TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Statement: uh certainly not presidential but but quite possibly VP and here they are they they know very well they can't do it because if they do it's going to split the party and if they do it they're going to alienate a whole bunch of others so i mean they were stuck one way or the other yeah it was an interesting thing i was laughing through the whole thing uh Choices: 1. Most people agreed with me that it was hilarious.  2. They're in a bit of a catch-22.  3. I thought it was extremely boring and dull. 

SOLUTION: 1

PROBLEM: Statement: We are accustomed to defending free markets as the guarantors of both liberty and prosperity, but here's a case where liberty and prosperity are at  By forcing people to act against their own self-interest in the short run, governments can make everybody more prosperous in the long run. Choices: 1. Governments can make people thrive. 2. Governments can't do anything to fix the economy. 3. Governments can make the economy work for everyone.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: and that's about uh three or four less than civil servants get Choices: 1. That's about three or four less than civil servants get 2. It's about ten times more than civil servants get 3. That's about three or four less times the salary that civil servants get

SOLUTION:
3