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.

Q: Statement: that he's written yeah yeah uh i think his name was Bachman he wrote under the name of Bachman Choices: 1. He prefers to use his real name rather than the name Bachman. 2. He thought the name Bachman was a fitting name for the author of his work. 3. He utilized a pen-name when he wrote.

A: 2
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Q: Statement: It will be a lightning rod for controversy, he predicted.  Choices: 1. He predicted that it would spark controversy greatly.  2. He predicted that the controversy would die down within a few weeks.  3. He predicted that it wouldn't cause any controversy. 

A: 2
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Q: Statement: Nobunaga was assassinated by one of his own generals in 1582, and Hideyoshi, who had started out as a simple infantryman, succeeded him. Choices: 1. Nobunaga was poisoned by his generals and succeeded by Hideyoshi. 2. Nobunaga was assassinated in 1582 and succeeded by Hideyoshi, who was once an infantryman. 3. Nobunaga lived a long fruitful life and died of old age after commanding Japanese armies his entire life.

A:
1
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