Leaving a comment after an acceptability judgment task item

[jay0845]

Hi,

In my linguistic experiment page, I am trying to have a pre-practice section where after participants judge the acceptability for each pre-practice item they can see a short comment. For example, after they make an acceptability judgment for a pre-practice item sentence like “The stuntman smashed sixteen cars in five minutes.”, I would like them to see a comment like “This sentence is usually perceived as very natural. In such a case, you were expected to give the sentence a very high rating.” For now, I have the following code:

// Pre-practice
Template("pre-practice.csv", row =>
    newTrial( "pre_practice" ,
        newText("sentence", row.SENTENCE)
            .cssContainer({"margin-top":"2em", "margin-bottom":"2em"})
            .center()
            .print()
            ,
        newScale(7)
            .before( newText("left", "<div class='fancy'>(very unnatural)</div>") )
            .after( newText("right", "<div class='fancy'>(very natural)</div>") )
            .keys()
            .log()
            .once()
            .labelsPosition("top")
            .color("LightCoral")
            .center()
            .print()
            .wait()
        ,
        // Wait briefly to display which option was selected
        newTimer("wait", 300)
            .start()
            .wait()
        ,
        newText("comment", row.COMMENT)
            .cssContainer({"margin-top":"2em", "margin-bottom":"2em"})
            .center()
            .print()
            .wait()
    )
)

The issue with this code is that after they see the comment for the first pre-practice item, it is stuck and it does not move to the next one. How can I fix this issue?

Thank you very much for your support and help in advance.

Jungsoo

[Jeremy]

Hi Jungsoo,

There is no wait command for Text elements: https://doc.pcibex.net/text/

How do you want the experiment to move on to the next trial after displaying the comment? Should the participant click a button? Press a key? Should the experiment automatically move on after a timer?

Jeremy

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