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Self-paced reading : labeling of items.

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By mrtncgy - 4/6/2016

Hello, 

I was using Inquisit 4 for self-paced reading study with 80 items.
<item mwstims>
/1 =" ...." 
...
/80 =" ...."
with 80 questions.

I had 5 different types of sentences but every sentence had its own number. 
I though that the number of the sentence will be recorded in the output file and I will be able to track the sentences but these numbers (1-80)
but these number of sentence do not appear there at all. I was wondering whether there is any way to get the number of the sentence from the 
output files. 

Thanks. 
By Dave - 4/6/2016

If you have not changed the script that's available in the library (beyond entering your own items and the necessary modifications tied to that), the item number is reflected in the list.mwstims.nextvalue' column in the data file.
By mrtncgy - 4/6/2016

I do have that value but for some reason it shows only the condition, not the sentence number. 
By Dave - 4/6/2016

Then you've re-purposed that <list> and apparently haven't accounted for that change by logging the additional information that would show the item number to the data file by modifying the /columns attribute. You'll have to find another way then to reconstruct the info from what you have logged to the data file.