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 countryside, villages, and towns of Flanders, Picardy, Alsace, and Lorraine bear the scars of many wars. Sentence 2: He lived abroad. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Semans says she wrote that line into the narrative after she had told a lot of people, including her parents, about the spot. Sentence 2: Semans gave her main character a birthmark on her leg to match the author's own. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: lots of people yeah yeah Sentence 2: Are they over .500 win percentage? Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N