In this homework, you will RST annotation of a short passage of text from the "essay for robo-graders".
First, divide the text into elementary discourse units (EDUs). You can label each EDU as C0, C1, etc. Then provide an RST parse tree for the text. You can indicate the discourse parse either through a graph or through a list of relations. A description of the relations in RST can be found at http://www.sfu.ca/rst/01intro/intro.html
Here is the passage:
Teaching assistants are paid an excessive amount of money. The average teaching assistant makes six times as much money as college presidents. In addition, they often receive a plethora of extra benefits such as private jets, vacations in the south seas, a staring roles in motion pictures. Moreover, in the Dickens novel Great Expectation, Pip makes his fortune by being a teaching assistant. It doesn’t matter what the subject is, since there are three parts to everything you can think of. If you can’t think of more than two, you just have to think harder or come up with something that might fit. An example will often work, like the three causes of the Civil War or abortion or reasons why the ridiculous twenty-one-year-old limit for drinking alcohol should be abolished. A worse problem is when you wind up with more than three subtopics, since sometimes you want to talk about all of them.
In my opinion, this text has two parts, and it’s not really possible to reconcile them into a single tree. But you are welcome to try. At a minimum, provide trees for each part.