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: The Postal Service has established the zones and the ZIP Codes that are now used by all carriers. Sentence 2: Postal Service mail codes have contributed to the digitization of carrier information. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Surrounded by acres of farmland hewn from the hard desert, the adobe fort became a focal point for the development of Las Vegas for the next fifty years. Sentence 2: You can definitely solicit money while you're in the White House. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Cross the river and you are in a mini-Manhattan that has sprouted since 1969 to become a city in its own right. Sentence 2: It's a story about politics and lobbying, in the era of the civil war. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N