Self-paced reading followed by a question

As I have been working on my research project, I discovered that the library already contains an implementation of "Self-paced reading (one word at the time) in www.psytoolkit.org/experiment-library/pacedreading1.html " which has been extremely helpful. However, I am facing several challenges with regards to implementing a new function in my experiment. I would like to display a QUESTION with three answer choices on the screen after participants have read a sentence word by word, with the option to choose the correct answer within five seconds. For example,

 

(1) :"It is said that John believes that Frank will talk about books about himself at the press. "

 

In this part, participants see one word at the time. Participants need to press the n key to go to the next word. After reading the whole sentence, there will be a QUESTION with three answers to choose from and the choice has to be made within five seconds.

 

(1.1) Question: The question: Who is the books about?

A=John               B= Frank                   C=Either

 

I want to record the reading time of every word of (1) by pressing the key to continue, and choosing the answer of (1.1).

 

Following problems have popped up:

1. I have tried many times of coding, but the program always shows a "Compilation failed" error message and I am uncertain about the source of the problem.

2. In presenting the QUESTION, I previously used coding “message bitmap”, demonstrating the QUESTION and answers in a picture. Is that right? Or should I use the textbox function to present the QUESTION and answer? How to achieve it?

3. Because I have many stimuli, how to properly include my large table of stimuli using the include function?

4. I need to repeat the same piece of code in different parts of my code. For example, code “part showPhrase” including participants need to press the n key to go to the next word. Code “part showQuestion” including participants need to read the question and then choose the answer of (1.1). How to use *part* function to achieve this?


 I have attached a ZIP file containing all the relevant experiment materials, including a portion of my experiment code.
 I would be immensely grateful for any guidance or support that you could provide in resolving these issues. 


MATERIALS:

Reading sentence:

"1.It is said that John believes that  Frank will talk about books about himself at the press. "

The question: Who are the books about?

A=John               B= Frank                   C=Either

 

"2.It is said that rumors about himself John expects Frank to check out at the press."

The question: Who are the rumors about?    

A=John                B= Frank                   C=Either

 

"3.It is said that Mary knows Alice to find pictures about himself at the press."

The question: Who are the pictures about?   

A=Mary                B=Alice                      C=Either

 

 

Part of the experiment codes:

options

  fullscreen

  resolution 1024 800

  mouse off

 

  fonts

  arial 40

 

bitmaps

  getReadyBlue  instructions/getReadyBlue.png

  question1     instructions/question1.png

  question2     instructions/question2.png

  question3     instructions/question3.png

 

include phraseTables.txt

 

part showPhrase

  keys n

  font normal

  show text @3 0 -50

   readkey 1 5000

   clear -1 -2

  while-end

save TASKNAME TABLEROW  @1 @2 @3 RT @4 @5 @6 @7 @8 @9 @10 @11

 

part showQuestion

  keys a b c

  set $x 1 2 3

  if $x == 1

    draw off

      message bitmap  0 -50

    draw on

    readkey @6 5000

    save  @3

  fi

  if $x == 2

    draw off

      message bitmap  0 -50

    draw on

    readkey @7 5000

    save @7

  fi

  if $x == 3

    draw off

      message bitmap  0 -50

    draw on

    readkey @585000

    save @8

  fi

  clear -1 -2   #limpa os dois últimos "show"

if STATUS == WRONG

      show text "INCORRECT!" 0 0 255 0 0

      delay 1500

      clear -1     #limpa o último "show"

  fi

fi

if STATUS == TIMEOUT

end tasklist   #finaliza a tarefa (frase) atual e chama a próxima

fi

 

task sent1

  mouse hide

  table S1

  part showPhrase

  message question1

  part showQuestion

 

 

task sent2

  table S2

  part showPhrase

  message question2

  part showQuestion

 

task sent3

  table S3

  part showPhrase

  message question3

  part showQuestion

 

block b1

  bitmap getReadyBlue

  delay 1500

  tasklist

    sent1  17 fixed

  end

 

block b2

  bitmap getReadyBlue

  delay 1500

  tasklist

    sent2  16 fixed

  end

 

block b3

  bitmap getReadyBlue

  delay 1500

  tasklist

    sent2  16 fixed

  end



ZIP file:  SPR_ one word at the time followed by a que....zip (44.68 KB)