Goal orientation question

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A Goal orientation question requires a long answer. Goal orientation questions are formed according to the following abstract specification: "What are the motives or goals behind an agent's action?". An example of goal orientation question would be: "Why did you put decision latency on the y-axis?" [1][2]


-Explainer: ["So it's called a scanning tunneling microscope.", 'And not only can you see the atoms,', 'but you can move them around.', 'Atoms are kind of sticky.', 'You can actually build things using this instrument', 'with actual individual atoms.', 'So if I gave you that machine, 'would you want to make something?', 'Would you want to look at something very carefully?']
-Explainee: ['I would want to make a unicorn out of atoms.']
-Explainer: ['You are definitely a second grader! [laughing]', 'My daughter would probably answer the exact same way.', 'A unicorn would be awesome.']
-Explainee: [Why do you study stuff so small?]---> Goal orientation question 
-Explainer: ['I study it because objects that are that small', 'have really interesting properties.', 'They behave completely different than objects that are big.', 'And because of that,', 'we can build really cool things with them.', 'Like really fast computers, for example,', 'or new types of batteries or new types of solar cells.', 'And a lot of nanotechnology', 'is kind of like playing with Legos.', 'You take these small objects', 'and you put them together to build something new.', "Something interesting that no one's built before.", "It's like Legos for scientists."]
-Explainee: ['Cool.']



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.‏