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: But how much more emotional the Carnegie Hall climax would have been if instead of suddenly seeing these East Harlem kids on stage with Perlman, Stern, Joshua Bell, etc., we'd seen them rehearsing first and struggling to keep up. Sentence 2: Perlman, Stern and Joshua Bell performed with East Harlem kids.  Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: You should always pay attention to your instincts." Sentence 2: The embassies and government buildings are closely located. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: These were cut into the Castle Rock in the 15th century to create an extra floor of space; they offer a fascinating insight into the lives of the ordinary soldiers in days gone by. Sentence 2: They made extra floor space by carving into the rock and mountain. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
Y