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: Why not give discounts based on cost avoidances promised in a previous rate or classification case but which savings were never captured by the Postal Service? Sentence 2: All the previous rates did not have any cost avoidances. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: and uh essentially the cafeteria plans are programs where the company makes available a a different uh uh different packages of benefits you you know you can pick the kind of insurance you want and the kind of dental coverage and the kind of vacation policy you want an and all of these different things and you pick the ones that you want as long as the total cost to the company essentially the total cost to the company fits you know within their guidelines so every employee gets the same dollar amount of benefits but they can pick them from different whatever is most important to them Sentence 2: This point that you raised is a good idea, I don't feel intruded unlike with your first suggestion. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: but still sort of up in that general area of the country so you can probably see them sometimes Sentence 2: It is impossible to see them, even from those parts of the country. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
Y