text: Caroline: do u think professor mulligan would be willing to write a recommendation leter for me?
  Amira: i don't know
  Amira: he's got dozens and dozens of students each semester
  Amira: he probably doesn't even know who you are :-/
  Caroline: mmm... you are right, i'm still going to ask him anyway
target: Caroline is going to ask professor mulligan to write her a recommendation letter.