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: Although unified budget surpluses increase national saving available for private investment, increasing federal spending on infrastructure, if properly designed and administered, can be another way to increase national saving and investment. Sentence 2: There is no way to determine the reliability of a system. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: You saw him die and were dragged off with us and his body. Sentence 2: They are overcrowded because there are a lot of rapists in there.   Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: well um the budget's an interesting issue uh particularly since i'm pretty much a libertarian and an anachro libertarian at that uh so i would basically say the way to fix the budget is to uh cut and eliminate taxes charge user fees for things that uh are absolutely necessary and to be allocated fairly that way and um i'd say ninety percent of the budget has no business being there Sentence 2: I think that ninety percent of the budget is not necessary. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
Y