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Contents 1. Abstractive Summaries 1 1.1. Short Story 1 1.2. Movie 8 2. Extractive Summaries 19 2.1. Short Story 19 2.2. Movie 22 3. Ground Truth 22 3.1. Movie 22 3.2. Short Story 22 4. Movie (full movie) 23 5. Short Story (all paragraphs) 23

1. Abstractive Summaries 1.1. Short Story. Below you can find the abstractive summaries for each of the nodes of the context tree used for the short story; depicted in Figure 1. With bold we highlight the ones that received the most votes in the upward phase:

Figure 1. The context tree used for the short story, with each node labeled.

• Node R (1) Police officers Norm Bennis and Susanna “Suze” Maria Figueroa are somewhat close both on and off duty. They are both currently at an inquiry on their behavior one day after a fire and rescue situation. The day before a woman’s drunken, abusive husband started a fire in their house and was subsequently knocked out by the woman’s brother. Both officers rescued the woman, her brother and her child but left the drunken man to die in the fire. Bennis and Suze’s story’s conflict on the status of the unconscious man – one claiming he felt cold and one claiming he felt warm. The inquiry’s purpose is to deter- mine if Suze knowingly left the man to die and whether she should keep her badge. Suze uses two cups of water, one hot and one cold, to demonstrate 1 2 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

that temperature is relatively to the warmth of one’s hands. Having proved her innocence she goes out on a post Valentine’s day date with Bennis. (2) The story opens with two police officers namely Norm Bennis and Suze who got into trouble while saving a baby from a fire scene. There share a good relation besides professional working atmosphere. Though two officers helped each other in the field, however they failed to come up with identical report . As a result, things started becoming tough for both of them, resulting in trouble. During the board meeting Suze tries all means to explain by showing demonstration but she failed to convince the board. (3) Officers Figueroa and Bennis responded to a distress call to find a house on fire and a man running out the front door engulfed in flames. Bennis pursued the man to put him out with handfuls of snow. This becomes relevant later as they are put on trial for conflicting reports, Figueroa cites that a dead man left within the house could have felt warm to one officer and cold to another based off of their hand temperatures at the time of touching him. This is the sticking point of the trial, as there are accusations of the man not being dead upon arrival at the scene. (4) Sue and Bennis are officers on the police force. They are partners and not romantically involved. They were called to a fire on February 14. It was a snowy day They arrived to the scene and a man who was on fire burst out of the house. Officer Bennis grabbed the man and tackled him to the snow trying to put out the fire. Sue rushed into the house. Bennis followed behind. They found a person on the floor and felt her head. She felt dead. They heard a baby scream so they ran to the baby. They were able to rescue the baby and leave the buildind with small wounds. After the incident was over their Deputy, Wardron, called them in and was reviewing the case. He thought they body they left could have still been alive. The two officers could be fired for this. Sue tried defending herself be showing him two cups of water, one hot and one cold, to show how touch is relative. She defended her position. • Node A1 (1) Officers Susanna Maria Figueroa (“Suze”) and Norm Bennis, her partner on the force and mentor, have a good working relationship and respectful personal association. On the night of Valentine’s Day, they responded to a disturbance. Upon arrival at the residence, a man fled the house, his back and head on fire. While Suze called for backup, Bennis pursued the burning man and attempted to put out the flames with handfuls of snow. Suze and Bennis are now under inquiry for the event. Suze is accused of leaving a man to die at the scene; she denies this accusation, and Bennis supports her, at least on the point that she would never knowingly leave someone to die. Their reports of the event, though, differ enough to warrant further inquiry. During Suze’s testimony, one of the panel members, Wardron, was excessively critical of her. Their commander, Sazerac, informs Suze that her job as an officer is in jeopardy because of the incident. (2) Officer Bennis took Officer Figueroa under his wing when she joined the force, of which she is very grateful for. The two have developed a strong professional and personal bond inside and outside of work, respectively. One day, while on patrol, they received a distress call, sending them to a house fire. There has been some dispute as to what exactly happened once the officers arrived at the scene, as their stories were not identical. Figueroa is being fingered as not doing all she could to save someone’s life, while she counters that the person was ”matter-of-factly” deceased. Her fate is being discussed by Commander Sazerac and the hearing board members, who are accusing Figueroa of a cover-up; she thinks he is out to get her. (3) Officers Norm Bennis and Suze Figueroa are partners on the Chicago police force. They have a good working relationship and personal friendship off the job as well, but are not romantically involved. Right now, they find themselves at odds however, in a waiting room as a board of inquiry investigates an incident that occured on the snowy night of Feb 14th. That night the two officers were dispatched after a frantic woman reported a CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 3

fire. The two arrived at the scene, where the house at the address (on Chestnut) was clearly on fire. Bennis raced up the steps to the home, and was preparing to kick the door in when a frantic man, ablaze, ran past him and down the steps. Bennis tackled the man outside and dropped him into the snow, using snow to cool the burns on the man’s body. The inquiry includes Commander Sazerac and board member Wardron. There is a lot at stake here, up to and including possible termination and prosecution of the officers. (4) Suze Figueroa and Norm Bennis are partners on the police force. An incident occured that changed all of that. Suze and Norm responded to a distress call to find a man on fire. Norm put the fire out. Norm and Suze’s reports differed enough that a investigation was launched into the incident. The Board and Commander Sazerac are questioning them attempting to find out if the man was dead when they arrived or not. • Node A2 (1) Officer’s Bennis and Figueroa arrive at a house fire. They are a bit late getting in due to stalled cars. Figueroa saves a woman and Bennis joins her, they go further in and notice a man and hear a baby crying. The man feels cold to Figueroa and so they go after the baby. Bennis grabs the baby and leaves while Figeuroa looks around for other persons, she finds noone-leaves just in time and sustains burns. Later at a hearing Wardron is concerned that the man was in fact not dead, and Bennis’s testifies that he still felt warm to him. Sazerac tries to defend Figeuroa but is silenced by Wardron. (2) A husband and wife get into a fight. Although the woman’s brother intervenes, the hus- band sets the house on fire. The woman’s brother responds by knocking the husband unconscious. Officers Bennis and Figueroa respond to the house fire. Officer Figueroa finds a woman trapped inside and rescues her. She tells Officer Bennis that there is an- other person in the house. Both officers rush back into the house. They find this person but determine he is is dead. They hear the cry of a baby and rescue it. Later, there is an investigation into the actions of Officers Bennis and Figueroa, as it is not clear if the man they left behind in the burning house was still alive. Commander Sazerac, their com- manding officer, is at the meeting and tries to come to the defense of Officer Figueroa. He knows her work and believes she would not leave a live person behind. However, Wardron makes it clear that Commander Sazerac’s assistance is not needed. (3) Two officers are part of a rescue effort at an apartment fire. They save a woman and a baby but are still questioned about their actions. A member of the board insists that they should have saved a mans life when the officers actually thought he was dead. The officers have conflicting stories leading to suspicion. The deceased man was a drunk, abusive husband who started the fire in the first place. (4) Policeman Norm Bennis and Policewoman Susanna Maria Figueroa are on the scene of a fire. Officer Figueroa finds a female trapped by flames, panicking. She brought the woman to safety and realizied that there was another person within the apartment. Once she got the woman to safety, she told Officer Bennis there was another person still inside and both of them headed back into the flames. Once inside, they heard the sound of a baby crying. The man was dead, and Officer Bennis went after the child. He grabbed the girl, and ran out. Officer Figueroa stayed behind to check for any more children and determined there was only one child in the apartment. She ran out of the front door just as the ceiling started to collapse. The police get there and save victims, however there asshole shift commander brings them up on charges. He runs shit with an iron fist. He brings them on trial because of conflicting stories. • Node A3 (1) Mr. Molitor had died in a fire. During this fire, two officers , Officer Susanna Maria Figueroa and Officer Norm Bennis, attempted to rescue Mr. Molitor. They both stated that each one felt different temperatures when they touched Mr. Molitor. Officer Figueroa set up an experiment using two styrofoam cups, one with hot water, the other with cold. She was attempting to show how two people can touch the same victim and feel different temperatures. 4 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

After proving this fact, Officer Bennis started to recall a story about a burglar who was arrested for robbery. This burglar robbed a house and then walked backwards through the snow attempting to divert police of his trail. The burglar self-incriminated himself when he was asked about the tracks, which he was not suppose to know about. After Bennis and Figueroa discussed the case, Bennis asks Figueroa out to dinner since they missed Valentine’s Day. They have been secretly dating for some time now. (2) Figueroa is trying to explain the relativity aspect of police work to her superior, Wardon. She uses a demonstration involving putting your hand in two different temperature cups of water. This has an applied aspect that is pertinent to the body that was found in the case they are discussing. Figueroa is trying to defend herself from accusations of wrong-doing. (3) Officer Figueroa explains to the Warden and Bennis that the body would feel different depending on the temperature of the hand of the person who touched. She says this explains the discrepency between what she and bennis felt, at different times. She then talks about how the robber is incompetent because he left tracks outside, and agrees to go out on a date with Bennis. (4) Officer ”Suze” Figueroa has an idea in relation to a case they’re looking at. She brings in two cups of water, one hot and one cold. She tells Officer Wardron to put two fingers from each hand in the cups. She then explains that temperature is relative not fixed. If you were to feel a body, it would feel hot or cold depending on the temperature your fingers are at. After that, she brings up a robbery she knew of where a robber walked backwards from a home burglary, thinking that the cops would be confused by the backwards tracks in the snow. He was surprised when they caught him. • Node B1 (1) Officer Norm Bennis was Susanna (Suze) Figueroa’s mentor and patrol partner. He treated her well and helped her early in her career to get through the rigors of the job. Something happened to the two of them on February 14th that has Suze frightened and norm feeling very bad he got them in trouble. Right now they wait outside while down the hall an inquiry is being conducted. (2) Susie is a fairly new policewoman and her partner is Norm Bennis who is also her mentor. They hit it off as partners and Susie is divorced and Norm is single although Norm has had allot of girlfriends. Susie respected Norm as a policeman and looked up to him, she did not want to become involved romantically with him. They sometimes would go for a beer after work and recently they went to a movie. There was an incident while they were on duty, they are both now at the hospital waiting room while there is an investigation going on. (3) Suze is angry at Norm over the incident. She is also upset that he has stuck to his guns after the incident. They have a great working relationship, as well as a professional personal relationship. Suze is grateful to Norm for taking her under his wing. Now they are facing serious inquiry over the incident. (4) Suze and Norm are partners on the police force. Norm was Suze’s mentor and never gave her a hard time for not knowing everything and for being small. Norm thought that Suze was great back up. Lately Norm and Suze have been going to a movie after their shift instead of the bar with the other cops in the first district. Suze and Norm are both frightened and sitting in a room as far away from each other as possible. There is a roundtable inquiry going on down the hall. The reports from the fire department, the preliminary findings of the medical examiner, and the detectives. These reports only explain what happened after the incident. Suze and Norm have different stories of what happened. • Node B2 (1) Commander Sazerac notifies Officer Susanna Maria Figueroa that she is under investigation for possibly abandoning a citizen who burned to death. Officer Figueroa claims that the citizen was already dead but her story didn’t match Officer Bennis. As Officer Figueroa stands before the board explaining her CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 5

side of the story, one of the board members, Mr Wardron seems to be very critical of her. (2) Officer Susanna Maria Figueroa was being accused by Commander Sazerac of trying to cover up the fact that she had left a person to die. She claimed the person was already dead. She was not getting much help from her fellow officer, Bennis. The ADS, Wardron, who looked like Mike Ditka, was taking her testimony about the night that the incident happened. Suze was frightened as she thought that this could mean being fired from her job as a police officer. She had a bad feeling that Wardron was out to get her and did not like female officers. (3) Officers’ Figueroa and Bennis are partners on the Chicago police force. It was Valentine’s Day and there was a large snowstorm that caused their mid (second) shift duty to be very very busy, responding to traffic issues. It is apparent that there was some incident involving fire where they came upon a dead body. Officer Figueroa and her partner Bennis wrote reports of the fire event that had a slight enough variations on the status of the person in the fire that a board was convened to discover whether Figueroa was negligent in the course of her duty and perhaps the body was not deceased when she discovered it during the fire. She is very distressed by this as being a police officer has always been her dream. As the hearing begins, she comes to find that one of the hearing board members appears to be slightly hostile, if not to her personally, then to female officers in general. (4) Apparently a couple of officers made the wrong judgement on whether a person was dead or not. One of the officers is sticking up for the one that pronounced the person dead saying that the officer would never turn their back on a person they thought to be alive. One of the officers believe that someone else in the department is out to get her but she isn’t sure if that is true or not. • Node B3 (1) Figueroa and her partner Bennis are cops out on patrol on a very snowy night. They get a call about a woman screaming for help. Despite the treacherous driving, Figueroa gets them to the address. The house in question is obviously on fire. While Figueroa is on the radio for help, Bennis approaches the door to the house. Just as he’s about to kick it open, a man crashes through, his hair and jacket aflame. Bennis tackles him into the snow to put the flames out and then tries to put snow on the obvious burns on the man’s head and torso. (2) Two police officers got a distress call from the police station about a woman screaming for help. It was snowing on their way to the call and the roads were treacherous on the way. They encountered many hazards and it took them longer to reach the scene than normal. Once they got there a man came running out of the house on fire and an officer rolled him around in the snow to put the fire out. (3) Figueroa and Bennis report to a woman’s distress call, while dealing with bad roads due to the snow. Arriving at the scene, Bennis procedes inside and is confronted with a man on fire. The man rushes outside and Bennis pursues and tackles him to put out the fire. Bennis then grabs handfuls of snow and puts them on the victims face to help the charred flesh and prevent further damage. (4) At 2140 hours, squad car 33 received a radio message that there was a disturbance at 817 west on Chestnut. There was a lot of snow and the driver, Officer Figueroa was having some trouble. The other officer with her, Officer Bennis, was answering the radio. Sine it took a while to get to the disturbance (a woman screaming for help), the radio came on again and Bennis had to explain that the snow was slowing them down. They pulled up in front of the building and before they could enter, Figueroa saw smoke coming out of around the top of the door. Quickly, a man came screaming out of the apartment and had his hair and jacket on fire. He ran past the officers and down the stair to get outside. Bennis followed and helped put out the flames with snow. • Node B4 (1) Officer Norm Bennis and Officer Susanna Maria Figueroa were at the scene of a fire. Officer Figueroa came across a woman trapped within the flames, 6 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

panicking. She brought the woman to safety and noticed there was another person within the apartment. Once she got the woman to safety, she told Officer Bennis there was another person still inside and both of them headed back into the flames. Once inside, they heard the sound of a baby crying. The man was dead, and Officer Bennis went after the child. He grabbed the girl, and ran out. Officer Figueroa stayed behind to check for any more children and determined there was only one child in the apartment. She ran out of the front door just as the ceiling started to collapse. (2) There is a fire, and Figueroa radioed it in, the apartment building is goign up in flames. Figueroa goes in, trying to save people. She comes across a woman, who is severely burned and gets her to safety, crawling over a dead body. The hallway is still undamaged by fire, and tells the woman to go tell people about the fire to get out. Her and Bennis find a man inside, but the man is dead. She goes in the apartment to get a child to rescue Figuera goes in to rescue the child, and with one leap of effort makes it out, but does not have time to warn people. (3) Two police officers are rescuing people from a burning building. They manage to save a burned woman, and shortly after that they hear a baby cry. They have some confusion about the amount of children, but determine that there is only one. Through the thick smoke they rescue the child and escape the fire. They leave behind the body of a dead man though that they were not able to save. (4) As Figueroa was scanning the apartment that was on fire, she heard a woman screaming. The woman was disoriented and hesitant to go with her, but Figueroa managed to get hear out of her apartment, even though the woman had started to get burned. Figueroa spotted Bennis coming down the stars and told him there was an unconscious man still in the apartment, and as they went in, the found he was dead. They searched for children and only found one crib and toys for one child, so they got the little girl inside the crib and took her out to safety. Figueroa left the apartment, hair singed, and went to warn upstairs neighbors. • Node B5 (1) An apartment was on fire and the Fire department were slow to arrive due to stalled cars blocking the roads. Officers Figueroa and Bennis had managed to evacuate most of the tenants safely despite the danger to themselves and officer Figueroa actually suffering burns. Deputy Waldron is being very hard headed and refuses to listen to the Commander Sezerac, preferring instead to believe that Officers Figueroa and Bennis are somehow at fault. The Commander tries to impress upon Waldron that these are exemplary officers who should be praised for their bravery and not accused with no evidence whatsoever. (2) Commander Sazerac is trying to explain in what appears to be a court hearing about the heroic efforts of two officers which were Figueroa and Bennis to the board member Wardron. Wardron was not interested in their efforts, only their conflicting stories. The fire department had trouble getting to the scene because of stalled cars blocking the entrance. The two officers helped saved many lives and worked past their normal hours. The officers were more concerned with the cause of the fire. The fire was apparently caused by a dispute in a family where drinking was involved. Many alcoholic containers were found amongst the burnt remnants. (3) A fire started in an apartment in an apartment building. The fire is supposedly started after Mr Molitor, his wife and the wife’s brother were drinking and fighting. Mr. Molitor is known to be dead after the fire. Two police officers, Bennis and Figueroa are questioned about the fire and their possible involvement by Deputy Wardron but Figueroa claims that she got to the situation midway. Commander Sazerac and Officer Bennis try to help Figueroa by telling Deputy Wardron about the role played by Figueroa in saving lives of the other people in the building. (4) Officers Bennis and Figueroa find out that no good deed goes unpunished after saving the residents of an apartment building where a murder may have taken place. Under CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 7

investigation by Wardron and the internal affairs board, their heroism and the support of Commander Sazerac seem to count for nothing as Waldron tries to ruin their careers and send them to jail. Waldron runs the hearing with an iron fist, intent on proving that the officers are guilty of wrongdoing. • Node B6 (1) At around 9 PM Mr. Molitor began assaulting his wife and brother. He then proceeded to douse the house in lighter fluid and light it. Mr. Moli- tor’s brother responded by knocking him out with a blow to the head from a chair. Then, Mr. Molitor’s brother’s hair caught on fire and as he ran outside Officers Figueroa and Bennis were arriving on the scene. Later, a discussion between Officers Bennis and Figueroa, Wardron and Commander Sazerac oc- curs. Wardron is critical of Officer Bennis for not getting Mr. Molitor out of the burning house while Bennis saved the baby. While Figueroa maintains that Mr. Molitor was dead before the house burned down, Bennis corrects her by revealing that he was just knocked out. Sazerac begins analyzing the scene and comes to conclusion that there is something wrong, but exactly what he does not know. Figueroa would not have let a man burn to death willingly and Sazerac had been commander too long to make an incorrect judgement about his officers. (2) A domestic dispute between a husband and wife turns into a house fire as the crazed husband prays lighter fluid all over his house and lights it after his own brother tried to stop him from beating his wife. The neighbors called the police and Officers Figueroa and Dennis showed up and are now giving conflicting details about the incident to Commander Sazerac. There is confusion about whether the husband was dead or alive when he was left in the house as it burned. (3) At nine, an altercation happens between a wife and her husband, who started out by yelling but escalated into hitting his wife. His wife and her brother tried to fight back, largely unsuccessfully, and then the husband lights the house on fire. The wife tried to crawl out of the house, but was too dazed, and the brother knocked the husband out with a chair, then ran out after his hair caught fire, intercepted by Bennis, outside. Wardron tells Figueroa that she should have tried to get Mr. Molitor out of the house, but she replies she knew he was dead and cold. Wardron asks Bennis if he was, and Bennis reluctantly answers that he wav still warm. Sazerac tries to defend Figueroa, but Wardron interrupts him. Sazerac watches on sourly, knowing Figueroa wouldn’t have left a man to die. He trusts his judgment of her, and if anything her problem with her was she got into danger too much. (4) There is a fight between a husband and wife. The husband sets the house on fire. The woman’s brother intervenes by hitting the husband with a chair. The husband collapses. The brother runs out of the house just as Suze and Bennis arrive. Bennis intercepts the brother, who is carrying a baby. Then, Suze and Bennis enter the house. They find the husband on the floor. They determine that he was already dead, so they leave him. Later, Suze is accused of misconduct by not trying to save the man. Bennis testifies that the man’s body was still warm. At the inquest, Sazerac knows that Suze is innocent and listens closely to the testimony trying to find a way to defend her. • Node B7 (1) Figueroa explained the phenomenon of feeling cold and hot as relative rather than concrete. She was explaining this to her superior officers. She used hot water and cold water to demonstrate. There must have been someone in the past crime scene that was dead and felt different temperatures to two different cops. Bennis remembered a different case after this about a robber who tried to track backward footprints in the snow and then knew too much about the tracks when he was caught. (2) Figueroa shows the deputy Wardrom with two cups of water that depending on the tem- perature of your skin initially it’ll feel temperatures different. The night of the fire, Officer 8 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

Bennis had patted snow all over the brother, outdoors, and then ran back into the burning apartment. While he was doing that, I was pulling the woman out of the kitchen. She was hot to the touch and felt like she was starting to blister. When I came back, I felt along the hot wall. The instant Officer Bennis returned from outside, we both touched Mr. Molitor. (3) Wardon was explaining the case to the higher ups. Officer Figueroa chimed in with a visual demonstration that was easier to understand. She had two cups of water, one hot, one cold. She asked Commander Sazerac to help her with the demo. She had him put his fingers in both cups and then feel her arm, they were both hot and cold to the touch. She then begins to tell a story about how a criminal self-incriminated himself. (4) There was a fire where A Mr. Molitor perished. Officer Figuoeroa produced a demonstra- tion using two styrofoam cups to show that when both she and Officer Bennis touched the victem they felt his skin to be oppisite tempatures. She had been the fire thus felt the decesed’s body hot, Officer Dennis had just came from outside where he had touched snow and felt the decedes skin as cold. Once she proved this Officer Bennis broke into a story about a burgler robbing a house and then walking backwards from the house the snow hoping the p[olice would think it was an inside job. He finished his storyby saying the burgler was areested and when asked about the burglery he asked about the tracks, when he shouldnt have known about any tracks. • Node B8 (1) Officer Susanna Maria Figueroa (Suze) and Officer Norm Bennis are having a conversation about a robbery. A robber broke into someone’s house and stole a bunch of household items such as tv and boom box. They’re laughing at the criminal. There was snow outside and the tracks led right to where he was. The criminal was surprised that he got caught. He thought he plan of facing backward leaving the building would be enough to escape detection. Then, Bennis looked around to make sure no one was looking and put his arm around Figueroa. He says that he wants to take her out to dinner because they missed Valentine’s Day. (2) Commander Sazerac and Officer Bennis are explaining to Officer Figeroa (the love interest of Bennis) about a prior case of theft that was similar to the current arson case they are working on. They describe the perpetrator as using similar tactics in both cases. Sazerac leaves, and Bennis asks Figueroa to dinner to make up for missing Valentine’s Day. (3) This first part of the novel I read has Officer Norm Bennis talking about an individual in the neighborhood that is not named. The individual has apparently been stealing minor objects. The next part has Officer Susanna Maria Figueroa (Suze) also involved in the conversation about this person. Officer Norm Bennis talks to Officer Susanna Maria Figueroa about some crime. Suze is asked out to dinner also by Officer Norm Bennis. (4) A burglar steals a few things. Some kids realize there are tracks in the snow and call the cops. The cops get a guy who they have suspected has been stealing for a while and he wants to know about the prints in the snow but he isn’t supposed to know about it. Bennis and Figueroa talk about the case and Bennis tells about that they know it was an outside job to the suspect and the suspect ends up making himself guilty. Bennis and Figueroa are secretly dating and decide to go to dinner since they missed Valentine’s day. 1.2. Movie. Below you can find the abstractive summaries for each of the nodes of the context tree used for the movie; depicted in Figure 2. With bold we highlight the ones that received the most votes in the upward phase: • Node R (1) Kristie is a teen aged girl caught in the middle of an old conflict between her scientist grandfather and her fundamentalist father. She appears to be deeply religious herself, but is constantly shut down and drowned out when she tries to discuss her beliefs with anyone. Her situation comes to a head when her grandfather dies alone, shortly after her father has (once again) forbidden her to ever see or speak to him again. She finds comfort in her own faith, but her CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 9

Figure 2. The context tree used for the movie, with each node labeled.

(also deeply religious) mother is shocked when she hears that faith articulated in terms of heaven being better than earth. The movie ends with Kristie dealing with the conflict between her own belief and understanding and that of others. (2) Kristie is a teenager who struggles with conflict between Christianity and acceptance by peers. She experiments with smoking and alcohol. Kristie tries to explain Christianity to friend Devan, but is ignored. Kristie meets friend Staci, then visits her grandfather, an agnostic who challenges her with science. Her parents forbid her to see her grandfather. A friend Alice tells Kristie to use an online program, JesusBuddy. Her friend April convinces Kristie to promote Christianity to her friends, which is met with rejection. Kristie’s grandfather dies, leading her to doubt about the nature of God. Kristie confronts April, whom she believes humiliated her. Kristie’s parents discover her alcohol abuse. She turns to faith, and meditates on death. She imagines Devan died in a car accident, but it was a dream. Kristie meets male friend Cameron. They discuss God and the future. A ghostly mountain lion appears and speaks. Kristie realizes she must choose faith over worldly self-interest. (3) This movie is about a girl named Kristie struggling with her religious upbringing. She begins the film trying to share her religious beliefs with her friend Devan, and other friends at school, but everyone denies Gods existence. One girl, Staci, goes as far as to point out the conundrum of worshiping an all knowing merciful god. This leads Kristie to question her faith. After her Grandfather’s death, she begins to spiral out of control, drinking and fighting back against her religion. After several confrontations with friends and family Kristie goes out to meet her Devan, whom she finds dead in the car. She places her hand upon her and heals her miraculously but it is proven to be a dream. (4) Kristie is a teenager from a religious background who is struggling with temptations like drinking and smoking, especially around rebellious friends like Devon. She tries to spread her faith to some of the people around her, but they reject Christianity. Kristie pushes her friends away and becomes angry at her Christian youth group. She begins to doubt her faith. When her grandfather passes away, Kristie suspects that supernatural forces caused him to die. She starts hanging out with Devon more often and thinks about having a more physical relationship with Cameron, a boy who likes her. When she is caught drinking, her mother grounds her and only wants her to hang out with a religious friend, April. Kristie dreams about getting text messages from the Devil and waking up a dead Devon with her hands. At the end, when Kristie is hanging out with Cameron, she receives a vision and must choose whether to serve herself or God. She chooses to serve God. • Node A1 (1) This movie is about a young girl named Kristie’s struggles with adolescence. She is at a conflicting point in here life where she is trying to figure out how 10 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

to deal with her faith, her friends, and other pressures such as drinking and smoking. Kristie’s friend Devan is an important part of her life, but she seems to be in strong disagreement with Kristie’s views about Christ and religion. Devan represents the darker path that Kristie is offered along her way through her younger years, and path that she will take will ultimately be her decision for better or for worse. (2) Kristie is an insecure teen struggling with a love of god and a need to fit in with friends. She wants to save her friend Devan that she wants to introduce to her religious side. She has hidden cigarettes and liquor in her room behind a Jesus photo. She is getting ready to go with Devan one morning and practices how she will tell Devan Jesus loves her too. She chooses the pack of cigarettes to take with her this morning, as a way to connect to her friend Devan. Devan is surprised that Kristie has the cigarettes and helps Kristie to light one, but distracted by a plane as she drives the car. Kristie begins to try to explain her stance with God... (3) Kristie is a young woman who is struggling with her own faith and the faith of her parents. She finds contrasts in her friends and her life, and also finds difficulty in mediating old drinking and smoking habits with her new found urge to live her life for Jesus and move on to better practices. We begin on her practicing her Christianity in front of a mirror, before she gives up and returns to her room, where she has stashed liquor and cigarettes behind a portrait of Jesus. Then she leaves with her friend Devan, a bad influence who wants to encourage Kristie back onto the path of drinking, smoking, fun and godlessness. (4) This indie film set in the 90’s follows a young girl named Kristie and her struggle with being a good Christian. She is struggling to be good, practicing saying ”Jesus loves you” in the mirror. There are signs of her struggles such as hidden alcohol and cigarettes. She gives in to temptation right before leaving for school, and decides to grab her cigarettes to take with her. Kristie is picked up by her friend Devan, for a ride to school. Kristie’s Mom lovingly yells out Christian reminders as Kristie rides away in Devan’s car. Devan is looking at the sky saying those aren’t jet trails, but are chemicals being sprayed. Kristie tries to show Devan that she is cool, and takes out a pack of cigarettes, opens it and lights one. Coughing the whole time she is smoking. Remembering her Mother’s reminders of their Christian faith, Kristie makes a half-hearted attempt to share her Christian message with Devan, only to be playfully chided and dismissed by Devan. • Node A2 (1) Kristie talks to her friend Staci about a guy who likes her, and then goes on a run to see her grandfather. Her grandfather is happy to see her, but has a strained relationship with Kristie’s father. She tries to witness to her grand- father about the love of Jesus, but he is only interested in quizzing her on science, specifically astronomy. This quizzing strains their relationship. Later, her father picks her up and is irritated that she was with her grandfather. He then begins to quiz her on Christianity, essentially the same way her grand- father did with astronomy. She is upset. Her father forbids her seeing her grandfather again. At home Kristie speaks to a friend Alice who suggests she chat with a bot, JesusBuddy for answers. JesusBuddy is not helpful, and refers her to a counselor. Her father calls her grandfather to tell him he will never see Kristie again. (2) This film focuses on Kristie and her faith. She loves Jesus and wants to share this with her grandfather, a scientist. Her family seems torn between science and religion. There is an ominous warning that the world may end at any time. Both her grandfather and her father lecture her harshly about their own doctrine. Kristie tries to please them both, but doesn’t succeed. These troubled events leave her searching for answers on the internet and reaching out to friends. (3) I did not really know how to answer the questions above because the parts I watched were different. The first one was Kristie with her grandfather at his work. He was very glad to see her and began speaking to her of the stars and a nova and the description of it. He CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 11

was most assuredly trying to avoid the subject of her father due to their disagreement. He also did not wish to speak of Jesus but said he loved Kristie and her father. She is trying very hard to get them back together. The second scene was Kristie’s father picking her up and he would not even call the grandfather, whom you assume is his father to get her to come out. He father then lectures her about how she spoke to her grandfather about Jesus and criticizes her for not saying the right thing. He then hounds her about the laws of Jesus and makes her recite them. (4) Kristie is a girl who was brought up on a religious background with some knowledge of science. After talking to a friend, Kristie takes a run, recounting her thoughts about Jesus and how that helps her. She eventually reaches her grandfather, who is a man deep in science. They have a somewhat heated discussion about religion and science, eventually taking a walk together. They grow closer, and the time becomes night where Kristie’s dad is impatiently watiing for her. Once in his truck, he drills her about her location and they proceed to have a very harsh argument about religious teachings. • Node A3 (1) April tells her friend Kristie about her relationship with Jesus and even con- vinces Kristie to tell her friends about Jesus, which she does. Kristie is met with resistance or flat out rejection from two of her friends. She then tries to tell Staci who challenges Kristie by pointing out the contradiction of an all- knowing and all-caring God. This causes Kristie to doubt her faith and seek answers from her creator. The next scene shows Kristie at her computer with a message from ”Jesus Buddy” who says he does not understand her ques- tion. Later Kristie is seen sitting on the steps of her former church smoking a cigarette. Although it is apparently ”Pop Pop’s” funeral, Kristie has chosen to exclude herself due to her recent rejection of her faith. She finally goes inside and they end up getting into an argument about who took Pop Pop from them. Kristie curses the Lord’s Plan and storms out of the church. (2) Kristie is a young adult in this film who is struggling to understand what she should believe regarding religion. She has discussions with several of her young adult friends who really, do not pay much attention to her, as she comes on very strong about her beliefs, however, her friend Staci challenges some of her statements about an all knowing and merciful god. This conversation then leads to a fairly typical rigorous discussion with her parents at a house of worship, where they have come to pay their last respects to a passing friend or family member. She is torn about what has happened in regards to the death and struggles openly in the discussion with her mother and father. (3) Kristie is a high school girl who, through the influence of her friend April, tries to witness to her friends about God with little success. Her friend Stacy causes her to question her beliefs by pointing out the contradiction between an all-knowing and merciful God. It seems that she sin everywhere as her beliefs fall apart culminating in the death of her grandfather. During his memorial service, Kristie clashes with her parents about what God’s plan is. (4) Kristie finds faith in a Christian god and like many born-again Christians, she’s excited to spread the word to her friends, even if her foundational understanding of what it is she actually believes in is a little shaky. Her friends react in various ways; some are interested, some uncertain, and others, Stacie for example, resolute in their skepticism. The loss of a loved one, her pop-pop, makes Kristie question her new-found faith. An already tense relationship with a mother who only wishes Kristie would act appropriately, shifts into a clash over whether Kristie should thank the Christian god for granting her the time she did have with her loved one, cursing that god for taking him away, or not believing in such a seemingly merciless god at all. • Node A4 (1) A young girl named Kristi is struggling with her religious beliefs and the death of her grandfather. She has conflict with her father, who is devout. Kristi starts drinking and confronts her friend April with the information that she 12 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

thinks her grandfather was killed. April explains to her that her grandfather killed himself. At night Kristi and her friend Devan go to a crime scene. They are joined by Cameron and begin drinking and discussing what might have happened. They see a sphere and begin talking about aliens but they are interrupted by a security guard. The security guard brings drunk Kristi home and her concerned parents call over her religious friend April. Her parents ground her and only want her to hang out with April from now on. When Kristi goes to her room, she sees that everything has been removed except for a bible and a picture of Jesus, and begins to cry. (2) Kristie is a sad screwed up girl who is strangled by the religious views of her family. With no room for self exploration and very poor examples of what Jesus and Christianity are really like she finds herself bound by religious rules and views they expect her to follow unquestionably. With no real friends to help her through and a curiosity about UFOs and the like she attempts to grapple with her grandfathers death believing surely it was a homicide instead of the apparent suicide everyone wants to believe it to be. (3) Kristie was walking down a dirt road with a book in her hand, tossing the book aside she begins drinking. She then goes to a church where April is preforming a skit about teen drinking, Kristie pulls April backstage to question her about Kristie’s grandfathers death. Kristie is escorted home by a security guard who badly mispronounces her last name. The next day when Krisitie returns home from a jog April is at Krisite’s house with her parents for an intervention where they take away everything and restrict kristie to only being around April, with the exception of devan once a week. It seems Kristie believes that supernatural forces are responsibile for her grandfathers death and she has a drinking problem (4) Kristie is struggling with her grandfathers death and resorts to alcohol to deal with the issues. She believes April had a hand in setting her up and confronts her while she is performing a skit about the very issue that Kristie has turned to, teen drinking. April denies any involvement in anything. Kristie is found by security officers and returned home to her parents, drunk. Kristie then comes home from a run to find her parents and April discussing her problems and how she needs to turn to God. She ends up getting grounded, forever! Kristie ends up turning to Jesus and the Bible and breaks down. • Node A5 (1) Kristie is acting odd and tells her little sister that she is not afraid to die. Kristie’s mother does not approve of how Kristie is telling her little sister about death, and tells Kristie that she now has to serve two hours of quiet time. While looking at a picture of Jesus, Kristie begins to receive text messages from the Devil suggesting she ”give a little, get a little” with her boyfriend. Christie is next seen walking through a subdivision when she finds what appears to be a dead woman in her car following an accident. Kristie touches her and she wakes up, much to Kristie’s alarm. Kristie wakes up, realizing this was a dream, and goes to meet Cameron. They discuss their future and drink. While drinking, Kristie notices that they are being watched. She rushes outside and gives chase. A spectral cougar appears and gives Kristie insight about God. Kristie questions her goals in life and faces a choice about whether to serve God or herself, ultimately choosing God. (2) In this movie, Kristie is a girl given a gift who must make a choice. She has a supernatural healing power that she uses on her friend Devon to bring her back to life after a car accident and a strong belief in God that she proclaims to her mother. Kristie is faced with a difficult decision in this movie: to love a boy, Cameron, or to love God. She must decide whether to use her power for selfish reasons or for God. (3) Kristie is talking about death. She says that someone who dies is in a better placee. Her mother overhears her and tells Kristie she needs quiet time. Kristie sees her friend, Devan. Devan has been in a car wreck. Kristie thinks that she is dead and tries to heal her. Devan wakes up. This was all a dream. The guy that Kristie likes, Cameron, throws rocks at CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 13

her window. She sends him a number. Kristie is walking through a construction site. She meets Cameron at a house. They begin imagining what it would be like to live in the house. Kristie tells Cameron about a picture of Jesus that her grandmother had. She tells Cameron that she used to be scared of the picture. She tells him that God is everywhere. Cameron looks out the window and points to something near the moon. He tells Kristie that it is Mars, but Kristie says it is a satellite. Kristie is walking by a fence. She sees a mountain lion and pets it. Staci is looking in a mirror and talking to herself as the credits start to roll. (4) Kristie is talking through her beliefs of death in her room with a small girl child. Her mother is upset by what she hears and tells Kristie she should take 2 hours of quiet time. She is walking through a construction site and sees smoke in the distance. She runs to the smoke and finds her friend Devan in a car. The window is smashed and her efforts to wake her fail. She believes Devan is dead and miraculously revives her by placing hand on Devan’s heart. Devan wakes up at this moment and Kristie wonders if she has a healing touch in her hand. • Node B1 (1) Kristie is a runner and lives in a two story cream colored house. She is also a very conflicted girl who wants to love and be loved by Jesus. She hides cigarettes and hard liquor behind a picture of Jesus that she keeps in her nightstand. She seems to be flirting with the dark side but really wants to be bathed in Jesus’ light. (2) Kristine starts out on a job , and ends up at a graveyard to stretch. She climbs the mountain and starts talking to someone. She g e rd home, and logs into her computer. Starts talking to her friends online saying she is about to go to a meeting. Looks in the mirror and struggles to say Jesus loves me. She gets a bottle of alcohol out of a cutout book, and a pack of cigarettes. (3) This indie film set in the 90’s follows a young girl named Kristie and her struggle with being a good Christian. At the start, she is walking through a graveyard before running and setting a new record. Afterwards, she goes back home and changes her clothes. She chats with her friends on her computer, but she is struggling to be good, practicing saying ”Jesus loves you” in the mirror to see if she thinks it’s true. Suddenly, she decides to be bad, and retrieves her alcohol and cigarettes from their respective hiding places. (4) Kristie is a young girl who loves God and loves running. However, there may be more than meets the eye with this seemingly good girl. Friends think she’s all pure, but they don’t know she has a hidden bottle of liquor enjoys cigarettes. What faith she does have may come to be tested by a dark force. • Node B2 (1) Kristie is a teenage girl in high school. She is in the phase where she’s trying to find her own identity and is somewhat rebellious against her parents. Her parents are rather suffocating with their religious beliefs and throwing it in Kristie’s face every moment. Her mother seems to be more accepting of her, but her father disapproves of everything she is doing, from her attitude to what she is wearing. Although Kristie is still firm in her religious beliefs, she is trying to be her own person and taking cues from her good friend Devan. Devan is a rebellious teenager and does not have a faith she believes in, and Kristie seems to want to help her find a faith, although she is not forceful about it like her parents. (2) Kristie’s parents start out in the kitchen bickering about houses. Then Kristie walks in and tells them she made a new record, and her father gets furious. They argue a small amount, and her dad brings up the fact of God and how children these days fear nothing. Kristie’s father says that her friend Devan needs to find God. Kristie then leaves with her friend Devan to go to school. While driving, they smoke cigarettes and talk about how Kristie does not know the truth behind things in the world. Kristie tells Devan she wants to share her experience with God with Devan to help her. Devan makes fun of Kristie 14 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

because their friend Cameron has a crush on her. They arrive at school and meet up with Cameron and walk to class. Whilst in class, Kristie draws doodles of God, and Devan draws doodles of aliens. Kristie carves the letter X in her skin with an eraser and it starts bleeding, but she heals it. Then she carved the word Foxy and then showed it to Devan. (3) Kristie is a student with friends that her parents are not real fond of. Kristie’s parents are devout Christians who have raised Kristie to be a Christian also. Being a teenager is hard with trying to fit in with others. Trying to live like her parents want her to, to sort out her faith for herself and also to share her faith with her friends. When you throw friends that might not believe in God, dressing to fit in with the way the other kids dress and also smoking cigarettes to fit in and you have an interesting movie that I can’t wait to see more of. (4) In the first part Kristie’s Dad is talking to her saying she needs to buckle down and decide what she wants to do with her life and go for it. In the second clip Kristie is picked up by her friend Devan. Devan is looking at the sky saying those aren’t jet trails, it;s some kind of chemical. Kristie tries to show Devan that she is cool, and takes out a pack of cigarettes, opens it and lights one. Coughing the whole time she is smoking. In the 3rd clip they are at a futuristic school where they are being watched my surveillance cameras all the time. Kristie and her friends are taking a test and she rubs her pencil’s eraser really hard on her arm to make her arm bleed spelling out FOXY. • Node B3 (1) In scene number 1, Staci is talking to Kristie, and Kristie tells her that there is this guy who likes her, but does not let her know what the name of the guy is, however Staci thinks the name of the guy is Derek, and becomes extremely happy about it. In second scene Kristie is running, and we here her thoughts as she runs. She thinks about what Jesus went through and this helps gain strength and finish her race. This is a very spiritual scene. In last scene, after her run, Kristie gets to where her grand father works. Her grand father joins her for a talk, makes her food, and they start talking. You can see that her grand father has a close relationship with her but her grand father is a science type of a guy. On the other hand, Kristie seems to have strong religious convictions, and tries to rationalize things more religiously. This scene is a talk between a religious person and a science person. (2) In this independent film, the scenery plays as much of a role as any of the characters. Whether it’s the flickering of a light or the buzzing of traffic, the camera focuses on these little details that may not seem too extraordinary, while telling the story of different groups of people. There’s Staci, for example, who is gossipping with Kristi, and gets very excited when she learns someone is in love with her. Or when Staci starts running from the track into the rest of the town, and she’s proud of her accomplishment. And when Kristi runs to where her grandfather is, they discuss stars and her dad until she tells him that Jesus loves him, which upsets him. All throughout, something ominous ties the scenes together. It’s hard to understand what it is, but it’s clear it’s there. (3) About how Kristie a religious fanatic tries to bring people closer to Jesus. She starts out with her friend, then with spectator Devan. She she finally tries to convince her grandfather who wants her to focus more on her academic career. All of this is happening while she believes that something could strike the earth at any moment making everyone dissapear. (4) Kristie is having what looks like lunch with Staci. Kristie tells Staci that she knows someone who loves Stacie. Stacie gets excited and asks if its Derrick but Kristie says its not him. Staci then freaks out because she thinks that its Derrick regardless. Devan is watching a Kristi run. Kristie runs out of the city. Eventually she slows down. She waves her hand over the clock and it starts going in reverse. She eventually reaches the end of the trail and stops to check her watch. It says 46 minutes. Though the sign says no public use beyond this point, she continues toward an observatory. She stops at a tree that overlooks a highway and the city and she looks up and sees something that looks like CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 15

a jet. Kristie reaches the observatory. A man greets her. He makes coffee. We learn that he is her grandfather. He is impressed with her run. He asks her to go stargazing for old times sake. He then starts talking about a specific hypernova. • Node B4 (1) Kristie is following her grandfather through some fields. She seems uncertain. Finally he stops, disappointed, overlooking a group of houses that didn’t used to be there. It’s dark when they get back. Kristie’s dad is growing impatient waiting for her. She says goodbye to her grandfather. On the way home, her dad quizzes her about bible verses and the spiritual laws. She answers reluctantly before losing her temper. Her dad is angry too, and he declares that she is not to see her grandfather again. At home, Kristie signs on to IM and her friends are concerned. Meanwhile, her dad calls her grandfather to tell him Kristie will never be allowed to see him again. Kristie gets a message from April, who suggests she use JesusBuddy (a bot) if she’s feeling uncertain about God. Kristie sends the bot a few messages, but is disappointed when it doesn’t understand her and refers her to a counselor. Another friend sends Kristie a link to a photo from space: ”The end of the world as we know it?” (2) Kristie’s father is deeply religious and is very concerned with the path that Kristie is taking. Kristie’s grandfather was apparently religious at one time, but has lost his faith and become very cynical. He does, however, have the ability to show his love for Kristie. Her father doesn’t realize that his inability to display his love is driving Kristie away from God. Kristie is torn between belief and unbelief. The computer program, ”JesusBuddy”, is not helping her. (3) Kristie is trying to have a relationship with her grandfather but Kristie’s father is angry about this and getting into arguments with Kristie and her grandfather. Kristie’s father also questions her faith and quizzes her on her beliefs in Jesus and this causes Kristie to question her faith and whether Jesus loves her or not. (4) Kristie spends the day with her grandfather, he wants to show her a spot on the hill where he used to bring his wife. When they finally arrive at the spot, leaving the airplanes, traffic and power lines behind, Kristies grandfather is disappointed that his natural valley is now a neighborhood. Disgusted he leads Kristie back home. Kristies deeply religious father is angrily waiting to drive her home. Once she is safely in the car he yells, and tries to quiz her on her religious studies. We catch a glimpse of a UFO in the background. When they get home Kristie reads a UFO magazine and chats with her friend Alice on IM. We can hear her father yelling at his dad, letting him know he will never see Kristie again. Kristie is questioning her faith. Her friend Alice blames it on science and suggests she chat with JesusBuddy for answers. Jesus Buddy does not respond when kristie asks if he loves her. Kristie receives an IM from the devil and he shows her a picture of the galaxy. • Node B5 (1) High school teen athlete Kristie is seeking to become a ”born-again christian.” She shares this with various friend who both help and criticize her decision. Kristie’s friend April attempts to guide Kristie on a godly path, while her friend Staci is skeptical of her new direction, and her faith in general. This leads to a tense relationship between longtime friends Staci and Kristie. (2) April and Kristie are walking. April informs Kristie about a relationship she has. Kristie asks her questions, thinking she is in a romantic relationship but April tells her she has a relationship with Jesus. April convinces Kristie to talk to her friends and educate them about Jesus and her experiences with him. Kristie starts to talk to her friends about Jesus but they don’t seem interested. She talks lastly to Staci, who makes her question her belief by giving her an argument about a merciful God versus an all-knowing God. Later, Kristie is talking with a friend and another girl comes by. She is upset because Kristie supposedly told her that a certain boy liked her and when she approached him, he and his friends laughed at her. Kristie denies saying this to her and walks away. 16 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

(3) April convinces Kristie to be more religious and spread God’s word. Kristie then goes to all of her friends and tries to spread god’s message and explain how god has an impact in her life. Her friend Staci pokes holes in her religious logic. Staci recieves bad advice from Kristie and their friendship is broken. (4) April talks to Kristie about her new found love-God. She tells Kristie it is important for her to spread the message of God. Kristie is doubtful that her friends will understand her message. April convinces Kristie to elave these doubts behind as Kristie begins to talk to her friends about the importance of God. Her friends demonstrate a lot of doubts as Kristie shares her opinion with them. Staci talked to Kristie about her logical doubts about God. Kristie sits down with Devin to talk about her problems convincing her friends. Devin is reassuring to Kristie. Staci interrupts their conversation, upset about Devin turning her down for the homecoming dance. Staci claims Kristie lied to her. • Node B6 (1) Kristie is a Christian girl, but is fighting all the uncertainties of being young and unsure. It seems she is being followed by sin wherever she goes. Kristie also doesn’t seem to get along with her parents because they have a different look on God that she does based on a fight about wether it was God’s plan to take a loved one away from them. (2) Kristie ran on a dry and rocky trail until it ended. A voice-over said she was running through the valley of the shadow of death to meet her creator. The next scene shows Kristie on an IM chat with Jesus Buddy responding to her ”X” satying he did not understand the question. Her friends proceeded to abuse her in the chat window. Next, she is smoking a cigarette walking along an airport fence. She then jumped in a car with Devan and told her, ”let’s go.” The final clip opens with Kristie smoking on the steps of a church. Her parents come out and yell at her for not attending the service. They end up discussing God’s will in the fellowship hall of the church. Kristie rebels against God and her parents. (3) Girl runs through valley seeking answers which leads to her creator. She wakes up on her computer and sees multiple instant messages. She goes to airport at night with her friend where she takes a smoke and realizes she is running from something or someone. She waits outside for her parents at church the next day where they are having a funeral service for pop pop. She gets in an argument with her dad about who/why pop pop was taken from them. (4) Kristie is a student out running a trail in the desert when she stumbled upon some kind of secret facility. She wanted answers as to what it was. Later, she went home and had sent a number of instant messages to ”JesusBuddy” with the letter ”X”, to which it replied ”I’m sorry, I don’t understand the question.” She sent IMs to some of her friends, all of whom were unkind to her. Later, Kristie and a friend went back to the place in the desert. Kristie saw a pulsating light and went to investigate. Planes were taking off behind her. After stopping for a smoke, she realizes she’s being tailed and hears a noise, and runs back to her car. The next morning, she is at a mourning for her grandfather ”Pop Pop”. Kristie is not much of a believer in Christ, and is outside. Her parents get her inside and talk with her. Mom tries to explain that it’s the Lord’s plan for Pop Pop to die. Her father wanted her to realize that she was lucky to have time with Pop Pop. Kristie stormed out. • Node B7 (1) As Kristie jogs, street lights begin to go out. At one point, she jogs past a sign for a lost kitten, Chuckie. Kristie wakes up at her desk to a black and white movie playing on her computer. She works on her blog. Kristie’s father appears behind her and explains that he needs to protect her. He asks for Kristie’s password, and then explains that society is responsible for making people die. Kristie begins to suspect that he may have had a hand in her grandfather’s death, and then the two argue about God’s role in his death. Kristie walks through the desert, and begins drinking. April performs a skit about teen drinking to her Youth Group. Kristie interrupts the performance and accuses April of setting her up. The two argue on stage and then Kristie CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 17

confronts April in a closet about her grandfather’s death. April explains that nobody Kristies grandpa killed himself. Kristie explains that she thinks he was pushed, and April suggests that Kristie goes home. (2) Kristie is walking down a highway at dusk. The camera zooms in on a lost cat poster. Kristie is now at home in her room. She’s watching an old movie on her computer while she works on a blog post about how she believes her grandfather was murdered, not a suicide. Kristie dismisses a private message from April about her grandfather. Suddenly her dad is standing behind her. He had a key and let himself into her room. They argue about her privacy and religion. He shakes her roughly several times. At youth group April is doing a skit about teenage drinking. Kristie walks in with the liquor in her pocket and forces April back stage. Kristie demands information about how her grandfather died. April says she’s sorry about Kristie’s grandfather passing away and that her grandfather killed himself because he was lonely. Kristie was his only friend and had been told not to see him anymore. April tells her to go home, and Kristie says that’s the first place they’ll look. (3) A young woman is struggling with her religious beliefs even though she feels a godly presence. She is apparently lost in these feelings and trying to find her self. She has an overbearing father who disagrees with her points of view on God. Her grandfather has died and she blames it on God while her father believes it was not God’s fault. Her grandfather’s death was an apparent suicide although she won’t believe it an is searching for a perpetrator, possibly in the supernatural world. On top of all of this she is socially isolated and having serious problems with that as well. (4) Kristie is a young girl coming to terms with her grandfathers death and the religious upbringing in her home. She is becoming unattached to the world she knew and is searching for a reason for her grandfathers death. Her father and April her friend represent the religious world that she has come to doubt. She argues with them about the religious beliefs that she can no longer believe in. • Node B8 (1) Kristie and Devan are planning on going to a crime scene. The atmosphere seems quite dramatic when the girls arrive. It’s after dark, the wind is blowing, and an animal can be heard growling in the distance. Kristie, Devan, and later Cameron, who joins them at the crime scene, drink while discussing what happened. Kristie makes a reference to a ”hatchet man.” A bright light suddenly appears in the sky. Then, a voice calls out to Kristie. It turns out to be the police. The police escort Kristie back to her parents’ house. Kristie’s mother tells her daughter that she is lucky that her father isn’t presently home. The next day, there’s a family intervention held for Kristie. Her dad, her mom, and April, her sister, are present. Kristie runs out of the intervention, upstairs to her room, and stops, mesmerized by a painting of Jesus. She looks down on her desk, and there is a Bible laid out. Kristie slowly turns toward the closet doors, and she falls to the floor crying. (2) Kristie and Staci go out late at night to try to find answers. But something is watching them as they go into a restricted area. Staci thinks the unknown object is made by immortal visitors from the planet Neburu. A security guard interrupts their discussion, and takes Kristi home to her parents. Her parents have other plans, having invited April from the church youth group over. Kristi’s parents ground her and want her to only hang out with April. When Kristi goes to her room, she sees that everything has been removed, and she has just a bible and a picture of Jesus. (3) Kristie and Devan met at April’s house, and went to a crime scene where there was a killer who killed someone. At the scene, there is a large sphere that they belived was not made my humans. There they met Cameron, and they started talking about ancient aliens who come to earth. The cops came and grabbed Kristie, and took her home to Kristies mothers because she was underage drinking. After Kristie came home, she met her mother and father, and April. April was talking about how Kristie is crazy for beliving 18 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

about Aliens, and they were talking to her about finding Jesus. Kristie then walks away after the discussion to convert her to Jesus. Kristie then finds a portrait of Jesus in her room, along with a Holy Bible. She then stares at her closet, as she drops to her knees and begins to cry. (4) After fortifying themselves with nips from a flask, Kristie and her friend Devan go to the scene of the crime, assuming the killer will return there. A shadowy figure awaits them. They get drunker and talk about sex and Jesus. Kristie starts talking to an invisible character about who killed her grandfather. Cameron arrives and conversation shifts to a glowing tower in the distance and alien conspiracies. Later, Kristie commences having Jesus-related hallucinations. Next, the police bring a drunk Kristie home to her mother, badly mispronouncing her last name. Kristie’s concerned parents call her annoying, super- religious ex-friend April over and give her a stern talking-to, telling her to follow Jesus and not the UFO conspiracies, as well as grounding her extensively such that she’ll miss an important track meet. But Kristie’s dad seems to have some attachment to Devan and Kristie refuses to comply. • Node B9 (1) Kristie is in her bedroom. She tells her little sister that she that she believes in God. Kristie’s mother comes in and tells Kristie and her sister that Kristie needs quiet time. Kristie texts a friend and arranges to meet in the parking lot. She finds her friend who appears to be dead and lays her hand on her and brings her back to life. The next scene has Cameron throwing rocks at Kristie’s window. He tells her they never chat anymore and she sends him a number. We then see Kristie walking through a housing development. Kristie meets Cameron at a home that is being constructed. He carries her into one of the homes where they begin imagining what it would be like to live there and furnish the place in their imagination. They start drinking and talk about a picture of Jesus that her grandma had. Kristie tells Cameron that God is everywhere. There is a haunting camera motion as if someone is watching them as they are talking. (2) Kristie stares at a painting of Jesus, her mom catches her talking to it, and she tells her to be quiet for two minutes. While dreaming, Kristie dreams that she brings a woman back to life after seeing her in a car accident. After waking up, she walks to a construction area, where new houses are being built and she talks with her friend, Cameron. The two enjoy a conversation over a bottle of liquor, where Kristie talks about how her grandmother used to have a painting of Jesus that scared her as a child. (3) This movie is about a girl named Kristie who presents some odd behavior and seems to have a stressed relationship with her parents. She has a supernatural ability which she channels through her hand that brought a girl back to life after a car accident. She also has a friend, Cameron, which she is really close to and they really seem to understand each other. Through out the movie she seems to be being stalk by an unknown person or entity. (4) Kristie is talking about death and her mother is upset with her, so she punishes her with two hours of quiet time. Later, Kristie is going to meet a Devan, but finds her in her crashed car. Kristie thinks she is dead, so she tries to heal her with her powers. Devan becomes conscious, but it is unknown whether it was Kristie’s doing. Devan says, ”That thing jumped right about infront of me.” Suddenly, Kristie walks up, and it was a dream, and she is still in her home. Cameron comes by, and yells to her window, and she responds by throwing down a paper airplane with a note. Kristie later walks to a construction site to meet Cameron. They chat for a little bit while drinking whiskey. • Node B10 (1) The girl and the boy race up to the bedroom of a partially completed house. They start talking about satellites and mars. The girl then senses something in another room of the house and goes to chase after it. The girl then stares at a tree and a voice-over about boyfriends and god starts up. The girl then CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 19

races towards a stadium as lights are going out. She then has a vision of a cougar appearing before her which she pets. The girl is in a a bathroom saying ’I love you’ to a mirror and a voice-over comes up about how she chooses god over self. (2) These parts of the movie refers to Kristie and her search for the answers of whether to love a boy or to love god. In the first part, Kristie and Cameron are together. Its obvious that Cameron likes Kristie, but Kristie is hesitant and isn’t sure she feels the same way. She questions herself about her duties with God and how they factor in with her life. We can see this in the last scene where she thinks about whether to use her power for the ”glory of god”, or the ”glory of self”. (3) This was about Kristie meeting Cameron and she really likes him. Shes struggling bc he wants to take the relationship further and she knows thats not right with God. Kristie is in the mirror and torn between what she believes. She knows that God will bring her through all of this but she struggles with her friends thast don’t believe in Gox (4) Cameron and Kristie are goofing off in a house under construction. They laugh and run through the rooms and look out the window to where Cameron points to something near the moon which he claims is Mars, but which Kristie says is a satellite. Soon after, Kristie seems to be suffering a hallucination outside of a chain link fence in which she sees and pets a mountain lion. A short period after, Staci is seen talking to herself in the mirror in the bathroom, while the credits start to roll.

2. Extractive Summaries Below, you can find the extractive summaries produced by our approach. Note that in our experi- ments we run the downward phase multiple times; using bootstrapping. Hence, our plots involve more than one extractive summaries. Here, we include the extractive summary that appears more frequently in our experiments; for the short story and for the movie. 2.1. Short Story. 2.1.1. Short Version. The top-five atoms of the short story after the downward phase, appearing in their physical order; the order in which they appear in the short novel: • There was smoke coming out around the top of the door. Bennis felt the door to see if it was cool, which it was. The last thing he wanted was to start a backdraft. Then he backed up to take a kick at the door. But that instant it opened and a man came running out. His hair and jacket were on fire, and he was screaming. He didn’t even see the two cops, but crashed frantically down the stairs. Bennis spun and went after him, knowing Figueroa would put out the emergency call to the dispatcher. He raced down the stairs three at a time and still couldn’t catch up with the terrified man until, leaping, screaming down the cement steps outside the front door, the man fell. The fire on his hair and jacket had spread. Bennis rolled him over in the snow three or four times. Then, thinking to chill the charred flesh and prevent further burn damage, he grabbed up handfuls of snow and slapped it all over the man’s head and back., • The hall was still cool and the air in it was fresh, so she pushed the woman out and yelled after her, ”Warn your neighbors!” There was no time to make sure she did. Suze Figueroa saw Bennis coming up the stairs. She yelled, ”There’s a man inside.” On hands and knees she crawled back in, touching the hot wall to make sure where she was going. She found the man, but at the same instant she and Bennis heard a baby start to scream. Bennis was next to her now and he slapped the man’s cheek, but the man didn’t move. Figueroa felt the man’s forehead. Smoke swirled above him, but he was lifeless and cold. The baby screamed louder, from a back bedroom. ”I gotta get the kid,” she said to Bennis. She wasn’t sure he could hear over the roar of the fire, but then she found him following her as they crawled to the bedroom. ”How many kids?” she yelled. There was just one crib. Bennis stood up, grabbed a little girl out of the crib, put her solidly under one arm, and ran like a quarterback for the front door. Suze stayed to check for another child. • He and Wardron held each other’s eyes for two or three seconds. Figueroa said, ”Sir, may I ask what the circumstances were that led up to the fire? We came into a situation midway-” 20 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

- ”Which is no excuse.” - ”I’m not suggesting that it is. But the fire obviously started in that apartment, and there were three adults inside who didn’t seem to have made any effort to put it out. Why was Mr. Molitor lying in the middle of the living room floor? If he’d been shot, for instance, I would think I’d be entitled to know that. It certainly wasn’t the smoke that killed him. He was down on the floor where the air was good.” - ”I don’t suppose there’s any reason not to tell you. We have a reasonably full picture, from the statement of the woman and the statements of the neighbors.” The Molitors had begun fighting in the afternoon-a husband, his wife, and the wife’s brother. Fighting and drinking, and drinking and fighting. Among the burned remnants of their apartment were dozens of beer cans and the fragments of two bottles that had contained scotch., • Wardron added, ”The entire building was engulfed when the fire department finally made it. Shortly after that, the top three floors of the structure collapsed into the basement. What was left of Mr. Molitor looked a lot like a blackened pipe cleaner.” Figueroa had been staring at the tabletop. ”Wait!” she said suddenly. She knew that wasn’t the way to talk to the brass, and said in a quieter voice, ”If you’ll give me a minute, to go get something, I think I can explain what happened.” She got up. Wardron said, ”You can explain it right here.” - ”If I may leave for just a minute, sir, I can demonstrate.” - ”One minute, then.” • Figueroa took two Styrofoam cups from the table that held the coffee urn and was back in less than a minute with two cups of water. ”Would you put the fingers of your left hand in one of these and the fingers of your right hand in the other, Deputy Wardron?” - ”No. Explain to me what you think you’re trying to do.” - ”Well maybe Commander Sazerac will, while I explain. We can always repeat it.” Sazerac, intrigued, did as she said. ”One cup is hot water and one is cold. On the night of the fire, Officer Bennis had patted snow all over the brother, outdoors, and then ran back into the burning apartment. While he was doing that, I was pulling the woman out of the kitchen. She was hot to the touch and felt like she was starting to blister. When I came back, I felt along the hot wall. The instant Officer Bennis returned from outside, we both touched Mr. Molitor.”, 2.1.2. Long Version. The top-ten atoms of the short story after the downward phase, appearing in their physical order: • Their commander, Sazerac, sat with them in the waiting room. He was as unhappy as they were. Finally he spoke. ”There’s no way I can stop this. But it bothers me. I wouldn’t have figured you for a shirker, Figueroa.” - ”What do you mean?” - ”Don’t you realize how they see this?” - ”Yes, boss. They know that Bennis and I have two different stories about last night, and so they think one of us is improperly describing the case. So they think one of us is lying. Which would be a reprimand.” - ”NO, Figueroa. It’s not that minor.” - ”Minor! I’ve never had a reprimand and I don’t intend to have one now! Uh. Sir.” Sazerac sighed. ”Listen to me. We’re talking separation from the department. Maybe prosecution.” - ”For what?” - ”They think you left that man to die in the fire, Figueroa. And made up your story later to cover up. To make it seem he was dead.” - Bennis groaned. ”But he was dead, sir! Figueroa would never- • ”And they think you, Bennis, added that diagnosis later, after you realized that your story cast doubt on whether he was dead.” - ”That’s not true. I said he was dead when I wrote it up this morning.” - ”Not strongly. You ’thought he was dead.’ They figure that you said it more strongly later because the two of you have gotten together to save her ass.” - ”No. NO, sir. That’s just not true. Sir, Figueroa is the best officer I’ve ever worked with. She’d never abandon a living person.” - ”Are you reconsidering your testimony, Bennis?” - Bennis looked from Suze Figueroa to the commander and back. His face was anguished. ”I can’t. I’m sorry, Figueroa. I can’t lie. Maybe I was temporarily disoriented by the fire. But I have to say what I know. I can’t lie.” - ”You’re lying now, Bennis,” she said. ”I wish I knew why.” • There was smoke coming out around the top of the door. Bennis felt the door to see if it was cool, which it was. The last thing he wanted was to start a backdraft. Then he backed up to take a kick at the door. But that instant it opened and a man came running out. His hair and jacket were on fire, and he was screaming. He didn’t even see the two cops, but crashed frantically down the stairs. Bennis spun and went after him, knowing Figueroa would put out CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 21

the emergency call to the dispatcher. He raced down the stairs three at a time and still couldn’t catch up with the terrified man until, leaping, screaming down the cement steps outside the front door, the man fell. The fire on his hair and jacket had spread. Bennis rolled him over in the snow three or four times. Then, thinking to chill the charred flesh and prevent further burn damage, he grabbed up handfuls of snow and slapped it all over the man’s head and back., • The hall was still cool and the air in it was fresh, so she pushed the woman out and yelled after her, ”Warn your neighbors!” There was no time to make sure she did. Suze Figueroa saw Bennis coming up the stairs. She yelled, ”There’s a man inside.” On hands and knees she crawled back in, touching the hot wall to make sure where she was going. She found the man, but at the same instant she and Bennis heard a baby start to scream. Bennis was next to her now and he slapped the man’s cheek, but the man didn’t move. Figueroa felt the man’s forehead. Smoke swirled above him, but he was lifeless and cold. The baby screamed louder, from a back bedroom. ”I gotta get the kid,” she said to Bennis. She wasn’t sure he could hear over the roar of the fire, but then she found him following her as they crawled to the bedroom. ”How many kids?” she yelled. There was just one crib. Bennis stood up, grabbed a little girl out of the crib, put her solidly under one arm, and ran like a quarterback for the front door. Suze stayed to check for another child. • He and Wardron held each other’s eyes for two or three seconds. Figueroa said, ”Sir, may I ask what the circumstances were that led up to the fire? We came into a situation midway-” - ”Which is no excuse.” - ”I’m not suggesting that it is. But the fire obviously started in that apartment, and there were three adults inside who didn’t seem to have made any effort to put it out. Why was Mr. Molitor lying in the middle of the living room floor? If he’d been shot, for instance, I would think I’d be entitled to know that. It certainly wasn’t the smoke that killed him. He was down on the floor where the air was good.” - ”I don’t suppose there’s any reason not to tell you. We have a reasonably full picture, from the statement of the woman and the statements of the neighbors.” The Molitors had begun fighting in the afternoon-a husband, his wife, and the wife’s brother. Fighting and drinking, and drinking and fighting. Among the burned remnants of their apartment were dozens of beer cans and the fragments of two bottles that had contained scotch., • By early evening, the neighbors were getting pretty tired of it. Judging by their observations and the wife’s story, about nine the husband, who until then had been just shouting and threatening and hitting the wall with his fists, started hitting his wife. She hit back for a while, then fell, and he kicked her. She screamed for help and one of the neighbors, too frightened to go in or knock, called the police. Meanwhile, the brother had come to the wife’s defense. He attacked the husband, who by now was in a blind rage. The husband pushed the brother, who fell over the wife, and then the husband grabbed a can of lighter fluid, ran wild, spraying it along the living room and kitchen walls, and lighted it. The brother surged up off the floor. The wife, terrified, crawled to what she thought was the front door, but she was dazed from several blows, and now smoke was filling the room, and she actually went into the kitchen. • Meanwhile, the brother had picked up a chair and hit the husband over the head, hard. The husband went down. At about this point, Figueroa and Bennis were pulling up outside. The brother’s hair had caught fire. He panicked and ran out of the apartment, where he was intercepted by Bennis. Wardron continued: ”Officer Figueroa, what you should have done after Officer Bennis left with the baby was to attempt to get Mr. Molitor out. You might not have succeeded, but you should have tried.” • I knew the man on the floor was dead. He was cold.” - ”Officer Bennis, was he cold?” Bennis swallowed. Figueroa fixed him with her eyes, but he didn’t look at her. For a moment he straightened up, squaring his shoulders, as if he were steeling himself to take action. Then his face sagged. ”He was still warm,” he said. Commander Sazerac asked, ”Isn’t there a way to tell whether he was dead before the fire got to him? You should be able to test for carbon sucked into the lungs. If he wasn’t breathing-” - ”Commander Sazerac, we appreciate your help,” Wardron said, in a tone that made it clear that he didn’t. ”Believe it or not, we thought of that. 22 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

• Wardron added, ”The entire building was engulfed when the fire department finally made it. Shortly after that, the top three floors of the structure collapsed into the basement. What was left of Mr. Molitor looked a lot like a blackened pipe cleaner.” Figueroa had been staring at the tabletop. ”Wait!” she said suddenly. She knew that wasn’t the way to talk to the brass, and said in a quieter voice, ”If you’ll give me a minute, to go get something, I think I can explain what happened.” She got up. Wardron said, ”You can explain it right here.” - ”If I may leave for just a minute, sir, I can demonstrate.” - ”One minute, then.” • Figueroa took two Styrofoam cups from the table that held the coffee urn and was back in less than a minute with two cups of water. ”Would you put the fingers of your left hand in one of these and the fingers of your right hand in the other, Deputy Wardron?” - ”No. Explain to me what you think you’re trying to do.” - ”Well maybe Commander Sazerac will, while I explain. We can always repeat it.” Sazerac, intrigued, did as she said. ”One cup is hot water and one is cold. On the night of the fire, Officer Bennis had patted snow all over the brother, outdoors, and then ran back into the burning apartment. While he was doing that, I was pulling the woman out of the kitchen. She was hot to the touch and felt like she was starting to blister. When I came back, I felt along the hot wall. The instant Officer Bennis returned from outside, we both touched Mr. Molitor.”,

2.2. Movie.

2.2.1. Short Version. The top-seven atoms of the movie after the downward phase, appearing in their physical order; the order in which they appear in the movie: • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/aTB.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/iTC.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/IDC.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/tWF.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/fWP.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/ti.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/dT.MP4

2.2.2. Long Version. The top-twelve atoms of the movie after the downward phase, appearing in their physical order: • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/aTB.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/aTK.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/iTC.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/tASN.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/IDC.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/tWL.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/tWF.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/fWP.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/dr.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/sP.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/ti.MP4 • http://www.stanford.edu/~verroios/clips/dT.MP4

3. Ground Truth 3.1. Movie. In the table below you can find the movie ratings of the four experts hired from elance. The higher the rating the most important the corresponding part of the movie was found by the rater. Note that the raters voted for the top-fifteen parts of the movie, therefore, the rest fifteen parts have a rating of 0. The first row gives the links to the 30 parts of the movie. Rows for Short and Long indicate the short and long extractive summaries produced by our approach. CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 23

Links 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Rater1 21 0 17 28 19 0 0 0 28 0 25 0 20 23 0 0 0 28 0 0 18 0 28 0 24 0 0 16 22 28 Rater2 0 0 22 30 19 0 18 0 29 0 23 0 28 27 0 0 0 21 0 17 16 0 20 0 25 0 0 0 24 26 Rater3 16 0 30 20 23 0 0 0 26 0 24 0 25 22 0 0 0 19 0 18 17 0 29 0 28 0 0 0 21 27 Rater4 0 0 30 21 20 0 16 0 23 0 24 0 29 25 17 0 0 28 0 0 18 0 27 0 22 0 0 0 19 26 Short 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Long 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1

3.2. Short Story. In the table below you can find the story ratings of the four experts hired from elance. The higher the rating the most important the corresponding part of the story was found by the rater. Note that the raters voted for the top-fifteen parts of the story, therefore, the rest fourteen parts have a rating of 0. The first row gives links to the 29 parts of the story (appearing after the table). Rows for Short and Long indicate the short and long extractive summaries produced by our approach.

Links 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Rater1 17 0 0 20 24 26 0 18 0 0 0 27 16 0 28 0 0 0 0 23 19 22 21 0 25 30 29 0 0 Rater2 0 0 0 19 30 26 0 17 0 0 0 25 16 21 29 20 0 0 0 24 0 23 22 0 18 28 27 0 0 Rater3 0 0 0 20 30 17 0 0 0 0 0 29 0 19 25 18 0 0 0 23 22 21 28 0 24 26 27 0 16 Rater4 0 21 0 19 28 24 0 0 0 23 22 30 0 17 29 16 0 0 0 0 0 26 25 0 20 27 18 0 0 Short 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 Long 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0

4. Movie (full movie) The full movie can be found at: The Master Plan

5. Short Story (all paragraphs) The story can also be found at: Hard Feelings (by Barbara D’Amato) (1) Officer Susanna Maria Figueroa was frightened, and she hated being frightened. It made her angry. Even worse, she was sure her partner Norm Bennis felt horrible, too. Nevertheless, he had made a serious mistake, and his mistake had gotten them both into trouble. Suze Figueroa sat on one side of the waiting room, her arms folded across her chest. Far away in the other corner-as far away from her as he could get and still be in the same room-sat Norm Bennis, feet spread, elbows on knees, hands dangling, head hanging. He looked absolutely miserable (2) Hell, Suze thought, he ought to. She just hoped he felt guilty as hell, making a stupid mistake and then sticking with it. Stubborn bastard! But they’d been together so long! Bennis was her mentor and her friend. The Police Academy teaches you what they think you need to know. Then the job-and your partner-teach you what you really need to know. Suze Figueroa had been assigned to Bennis just after she finished the initial on-the-job phase of working with a supervisor. She’d been afraid of what Norm would think of her at first. He looked so solid and experienced-like a walking ad for professionalism in police work for the twenty-first century. He’d been ten years a Chicago cop when she came on. He was built like a wedge, with narrow hips, a broad chest, and very wide shoulders. His square brown face, when she first saw it at that first roll call, was set in a scowl. But she soon realized that he thought it was lots of fun being mentor to a five-foot-one-inch naive female. (3) They hit it off immediately, and Bennis never made fun of her for not knowing whether a ten-young or a one-frank was a ”disturbance, domestic, peace restored” or a ”dog bite, report filed.” He didn’t belittle her, as her trainer sometimes had, for not knowing how to fill out a specific form. He knew the department didn’t run on gas or electricity, it ran on paper, and he knew when she’d filled out a couple hundred of them, she would remember all the forms. Bennis was sardonic, but not sour. For her part, Suze teased him about the long series of women who took his fancy for about three weeks apiece, but she sympathized too. She was divorced. Her ex-husband called her the ”affirmative-action cop.” By this he meant that she was too short and too female to be any good to anybody. Bennis thought she was just fine on the job. ”You back me up better than any partner I’ve ever had.” - ”Hey, Bennis! I’m not just backup. I’m forefront.” - ”That too.” 24 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

(4) Suze and Norm and half the First District went to the Furlough Bar for a beer after a tour. Recently, Suze and Norm had taken to going to an occasional movie instead. It was not exactly a girl-and-boy thing, Suze told herself. They were both too embarrassed at the thought of being called just another squad car romance. And now-now they wouldn’t even look at each other. It was 11 A.M. on February 15, the day after the incident. Two rooms down the hall, a roundtable of inquiry-four men and one woman, including an assistant deputy superintendent, a state’s attorney, and the union rep-were reviewing the documents in the case. They had before them the fire department reports and the preliminary findings of the medical examiner and the detectives. But the reports from other departments only explained what happened after the incident. After the point where Norm’s story and Suze Figueroa’s story diverged. (5) Their commander, Sazerac, sat with them in the waiting room. He was as unhappy as they were. Finally he spoke. ”There’s no way I can stop this. But it bothers me. I wouldn’t have figured you for a shirker, Figueroa.” - ”What do you mean?” - ”Don’t you realize how they see this?” - ”Yes, boss. They know that Bennis and I have two different stories about last night, and so they think one of us is improperly describing the case. So they think one of us is lying. Which would be a reprimand.” - ”NO, Figueroa. It’s not that minor.” - ”Minor! I’ve never had a reprimand and I don’t intend to have one now! Uh. Sir.” Sazerac sighed. ”Listen to me. We’re talking separation from the department. Maybe prosecution.” - ”For what?” - ”They think you left that man to die in the fire, Figueroa. And made up your story later to cover up. To make it seem he was dead.” - Bennis groaned. ”But he was dead, sir! Figueroa would never-” (6) ”And they think you, Bennis, added that diagnosis later, after you realized that your story cast doubt on whether he was dead.” - ”That’s not true. I said he was dead when I wrote it up this morning.” - ”Not strongly. You ’thought he was dead.’ They figure that you said it more strongly later because the two of you have gotten together to save her ass.” - ”No. NO, sir. That’s just not true. Sir, Figueroa is the best officer I’ve ever worked with. She’d never abandon a living person.” - ”Are you reconsidering your testimony, Bennis?” - Bennis looked from Suze Figueroa to the commander and back. His face was anguished. ”I can’t. I’m sorry, Figueroa. I can’t lie. Maybe I was temporarily disoriented by the fire. But I have to say what I know. I can’t lie.” - ”You’re lying now, Bennis,” she said. ”I wish I knew why.” (7) Figueroa was seething. Bennis stared away from her at the dead plant in the corner. The commander sighed again, and then sat silent. The door opened. A man in uniform came one step into the room. ”The board is ready for you,” he said. ”It was one of those nights that a lot of people call ’real Chicago weather,’ ” Suze Figueroa said to the board. ”It had started to snow at about three in the afternoon, just as Officer Bennis and I came on duty. We knew immediately that the rush hour was going to be hell-uh, was going to be very difficult. People had started coming into town, too, for Valentine’s Day dinners. By four o’clock it was snowing so hard you couldn’t see across the street. By five there were already cars backed up spinning their wheels on the steeper access ramps to Lake Shore Drive and the Kennedy Expressway. Some of them had run out of gas, blocking the streets, and would be there until Streets and San made it through to tow them.” (8) She was trying to hold in her fear, trying to put out of her mind the thought that she might be fired. Being a cop was what she had always wanted. ”It was constant from the moment we hit the street. We picked people out of stalled cars who were too scared to get out. We found several street people and ran them to shelters. We-” The ADS, Wardron, chopped her description short. ”Officer Figueroa,” he said, ”get to the incident.” - ”Yes, sir. But the weather played a very large part-” - ”We know what the weather was last night. Move forward.” - ”Yes, sir.” This guy Wardron was going to be trouble, she thought. He looked dike Mike Ditka and used his voice like the blade of a guillotine. She had vibes, sometimes, when she felt sure that another cop didn’t like women on the department. She didn’t want to think that this guy was out to get her, personally and specifically, but she’d bet if he could prove that some woman cop had run scared, he’d enjoy doing it. (9) ”At 2140 hours we got a call . . .” - ”One thirty-three,” the radio had said. They were car thirty- three in the First District. Since Figueroa was driving, Bennis picked up and said, CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 25

”Thirty-three.” - ”Woman screaming for help at eight-one-seven west on Chestnut.” - ”You got a floor on that, squad?” - ”On the two.” - ”Caller give a name?” - ”Oh, yeah. Citizen. Concerned citizen.” - ”I know the guy well.” - ”Gal.” - ”Whatever.” Because of the snow, all the usual city sounds around them were muffled. In fact, there were virtually no automobile noises, and they heard the dispatcher more clearly than usual. No need to repeat. Bennis said, ”Ten-four.” (10) The snow had filled the streets and was still coming down. Figueroa said, ”Jeez, Bennis. It’s not the traction that’s a problem. It’s all the abandoned cars.” - ”You can get around ’em here if you drive on the sidewalk.” - ”Right.” - ”Don’t clip the fire hydrant.” - ”Bennis, please! You know what an excellent driver I am.” - ”Figueroa, my man, I’d trust you with my life. In fact, I do it on a daily basis.” - ”And you’re still alive, too.” - ”Watch out for the dumpster!” - ”Missed it by a mile.” - ”A good quarter of an inch anyhow.” - The radio said: ”One thirty-three.” - ”Thirty-three.” - ”We got a second call on that woman screaming for help. Where are you?” (11) ”Northbound on LaSalle. Driving’s real bad, squad,” Bennis said, trying not to gasp as Figueroa slewed within kissing distance of a light pole. ”But I’d guess we’re just two minutes out now.” - ”Yeah, thirty-three. Okay. By the way, the news is it’s gonna keep snowing until noon tomorrow.” - ”How nice.” Bennis and Figueroa pulled up in front. They had entered thousands of buildings, not knowing what they’d find. They relied on each other. Each knew that the other would be there, and they even had their own shorthand way of communicating. Bennis pointed a finger to show Figueroa that it was her turn to stand to the far side of the apartment door. Then he knocked. But before he could knock again, Figueroa pointed. ”Look.” (12) There was smoke coming out around the top of the door. Bennis felt the door to see if it was cool, which it was. The last thing he wanted was to start a backdraft. Then he backed up to take a kick at the door. But that instant it opened and a man came running out. His hair and jacket were on fire, and he was screaming. He didn’t even see the two cops, but crashed frantically down the stairs. Bennis spun and went after him, knowing Figueroa would put out the emergency call to the dispatcher. He raced down the stairs three at a time and still couldn’t catch up with the terrified man until, leaping, screaming down the cement steps outside the front door, the man fell. The fire on his hair and jacket had spread. Bennis rolled him over in the snow three or four times. Then, thinking to chill the charred flesh and prevent further burn damage, he grabbed up handfuls of snow and slapped it all over the man’s head and back. (13) There was no time to wait and see how badly hurt the man was. God only knew how many people were in the building. Bennis bolted back inside and up the stairs. Meanwhile, Figueroa had keyed her radio. ”One thirty- three, emergency.” - ”Go ahead, thirty-three.” - ”There’s a fire in this apartment, and it’s going fast.” - ”I’ll get the smokiest.” - ” ’Four.” Talking on her radio had used just six seconds. At the same time, she had been scanning the apartment. She could hardly see anything, the smoke was so thick! but she heard a woman screaming. Figueroa dropped to her hands and knees and crawled fast toward the screams. (14) She found herself in the kitchen, where a woman, standing up, was rushing into a broom closet, falling down when she hit the wall, rushing in again, terrified and convinced it was the front door. Figueroa grabbed her. ”Get out of my way!” the woman screamed over and over. Figueroa said, ”Hey! Stop it!” - ”Get out of my way!” Figueroa slapped her. The flames were running along the floorboards now. The woman kept shrieking. ”Come with me, god-dammit!” Figueroa seized the woman’s hand, pulled her to the floor. She put her arm over the woman’s shoulder and hustled her on all fours toward the front door. This woman was burned already, Figueroa thought. Her skin felt hot to the touch, and Figueroa could almost believe she felt blisters starting to form. Pushing and cajoling and bullying, she got the woman into the living room. Crossing the floor, she realized she was crawling over the body of a man lying there unmoving, but she didn’t have time to worry about that. She got the woman to the door. (15) The hall was still cool and the air in it was fresh, so she pushed the woman out and yelled after her, ”Warn your neighbors!” There was no time to make sure she did. Suze Figueroa saw Bennis coming up the stairs. She yelled, ”There’s a man inside.” On hands and knees she crawled back in, touching the hot wall to make sure where she was going. She found the man, but at the same instant she and Bennis heard a baby start to scream. Bennis was next 26 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

to her now and he slapped the man’s cheek, but the man didn’t move. Figueroa felt the man’s forehead. Smoke swirled above him, but he was lifeless and cold. The baby screamed louder, from a back bedroom. ”I gotta get the kid,” she said to Bennis. She wasn’t sure he could hear over the roar of the fire, but then she found him following her as they crawled to the bedroom. ”How many kids?” she yelled. There was just one crib. Bennis stood up, grabbed a little girl out of the crib, put her solidly under one arm, and ran like a quarterback for the front door. Suze stayed to check for another child. (16) The fire was flashing across the ceiling now. She didn’t have much time. One crib. Hurry up! No other child’s bed. No crying. Hurry! It’s hot! As far as she could see through the smoke, only girl- child toys in one age group-two soft dolls, one stuffed bear, a play muffin tin, and some plastic spoons. One child. Part of the ceiling fell. Taking a last breath of air from floor level, Figueroa jumped up and bolted for the front door. The living room was a hell of flame, and if she hadn’t memorized where the door was, she would never have made it. Her hair was singed. She could not even see the man on the floor. He was dead, anyway, and she had to warn the upstairs neighbors. (17) Outside, fire engines were fighting their way through streets blocked with stalled cars. They didn’t arrive until ten minutes later. ”I want to point out,” Commander Sazerac said to Deputy Wardron, ”that Officers Bennis and Figueroa got the other tenants out of the building. Which, given the weather and the time it took for the fire battalion to arrive, surely saved their lives.” - ”We understand that,” Wardron said, clipping his words. Sazerac said, ”The building was totally involved when the fire engines arrived. And then they had trouble getting water to it. Stalled cars were blocking the fire hydrants.” - ”We are aware of that.” - ”When the fire was finally struck at 0330 hours, Officers Bennis and Figueroa were still caring for residents, even though they were four and a half hours past the end of their tour.” - ”Commander Sazerac, I appreciate your attempt to help your men-ah, people-but we are interested in what happened in the Molitor apartment, not what happened afterward. We’ll proceed.” (18) Bennis said angrily, ”I personally saw Officer Figueroa rescue six residents from the upper floors.” - ”Officer Bennis, we’ll get your story later.” Commander Sazerac said loudly, ”And she was burned in the attempt, Deputy!” - ”Not relevant now. We’ll take it into account during sentencing.” - ”Don’t you mean if there is a decision to go to sentencing, Deputy?” - ”Of course, Commander. This is just a preliminary roundtable. My mistake.” He turned his head and addressed the four board members. ”We will note Commander Sazerac has questions about this process. (19) However, we will take matters up in order. We are not going to use this process today as a way for the two officers involved to get their stories straight between them.” Commander Sazerac said, ”They could have done that at any time in the last twelve hours. It’s their integrity and their unwillingness to alter their reports to say the same thing that has caused a difference in perception to be blown up into this silly-” - ”Commander! This is a fact-finding proceeding. It is an inappropriate time to make arguments. Hold them until the charges have been proven or not proven.” Wardron was in charge here, not Sazerac. Departmental structure being what it was, there was nothing Sazerac could do but sit by, just about as useful as the photo of the superintendent on the wall. (20) He and Wardron held each other’s eyes for two or three seconds. Figueroa said, ”Sir, may I ask what the circumstances were that led up to the fire? We came into a situation midway-” - ”Which is no excuse.” - ”I’m not suggesting that it is. But the fire obviously started in that apartment, and there were three adults inside who didn’t seem to have made any effort to put it out. Why was Mr. Molitor lying in the middle of the living room floor? If he’d been shot, for instance, I would think I’d be entitled to know that. It certainly wasn’t the smoke that killed him. He was down on the floor where the air was good.” - ”I don’t suppose there’s any reason not to tell you. We have a reasonably full picture, from the statement of the woman and the statements of the neighbors.” The Molitors had begun fighting in the afternoon-a husband, his wife, and the wife’s brother. Fighting and drinking, and drinking and fighting. Among the burned remnants of their apartment were dozens of beer cans and the fragments of two bottles that had contained scotch. CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL 27

(21) By early evening, the neighbors were getting pretty tired of it. Judging by their observations and the wife’s story, about nine the husband, who until then had been just shouting and threatening and hitting the wall with his fists, started hitting his wife. She hit back for a while, then fell, and he kicked her. She screamed for help and one of the neighbors, too frightened to go in or knock, called the police. Meanwhile, the brother had come to the wife’s defense. He attacked the husband, who by now was in a blind rage. The husband pushed the brother, who fell over the wife, and then the husband grabbed a can of lighter fluid, ran wild, spraying it along the living room and kitchen walls, and lighted it. The brother surged up off the floor. The wife, terrified, crawled to what she thought was the front door, but she was dazed from several blows, and now smoke was filling the room, and she actually went into the kitchen. (22) Meanwhile, the brother had picked up a chair and hit the husband over the head, hard. The husband went down. At about this point, Figueroa and Bennis were pulling up outside. The brother’s hair had caught fire. He panicked and ran out of the apartment, where he was intercepted by Bennis. Wardron continued: ”Officer Figueroa, what you should have done after Officer Bennis left with the baby was to attempt to get Mr. Molitor out. You might not have succeeded, but you should have tried.” (23) ”I knew the man on the floor was dead. He was cold.” - ”Officer Bennis, was he cold?” Bennis swallowed. Figueroa fixed him with her eyes, but he didn’t look at her. For a moment he straightened up, squaring his shoulders, as if he were steeling himself to take action. Then his face sagged. ”He was still warm,” he said. Commander Sazerac asked, ”Isn’t there a way to tell whether he was dead before the fire got to him? You should be able to test for carbon sucked into the lungs. If he wasn’t breathing-” - ”Commander Sazerac, we appreciate your help,” Wardron said, in a tone that made it clear that he didn’t. ”Believe it or not, we thought of that.” (24) Sazerac watched sourly. He knew there was something wrong with the way they were getting the picture, but he couldn’t put his finger on where the problem was. Figueroa would not have left a living man to burn to death. Sazerac had been a commander much too long to make serious mistakes in judgment about his officers’ characters. There was a problem with Figueroa, but it was the opposite. Like a lot of short female officers, she had a tendency to put herself in harm’s way unnecessarily and play Jane Wayne. This charge against her was dead wrong. (25) Wardron added, ”The entire building was engulfed when the fire department finally made it. Shortly after that, the top three floors of the structure collapsed into the basement. What was left of Mr. Molitor looked a lot like a blackened pipe cleaner.” Figueroa had been staring at the tabletop. ”Wait!” she said suddenly. She knew that wasn’t the way to talk to the brass, and said in a quieter voice, ”If you’ll give me a minute, to go get something, I think I can explain what happened.” She got up. Wardron said, ”You can explain it right here.” - ”If I may leave for just a minute, sir, I can demonstrate.” - ”One minute, then.” (26) Figueroa took two Styrofoam cups from the table that held the coffee urn and was back in less than a minute with two cups of water. ”Would you put the fingers of your left hand in one of these and the fingers of your right hand in the other, Deputy Wardron?” - ”No. Explain to me what you think you’re trying to do.” - ”Well maybe Commander Sazerac will, while I explain. We can always repeat it.” Sazerac, intrigued, did as she said. ”One cup is hot water and one is cold. On the night of the fire, Officer Bennis had patted snow all over the brother, outdoors, and then ran back into the burning apartment. While he was doing that, I was pulling the woman out of the kitchen. She was hot to the touch and felt like she was starting to blister. When I came back, I felt along the hot wall. The instant Officer Bennis returned from outside, we both touched Mr. Molitor.” (27) Commander Sazerac said, ”I begin to see.” - ”Mr. Molitor was dead, but only ten to twenty minutes dead, so his skin was probably about the temperature of mine today. Commander, will you use both hands to touch my forearm?” Sazerac did so. He smiled. ”Amazing. Your arm feels warm to my right hand and cold to my left.” Sazerac turned to Wardron. ”The same arm,” he said. ”And it feels entirely different.” He gestured to Wardron. ”Want to try it?” Figueroa and Bennis sat in their squad car. Bennis said, ”Reminds me of this case I had once.” 28 CONTEXT TREES: DATASETS MATERIAL

Figueroa sighed loudly, but Bennis knew she liked his stories. ”Guy decided to rob a fraternity house late at night, on a night when there had been a late snow. Flat, untouched snow leading up to the door. So he says to himself ’If I walk in backward, they’ll think it was somebody from inside who stole the stuff, because there won’t be any tracks leading in.’ ” - ”Not a bad plan.” (28) ”Which he proceeds to accomplish. Picks up a lot of odds and ends, one or two wallets, a ten-inch TV, a boom box, and leaves. Kids get up in the morning’ call the cops, we come in, see the tracks. Well, we’d been onto a guy in the neighborhood we knew’d been doing this kind of stuff. Go pick him up. Now he’s got a problem. He wants to ask about tracks in the snow, but he shouldn’t know anything about it, see?” (29) ”Yup.” - ”So he says, real cute, ’You’d think you could tell whether it was an inside or outside job, snow like this and all.’ ” - ”Real subtle.” - ”Yeah. Well, we said, ’We did and we knew by the tracks it was an outside job.’ He says, all astounded ’That’s impossible! I faced backward, going and coming!’” Suze Figueroa giggled. ”They get cute, but they never get smart.” - ”So you see, Figueroa, it’s like this case with the fire. The way things are is all a matter of which angle you’re looking at it from.” - ”Right, Bennis. Got it. Want to do a movie after work?” He checked around to make sure nobody was watching and put his arm over her shoulders. ”Let me take you to dinner, Figueroa. We missed Valentine’s Day.”