Request/Directive question

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Request/Directive questions are formed according to the following abstract specification: "The speaker wants the listener to perform an action". An example of Request/Directive question would be: "Would you add those numbers together?" [1]


Example (1):

-Explainee: ["I'm in my first year of a PhD in Computer Science", "and I'm studying natural language processing", 'and machine learning.']
-Explainer: [So would you mind telling me a bit about what you've been working on or interested in lately?] ---> Request/Directive question
-Explainee: ["I've been looking at understanding persuasion", 'in online text and the ways that we might be able to', 'automatically detect the intent behind that persuasion', "or who it's targeted at", 'and what makes effective persuasive techniques.']

Example (2):

-Explainer: ['I think that people forget that you can work', 'with the notes you already have by just rearranging them,', 'just the simple idea of inversion,', 'inversion of the simple triad, of F major.', "♪I once was lost and now I'm found ♪", '♪ Was blind ♪', '♪ But now I see ♪', Now how home do I want to go here, you know?', 'Is there another verse to come?']
-Explainee: ['Right.']
-Explainer: ['Because I can delay the gratification of going home.', 'First of all, just by using inversions,', 'even before we add the notes to the chord.', 'One thing that I was very joyful to discover', 'is that every single melody note', 'works with every single base note.']
-Explainee: [Would you care to demonstrate that?] ---> Request/Directive question
-Explainer: ['Yeah. so this is the note F.']
-Explainee: ['Yeah.']




Notes

  1. Graesser, A. C., & Person, N. K. (1994). Question asking during tutoring. American educational research journal, 31(1), 104-137.‏