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: ACCOUNTABILITY Sentence 2: Hinduism and Islam used to coexist peacefully. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The effect of these stories from the nether regions of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been like crying wolf. Sentence 2: These stories have had the effect of crying wolf. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: On the eastern edge of town, north of the Umeno Hashi bridge across the Asano River, is the old geisha district, slightly more rundown than Nagamachi but no less quaint. Sentence 2: The city is one of the oldest in the western world.  Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
N