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: The effect of these stories from the nether regions of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been like crying wolf. Sentence 2: These stories have had the effect of crying wolf. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: To meet our first objective, we reviewed the experiences of leading public sector organizations that were successfully changing their management and accountability practices to be more results-oriented. Sentence 2: I'm going to haul him to the local police station by the scruff of his neck. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: yes but it wasn't quite business but to give the the students um an made you feel like you were the authority i felt like if i came in just in jeans or tattered clothes that i didn't have as good control over the class Sentence 2: I wouldn't have been able to control my class while wearing tattered clothing. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
Y