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: benefits, recommended over 600 actions that have led to improvements in government operations, and provided 229 testimonies requested by congressional committees. Sentence 2: There are improvements in the actions of the government. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: If he does it by proxy it's cowardly.' Sentence 2: An interim air-operating permit may need to be obtained until changes occurs, in every State. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Their subtlety of colour, liveliness of posture, and strong, lifelike faces record a last remarkable flowering of Byzantine art before its descent into decadence. Sentence 2: Byzantine art went through one last heyday before it fell into decadence. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
Y