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: To celebrate Bastille Day (14 July) or the 1944 Liberation (25August), blue, white, and red laser beams are bounced off the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and Hotel de Ville. Sentence 2: The laser beam light event takes place at night.  Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: On the Adriatic, Pesaro honors its native son Rossini from mid-August to late September. Sentence 2: The new strategy involved divesting itself of all assets. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The Postal Service petitioned the Commission in 1995 to adopt rules to implement some of the task force's recommendations. Sentence 2: The Commission was petitioned in 1995 by the Postal Service, in order to meet some of the task force's recommendations. Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
Y