{"id":"study-mandarin-tone-practice-list","audience":"high-school","category":"studying","technique":"grounding","track":"study","title":"Make a Mandarin tone drill from your lesson list","free":false,"task":"In Chinese 1 you keep mixing up tones. Make exactly 6 numbered drill lines in the form 'characters - pinyin with tone marks - English', plain text, nothing else. Include the 2 words your teacher starred, use only words from your lesson list, and use the corrected pinyin your teacher gave for 'teacher'.","materialLabel":"Your lesson vocab list (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"CHINESE 1 - Lǎoshī Chen - Lesson 4: School\n\n学校 - xuéxiào - school\n学生 - xuésheng - student *\n老师 - lǎoshí - teacher\n   ^ Lǎoshī Chen: \"Typo in the workbook! It's lǎoshī, first tone on shī, not second.\"\n书 - shū - book\n朋友 - péngyou - friend *\n中文 - Zhōngwén - Chinese (language)\n考试 - kǎoshì - exam\n图书馆 - túshūguǎn - library\n上课 - shàngkè - to go to class\n\n* = Lǎoshī Chen: \"Starred words will be on the oral tone quiz.\"\n\nTone tip: 1st = high flat, 2nd = rising, 3rd = dip, 4th = falling. Neutral tone = no mark (like the \"sheng\" in xuésheng).\n\nNot this lesson: numbers past 10, measure words (Lesson 5).\n\nTone quiz Wednesday. Use the Pleco app to listen.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":6},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not saying how many lines","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more lines than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 6 numbered lines.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Skipping the starred words","why":"The AI doesn't know the stars mean 'on the quiz'.","fix":"Add: \"Must include the 2 starred words.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not showing the line shape","why":"The AI makes a table, uses tone numbers, or adds example sentences.","fix":"Show one: \"书 - shū - book\".","checks":["r1","plainText"]},{"title":"Missing the workbook fix","why":"The typo and the correction are both in your list.","fix":"Add: \"Use the corrected pinyin for 老师: lǎoshī.\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many lines","patterns":["\\b(6|six)\\b.{0,25}line"]},{"label":"Mentions the starred words","patterns":["star","学生","朋友","xu[ée]sheng","p[ée]ngyou"]},{"label":"Shows the line shape","patterns":["tone marks","like ['\"]","format","-\\s*sh[ūu]"]},{"label":"Uses the correction","patterns":["correct","typo","l[ǎa]osh[īi]"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"Tone drills need the marks exactly right. Show the AI one line, say how many, which words must be in, and point it to your teacher's fix.","rubricLabels":["Includes the 2 starred words (学生 xuésheng and 朋友 péngyou), and every word comes from the lesson list","Every line is in the shape 'characters - pinyin with tone marks - English', with the tone marks copied from the list (no tone numbers, no extra example sentences)","If 老师 appears, its pinyin is lǎoshī (the correction), not lǎoshí"]}