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: At day's end, lodge guests compare notes around the bar. Sentence 2: At day's end, the notes the guests made are destroyed for secrecy. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: you just need to get the you need to get the right mix of soil so that it doesn't dry out Sentence 2: The guys have never advertised products of any kind. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Theory and Evidence on Saving in Low-Income Households. Sentence 2: Notting Hill has narration that is done in a high nasal voice.  Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
N