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: He swung but fell to the defensive. Sentence 2: He fell to the defensive after swinging. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Newspaper reporters increasingly feel themselves irrelevant--marginalized by TV news and the Internet, ignored by a younger generation of nonreaders. Sentence 2: The modern structures are very ugly compared to the old homes that were there before.  Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Whatever the merits of this idea--and there are some--it does not address the problem at hand. Sentence 2: The idea should be improved to address the problem. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION:
Y