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: Why not give discounts based on cost avoidances promised in a previous rate or classification case but which savings were never captured by the Postal Service? Sentence 2: All the previous rates did not have any cost avoidances. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Considering only the boilermakers who are currently in demand by the utility industry, the demand would be about 38 percent of the journeyman boilermakers or about 31 percent for journeymen and apprentices combined. Sentence 2: The demand for journeyman boilermakers would add up to as much as 40 percent. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Of course they cut welfare rolls. Sentence 2: Insurance and having him at home are not at all important to me. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N