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.

Sentence 1: And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up. Sentence 2: Modern Scots are prohibited from being included in the gallery. Genre: travel.
N

Sentence 1: To celebrate Bastille Day (14 July) or the 1944 Liberation (25August), blue, white, and red laser beams are bounced off the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and Hotel de Ville. Sentence 2: The laser beam light event takes place at night.  Genre: travel.
Y

Sentence 1: To my mind, though, Jewish toughness of the sort that was in evidence in Entebbe, Uganda, 22 years ago, when armed Jews flew thousands of miles to rescue Jewish innocents from death, was one of the great moments in post-Holocaust Jewish history--a statement to the world that Jews will no longer sit idly by and watch themselves being oppressed. Sentence 2: It's surprising to think they could have restored it to new condition. Genre: slate.

N

