'Her' is input having the answer 'njen' and 'njezin' the way its input when it quizzes you there is a 50/50 chance you get it wrong. Is there a way to take 'njezin' (the less common of the two) out of the course?
BCS - A Textbook (Croatian Vocab)
https://mylittlewordland.com/course/132494
Word | Definition |
---|---|
njen | her |
njezin | her |
Previously, I indicated that such cases would be problematic. No action has been taken yet, but I think @neoncube is aware of the problem.
https://forum.mylittlewordland.com/d/94-new-feature-multiple-choice/9
In typing, the same problem occurs. It is impossible to determine whether "e" or "ed" is correct. (I experienced the same problem in Memrise.)
It is impossible to distinguish between the two, so I think both must be treated as the correct answer.
7shi in this case it seems like njezin could just be removed. they are just colloquial differences njezin being a less common use
Probably the best way to fix this with the current system would be to add "njezin" and "njen" as hidden alternatives to one another:
Word | Definition |
---|---|
njen; _njezin | her |
njezin; _njen | her |
Indeed, though, it would be nice for the system to be able to automatically figure out that both "njen" and "njezin" should be accepted when asking for a translation of "she"
In the above example, this would be pretty simple. I guess the question is whether there are any cases where we wouldn't want to do this.
Let's think of some examples.
Word | Definition |
---|---|
picante | hot; spicy |
calor | hot |
In this case, I think we'd want to accept either "calor" or "picante" when "hot" were shown, but only "picante" when "hot; spicy" were shown.
I suppose hidden alternatives should be considered, too:
Word | Visible definitions | Hidden definitions |
---|---|---|
re | hot | warm; burning hot |
la | hot; spicy | |
tang | burning hot | hot |
Table of acceptance:
Shown | Accepted |
---|---|
hot | re, la, or tang |
hot; spicy | la |
burning hot | tang or re |
warm | re |
My Little Word Land also supports making a word optional using parentheses. For example:
Word | Visible definitions | Hidden definitions |
---|---|---|
re | hot | warm; burning hot |
la | hot; spicy | |
tang | (burning) hot |
In that case, I suppose the accepted answers would be the same as if "tang" were defined as "hot; _burning hot".
If it's debatable whether an answer is correct or not, it could also be nice to pop up a message saying something like "That's correct, but there's a better answer!" and then ask the user to try again.
Using the above examples, I think we'd want to do this in the following cases:
- Prompted with "hot" and answered "tang"
- Prompted with "burning hot" and answered "re"
Basically, we'd want to show this message when the answer only matched because of a hidden definition or because of parentheses.
- Edited
neoncube Don't mind me. I understand that you have so much work to do,
I think this is a useful discussion, but I fear that it is not realistic to make such modifications every time one finds a problem. You have imported a large number of courses from Memrise and similar problems maybe exist in many places.
7shi True! This is a problem that I've been thinking about for a while, though, since I'd run into it somewhat often on Memrise (especially with Chinese courses).
@austin557 For now, can you ignore "njezin"?
@neoncube I donβt know which one itβs asking me for until I guess it. Is there a way for me to edit a lesson?
neoncube Clicking "ignore" does not seem to work when I have already finished "Learn" and am in the "Review" stage. Words that should have been ignored reappear.
As pointed out:
https://forum.mylittlewordland.com/d/123-ignore-button-doesnt-work/6
7shi I think this should be fixed, now
@austin557 The next time your answer is marked as incorrect and it says that the correct answer should have been "njezin", can you click the ignore button, like in @7shi's screenshot?
neoncube they re appear even if I ignore them
@austin557 By the way, I noticed that there are a lot of words in that course that are separated with commas, which makes it so that you need to type both words. For example, you'd need to type "and, but" for "a".
Would you like me to fix this, so that "and", "but", and "and; but" are all accepted answers for "a"?