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: Among themselves they speak a nasal, old-fashioned French, accented in a way that reminds visiting Parisians of French-Canadian speech. Sentence 2: They were donated to the museum by the artist in their will. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Were the Postal Service to be allowed to set rates under contracts, or to bid for business, it would need costs by customer. Sentence 2: No one acts in the place of unconfirmed presidential appointees.   Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: But she was interrupted. Sentence 2: Bonnieux has a grand view of Coulon Valley. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION:
N

