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.
Input: Statement: But at the same time he was painting his carcasses of cattle and fowl, around 1925, Soutine painted a series of portraits of uniformed workers--bellhops, pastry cooks, grooms--of which the Maxim's page boy is probably the best known. Choices: 1. He was painting the animal carcasses.. 2. He was painting the cows that were grazing in the field. 3. He was painting the animal carcasses because he didnt have anything else to paint.

3