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: Made from a mixture of red wine, lemon and orange juice and peel, brandy, and mineral water with ice, it may strike you as too heavy to be consumed with a meal. Sentence 2: They joked about their appearances upon meeting. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: yeah well the only thing that might save him is that in the backs of their minds they may think that they don't want to hurt him permanently Sentence 2: Government saving and government spending on retirement programs are proportional. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: And what did he say?  Sentence 2: What did he say? Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION:
Y