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: so if the economy gets better are you going to get another one another house Sentence 2: In the museum, there are eight vacant cubbies that may have once held statues. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Where V = volume in billions of pieces, b = basic (referring to the non-workshared category of First-Class Mail), ws = workshare, P = price, and D = discount. Sentence 2: The formula  to calculate total mail delivered is: V=B+WS/P-D Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: yeah yeah yeah right right i know but i'll tell you what um we're really strict with our kids about television and one night a couple of weeks ago Sentence 2: We do not let our kids watch TV whenever they want to. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
Y