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: 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 would have been pleasant to get even with Conrad. Sentence 2: Going with Conrad would be torture. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The Church of the Pater Noster is where he is said to have taught the disciples the Lord's Prayer, and around the cloisters of the adjoining convent there are tiled panels bearing the famous w ords in almost every world language. Sentence 2: Fauchon and Hediard are in partnership in the grocery business. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
N