balance is delicate and will likely be upset by this. 3. This will not upset the delicate multicultural balance.

A: 1
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Q: Statement: If a lie, by definition, becomes a lie only in the context of communication (speech, writing, gesture), and if a lie is immoral because it destroys the fundamental trust that makes communication possible--if all this is so, can a lie be told in a context where communication is understood to have no objective value to begin with? Choices: 1. Most communication that occurs between people are not lies. 2. Lies only occur in the context of communication and are immoral. 3. Lies can reinforce trust that makes communication possible.

A:
1
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