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: The Hippodrome was the setting for the ceremony which proclaimed Constantinople as the New Rome in a.d. 330, following the division of the Roman Empire, and soon became the civic centre of the Byzantine capital, decorated with imposing monuments and flanked by fine buildings. Choices: 1. The civic centre of the Byzantine capital was beautiful to behold. 2. There was a ceremony which proclaimed Constantinople as the New Rome in a.d. 330. 3. The Hippodrome was quite plain and uninteresting.

1