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: Even the two-part fluffy carpet I saw in Elle seems just an awkward effort to stir things up. Sentence 2: They are weighed at ten pounds. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Another, the one who cried out, was belaboring the flogger with empty fists, and the voice was that of a girl! Sentence 2: A girl was hitting the flogger. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Well, why read any type of fiction? Sentence 2: I heard that he was not a team player. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N