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: I will remember.  Sentence 2: I wouldn't want to start swimming, since I am doing enough aerobic activity already. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: According to Michael Lee of the University of Sydney and Michael Caldwell of Chicago's Field Museum, the 100-million-year-old fossil, christened Pachyrachis problematicus (problematic thick-ribbed animal) in the late 1970s, is a proto-snake with two legs. Sentence 2: Each guide usually grew up in the local area and has learned the oral tradition passed down by his forebears. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Free speech and free elections were not the only  gambling was legalized and nude bathing was sanctioned. Sentence 2: In fact, this reduced the cost. Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
N