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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Question: Statement: The LSC declares in its brief, and respondents do not deny, that under these provisions the LSC can sponsor neither challenges to nor defenses of existing welfare reform law, Brief for Petitioner in No. Choices: 1. They had full power in the welfare reform laws. 2. They were upset they could not do what they want. 3. They were not able to challenge the reform laws.

Answer: 2


Question: Statement: I remembered Mary as she lay white and exhausted on the sofa, listening, listening.  Choices: 1. Mary lay pale on the sofa as she listened. 2. What Mary was listening to made her pale in the face. 3. Mary sat on the sofa as she listened.

Answer: 2


Question: Statement: It may be that this time he will not be the lucky one. Choices: 1. He doesn't have the luck on his side, he won't win the competition this time around, I assume. 2. He won't be lucky this time. Or so I think. 3. He will be the lucky one, just like last time.

Answer:
1