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: Why not give discounts based on cost avoidances promised in a previous rate or classification case but which savings were never captured by the Postal Service? Sentence 2: All the previous rates did not have any cost avoidances. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Some tickets to The Phantom Menace will, indeed, be sold in advance--and no doubt be snapped up by scalpers. Sentence 2: By the 19th century, Borneo became extremely developed with state of the art streets and infrastructure. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: John left me, and a few minutes later I saw him from my window walking slowly across the grass arm in arm with Cynthia Murdoch.  Sentence 2: What days will early voting be in effect for the election? Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N