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: Tax the Knickers Off Your Grandchildren, by Steven E. Landsburg, seems less like a well-reasoned editorial on economics than a weak rationalization for shortsightedness. Sentence 2: People are still unaware of the problems here. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: A canal passes right through the park, so you can reach La Villette byaboat from central Paris (a three-hour trip; see page 26). Sentence 2: Their hands were clean. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: It was to be Peace, not War!  Sentence 2: There are more poor people in California requiring legal services than in any other state. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION:
N