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: And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up. Sentence 2: Modern Scots are prohibited from being included in the gallery. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: they they'll serve they'll serve a quarter of it so if you want them to stay in prison for fifteen years don't sentence them to fifteen years sentence them to a hundred you know because then they'll serve fifteen or twenty so which is really i don't know Sentence 2: If you want someone in jail for 15 years you should sentence them for a hundred. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: It was more of an enormous lean-to than a true building, but it was the best protection now available. Sentence 2: It is never on ESPN in the morning. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N