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: And, in theory, feeding a write-off reserve back into operating income shouldn't even be possible. Sentence 2: After the massacre, the survivors began to flee the are en masse. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: My security clearance was shaky at best, but the guards knew who I was. Sentence 2: The guards knew me. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: that's right yeah that's that's true too that's true too but Sentence 2: That's true, I agree, but only under these conditions. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
Y