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: Miss Howard has previously made up a cock and bull story about him and Mrs. Raikes to account for his holding his tongue afterwards.  Choices: 1. No one believed the story that Miss Howard has made up. 2. Miss Howard has never made any suspicious stories. 3. He held his tongue, and Miss Howard made up a story to account for it.

Answer: 1


Question: Statement: By Neolithic times, organized communities had arisen, such as the one at ?ȡtalh??y??k, near Konya, Turkey's most important prehistoric site. Choices: 1. Turkey's most important prehistoric site can be found near Konya. 2. No important prehistoric site has been found near Konya to this day. 3. The are hundreds of sights to see near Konya, Turkey.

Answer: 3


Question: Statement: Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate  Immediate Priorities and a Long-Range Research Portfolio. Choices: 1. There are immediate priorities and a long-range research portfolio. 2. The priorities are very high in importance. 3. There are no such things as research priorities for Airborne Particulate.

Answer:
2