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: This effect depends in part on how the borrowed funds are used. Sentence 2: Borrowed funds produce many effects  Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: This is the only city in the world to have been the capital of both an Islamic and a Christian empire. Sentence 2: No Christian empire was ever based in this city. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Indeed, many small and furry animals tend to be funny and, if you squint, resemble genitalia taken disturbingly out of context and scampering about the place. Sentence 2: I don't like to complain but there are still things that need to change. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION:
N