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: 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.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: oh taxes lord forbid forbid lord forbid taxes goodness gracious if we would uh plan our expressways a little better that ten dollars for the bridges and the roads we'd cut that in half and give to the teachers we might have such a problem Choices: 1. If the expressways were planned better some of the tax money could be used for education. 2. We are in a dire situation in need for funding in the field of education. 3. The expressways are planned just fine.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: After the explaining is done, however, judgments must still be made. Choices: 1. After Congress finishes explaining things, judgments must be made. 2. Judgement must still be made after the explaining is done. 3. Judgments wont have to be made after the explanation is done.

A:
1
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