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: The company's CEO despaired to USA Today that he couldn't purchase enough of them to meet demand, but that he was swimming in $25 canvas Christmas totes. Sentence 2: The CEO had been advised the canvas totes were out of style this year, but chose not to listen. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: "Don't promise us much shadin' times, does it?" Anse remarked. Sentence 2: Havana has no lively parties. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Available evidence indicates that households are willing to pay more for a given visibility improvement as their income increases. Sentence 2: Some evidence shows households will pay more for an improvement to visibility when they make over $100,000. Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
Y