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: Perhaps he has an ideological ax to grind--after all, a few months back he proclaimed Marx the thinker of the future. Sentence 2: We are certainly no better off as a family now than we have ever been in the past. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Now imagine being at my Web site, reading my promotional materials, and deciding you'd like to read the book. Sentence 2: People have to be forced to change because naturally they do not want to. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1:  "I think the captain will agree there are no prisoners,"Topham said. Sentence 2: The captain knew that there really were some prisoners. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION:
Y