Request/Directive question

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?"

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.']