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: Today, millions of frequent flyer miles earned on official travel are going unused, benefiting neither the government nor its employees. Sentence 2: He was being strangled. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: He swung but fell to the defensive. Sentence 2: He fell to the defensive after swinging. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: General Electric and General Motors, among others, have done a brilliant job of using acquisitions to strengthen both themselves and the acquired companies. Sentence 2: Congress reformed replacing presumptive refunding in 1996.   Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
N