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: Maybe Doc Matthews ain't here, after all.  Choices: 1. Doc Matthews is right here.  2. Perhaps Doc Matthews isn't here after all.  3. Perhaps Doc Matthews is still at the bar. 

A: 3
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Q: Statement: Beneath the wheels, there are lively carved friezes of elephants playing with children. Choices: 1. There is a depiction of elephants playing with children. 2. The children are playing with the elephants tusks. 3. The children and elephants are fighting in the friezes.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: Barbarians and museum curators have removed most of the villa's treasures, but a stroll through the remaining pillars, arches, and mosaic fragments in gardens running wild among the olive trees, cypresses, and pines can be marvelously evocative of a lost world. Choices: 1. Thre are no cypress or olive trees in the villa's gardens.  2. The villa once housed a vast collection of paintings and sculptures.  3. The majority of the treasures in the villa have been taken by museum curators and barbarians. 

A:
2
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