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.

Statement: But this caveat has a  The prospect of future punishments gives you an incentive to investigate the corporation's history before you buy, which improves the chance that bad behavior can be uncovered while the actual perpetrators can still be punished. Choices: 1. CEOs often avoid punishment by selling their businesses. 2. The prospect of punishment won't encourage research into the history of a corporation. 3. Threats of punishment encourage you to research companies before purchase.
1

Statement: for TV coverage it's pitiful Choices: 1. It was excellent for TV coverage. 2. They didn't do enough interviews on the ground. 3. It wasn't good as far as TV coverage goes.
2

Statement: this year we didn't this last season it was it was too wet up here Choices: 1. It rained so much that the plants thrived this year. 2. We didn't this year because it was too wet. 3. We didn't plant anything this year. It rained too much to plant. If we would've planted, the seeds would have rotted.

3