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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.
question:
Statement: He has just rushed past me like a mad bull." Choices: 1. He stood next to me. 2. He ran by me, eager to get outside. 3. He ran by me.
answer:
2


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Statement: Magic to lift things instead of honest ropes that shrink and wood that swells. Choices: 1. Magic is the most honest way to lift things. 2. Magic is dishonest because it can only be used by politicians. 3. Ropes and wood are more host ways to lift things than magic.
answer:
2


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Statement: A recently released Soviet document implicates Theodore Hall, a physicist at Cambridge University. Choices: 1. Theodore Hall has been implicated by documents. 2. The Soviet documents implicate Theodore Hall of a crime originating from the cold war era. 3. Theodore Hall works as a English teacher at a local high school.
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2