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: Defenders argue that it's less idiotic than the current Medicare policy of subsidizing physician training, which has exacerbated the surplus. Sentence 2: Supporters counter this policy is less asinine than the current one. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Four decades later, Penderecki has joined the ranks of those who renounce the achievements of his generation; Berio remains unabashedly highbrow and staunchly atonal, a true avant-gardist. Sentence 2: Fourty years later, Penderecki decided to open a cafe. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Definitions will be clarified for measures to be used in 2003 for quantifying the reach of web-based legal education and pro se assistance models. Sentence 2: The Duomo is the largest cathedral in Italy. Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
N