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: oh i i've seen that yeah Sentence 2: A couple of bike riders jumped their bikes over ditches around the rock. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: These results exceeded our target of $22 billion and were greater than that of the previous three fiscal years, as illustrated in the following graphic. Sentence 2: The goal was to generate $45 billion, but fell short of the target sum and failed to outperform previous tallies.  Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: That's why ideally CNBC would feature nothing but informative pieces on publicly traded companies, with occasional glances at the overall economic climate. Sentence 2: In fact, CNBC features mostly shows about the general economy. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION:
Y

