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: They spoke of a statue of a woman with long twisted arms and the head of a beast. Choices: 1. They were talking about a mountain with the rocky head of a beast. 2. They were talking about a statue with the head of a beast. 3. They were talking about a statue with the head of a lion.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: as as we did and as we sold arms to  pardon me to Iraq when we wanted them to fight Iran and then uh and then it turned around and Choices: 1. The Iraqis were unable to engage Iran effectively since they don't have arms. 2. Iraq was sold arms so that they could fight Iran. 3. As it turned out, this was a huge mistake.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: yeah i i don't understand it either although i i think a lot of South Americans regard the United States as as bullying and uh that's certainly from a historical point of view would be true i mean certainly we took far more from Mexico than Saddam Hussein ever dreamed of taking in in his wildest dreams from his neighbors Choices: 1. Mexico and South America are right to be afraid of being bullied by the US. 2. We took much more from Mexico than Hussein dreamt of taking from neighboring countries. 3. The US has never taken anything from Mexico.

SOLUTION:
1