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: However, at the risk of being labeled a troglodyte, may I suggest that if you scratch the surface of that picture you might find that a few rays of sunshine still remain for hard copy mail. Sentence 2: It was hard to derive a full sky in his calculations. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Once a cathedral, the 13th-century Basilique Notre-Dame can be hard to find among the narrow cobbled streets of the old town. Sentence 2: The Basilique Notre-Dame was almost demolished by a powerful earthquake in the 17th century. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Frenzied fans would pack this very bridge for a glimpse of their idols arriving in ornate medieval waterborne equivalents of the modern stretch limousine. Sentence 2: Crazy fans fill the bridge for a chance to take a peek at their idols in ornate medieval equivalents of a limousine. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
Y