In this paper we discuss a mechanism for modifying context in a tutorial dialogue. The context mechanism imposes a pedagogically motivated misrepresentation (PMM) on a dialogue to achieve instructional goals. In the paper, we outline several types of PMMs and detail a particular PMM in a sample dialogue situation. While the notion of PMMs are specifically oriented towards tutorial dialogue, m i s r e p r e s e n t a t i o n has interesting implications for context in dialogue situations generally, and also suggests that Grice's maxim of quality needs to be modified
