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.

[EX Q]: Statement: In some cases its sanctions are adequate, but not always. Choices: 1. In all cases its sanctions are adequate 2. In some cases its sanctions are pathetic in the eyes of authority 3. In some cases its sanctions are adequate
[EX A]: 2

[EX Q]: Statement: Two large wrestlers, symbolic of the first Malla, a strongman, flank the open porch of this structure, and a gilded Garuda kneels on a column above. Choices: 1. There used to be three large wrestlers that symbolized the first Malla. 2. The first Malla was a strong man, purportedly a wrestler.  3. A stone Garuda that kneels on a column above. 
[EX A]: 1

[EX Q]: Statement: One pattern that quickly arises is an apparently never-ending series of contradictions. Choices: 1. The only pattern which emerges quickly is an endless series of contradictions. 2. An endless series of contradictions, is a pattern which tends to arise slowly. 3. A pattern which forms rapidly is a seemingly never-ending series of contradictions.
[EX A]:
1