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: On the eastern edge of town, north of the Umeno Hashi bridge across the Asano River, is the old geisha district, slightly more rundown than Nagamachi but no less quaint. Sentence 2: The city is one of the oldest in the western world.  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: For  1) Little is known about the relative costs of flats and parcels in Priority and Express Mail. Sentence 2: The two year old and the teenager are going through similar stages. Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
N