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: 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.
[EX A]: 2

[EX Q]: Statement: The trotting race is a particularly exciting event to watch. Choices: 1. The trotting race involves 15 horses and lasts 3 hours. 2. One can watch a trotting race and it's exciting. 3. Nobody likes to watch the trotting race due to lack of entertainment.
[EX A]: 1

[EX Q]: Statement: Some who were mounted were trying to parallel the runners. Choices: 1. The riders are perpendicular to the runners. 2. The runners and the riders are going the same direction. 3. The riders are parallel to the runners.
[EX A]:
2