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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.
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Statement: He says: "Find the extra coffee-cup, and you can rest in peace!" ' Nothing more.  Choices: 1. No one else knew why Poirot thought the coffee cup was important. 2. Poirot told them to find the extra dinner plate. 3. The extra coffee cup was an important clue that had to be found. 
answer:
1


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Statement: If a husband knocks his wife down, breaks her jaw or arm - abuses her terribly - he will be picked up and put in jail. Choices: 1. A husband will be thrown in jail for a month for hitting his wife. 2. A husband won't be charged for hitting his wife. 3. A husband will get arrested for abusing his wife.
answer:
1


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Statement: Rescued from obscurity three months ago by a rave from the New York Times ' Ben Brantley, Gross Indecency , about the Irish playwright's famous sodomy trials, started an open-ended New York run last week. Choices: 1. The Irish playwright was inspired by real-life sodomy trials. 2. Ben Brantley's scathing review knocked the play right into obscurity. 3. Ben Brantley gave a great review and the play benefited.
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1