Comparison question

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A Comparison question requires a long answer. Comparison questions are formed according to the following abstract specification: "How is X similar to Y? How is X different from F?". An example of Comparison question would be: "What is the difference between a t test and an F test?"[1] [2]

-Explainer: [So what's the connection between neutron stars and black holes?] ---> Comparison question
-Explainee: ['So, as I understand it,', "a black hole is sort of like a neutron star's big brother.", "It's more intense, though.", 'If you have so much matter when a star is collapsing', "that it can't hold itself up, it collapses to a black hole,", 'and those are so dense that space-time breaks down', 'in some way or another.']
-Explainer: ['Black holes are so amazing', 'that when the neutron star stops', "and there's something actually there.", "There's material there.", "If it's so heavy it becomes a black hole,", 'so it keeps falling,', 'once the event horizon of the black hole forms,', 'which is the shadow,', "the curve that's so strong that not even light can escape,", 'the material keeps falling.', 'And like you said, maybe space-time breaks down', 'right at the center there, but whatever happens,', "the star's gone, that black hole is empty.", 'So in a weird way black holes are a place and not a thing.']
-Explainee: ['So is there a sensible way to talk', "about what's inside a black hole,", 'or is that, should you think of it', 'as there is no space-time inside?']



Notes

  1. Graesser, A. C., & Person, N. K. (1994). Question asking during tutoring. American educational research journal, 31(1), 104-137.‏
  2. Nielsen, R. D., Buckingham, J., Knoll, G., Marsh, B., & Palen, L. (2008, September). A taxonomy of questions for question generation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge.‏