Optional question after DashedSentence

[adamliter]

I’m having trouble figuring out a good way to include a question after some self-paced reading trials.

I have something like the following. Some of the rows in the CSV file also have a value for the column Question. Some are blank, however. I only want to include the question when there is one.

PennController.Template("Stimuli.csv",
  row => ["spr", "DashedSentence", {s: row.Sentence, display: "in place"},
  ]
);

I initially tried something like this:

PennController.Template("Stimuli.csv",
  row => ["spr", "DashedSentence", {s: row.Sentence, display: "in place"},
        ...(row.Question !==  "" ? ["qst", "Question", {q: row.Question, as: ["დიახ", "არა"], hasCorrect: row.Answer}] : [])
  ]
);

However, this isn’t working. I think part of the issue may be that I have a new sequence, qst. I had been trying to randomize the trials with PennController.Sequence("consent", randomize("spr"), "send"), but this doesn’t account for the question. Any suggestions for how to include a question only when there is one in the CSV file while keeping the question paired with the relevant sentence when they are randomized would be really appreciated!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by adamliter. Reason: formatting
• This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by adamliter.

[Jeremy]

Hi Adam,

You were almost there: the problem indeed comes from your inserting a second label inside a single Ibex-item array, which is an illegal syntax. Your code works perfectly well if you get rid of "qst", before "Question"—if your sentences and questions are paired, they represent a single item and so you shouldn’t need a second label.

You say that using spr only wouldn’t account for the questions: what exactly are you trying to do? If you don’t want the Question controllers (when they exist) to be paired with a respective DashedSentence controller, you should simply called Template twice on your table, first to generate the DashedSentence items, and then to generate the Question ones.

Jeremy

[adamliter]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for your quick response as always. Yes, just deleting the "qst" label gives me the result that I was trying to achieve. I really appreciate your help. Thank you!

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