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: Life aboard ship is tough Sentence 2: Life is hard aboard a ship. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: As if the Web wasn't slow enough already. Sentence 2: now that i've given it some thought, i guess for kids, especially when they're young Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: For much of that time, the federal government did not contribute to saving; instead it was a borrower, its deficits absorbing a share of the saving pool available for investment. Sentence 2: The program was successful because of how much was invested.  Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
N