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: yeah which is why for centuries you know hundreds of years the British and the French had so much influence in there because they'd go in and they'd win something Choices: 1. For hundreds of years the British and French had a lot of influence because they'd go in and win something. 2. For hundreds of years the British and French had a lot of influence in the Ottoman empire. 3. The British and French never had influence there.

2