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: Where's your little friend?   Sentence 2: The question as to whether or not they will be getting you to the ferries on time follows a litany of failures on the part of the service in question.  Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Raines reportedly heard messages from Clinton on Lewinsky's answering machine. Sentence 2: Clinton could have been the first female president of the United States of America. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: For his group, that would mean LSNY can withhold more than 80 percent of its $4. Sentence 2: The emptiness of space. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION:
N