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: He shook his head. Sentence 2: "We're all too laid back now, if you ask me" said Tommy  Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Eighty-nine engineering regulations were thereby consolidated into 7, and the number of pages of Corps' regulations was reduced from 1,596 to 306. Sentence 2: We are able to do it another time.  Genre: government.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: She had worked for a refugee-relief project in the most lawless region of South Asia before finding her way into an even more dangerous part of the world--one of great importance for U.S. foreign policy. Sentence 2: The only link with the outside world on some of the smaller islands are ferries. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION:
N