TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given two sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2, and the genre they belong to. Your job is to determine if the two sentences belong to the same genre or not. Indicate your answer with Y and N respectively. Genres available include: face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction. Sentences belonging to 'face-to-face' genres relate to conversations or dialogues, 'government' encompasses information released from public government websites, 'letters' refers to any written work for philanthropic fundraising, '9/11' relates to information pertaining to the 9/11 attacks, 'oup' includes non-fiction works on the textile industry and child development, 'slate' refers to any cultural topic that appears in the slate magazine, 'telephone' includes telephonic dialogue, 'travel' deals with information in travel guides, 'verbatim' includes short posts regarding linguistics, and 'fiction' includes popular works of fiction like 'The Secret Adversary' etc.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development. Sentence 2: All movies are too violent nowadays. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: right but see i really think yeah i i think those characters came right off the screen in that story you know it was really enjoyable and and my wife we thought the same thing we were so pleasantly surprised Sentence 2: My wife and I were in agreement about the story being amazing. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: i think when they're really little like the eighteen month old it's not fair to the animal because the kids are so miserable to them if they're out very much Sentence 2: Drove the car to the other side of town where it's extremely beautiful and I think I will take Jane there for a bit after I locate her. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N