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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.
question:
Statement: Union Pacific then consolidated its operations, eliminating the Las Vegas repair facility. Choices: 1. The Union Pacific consolidated its operations. 2. There was a time when Las Vegas was not supposed to be a place. 3. Las Vegas never had a repair facility.
answer:
2


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Statement: Magic to lift things instead of honest ropes that shrink and wood that swells. Choices: 1. Magic is the most honest way to lift things. 2. Magic is dishonest because it can only be used by politicians. 3. Ropes and wood are more host ways to lift things than magic.
answer:
2


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Statement: We've sent out a doppelganger to fool the Sons, and the orderly has been sentenced to slavery under the pyramid builder for twenty lifetimes. Choices: 1. They didn't know that the Sons couldn't be fooled by a mere doppelganger. 2. The doppelganger hasn't been deployed yet, the orderly yet to be sentenced. 3. The copycat should trick the Sons, and the orderly has been made a slave.
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1