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Wouldn't you be better off starting out with an object id of mrs_smith so that you can refer to her as Mrs Smith (adjective = mrs, noun = smith)? Then you can refer to her as Jennifer, Smith, Mrs Jennifer or Mrs Smith. Or is the 'Mrs' ignored if it's not defined anywhere in the vocabulary? So I can refer to her as 'old lady Smith' or 'Granny Smith' or 'blah Smith' and it's still understood.

Adventuron4 years ago

Correct, mrs is ignored if not defined anywhere.

Garry Francis4 years ago

That might explain why my noun2 sometimes ends up being noun1 with disastrous consequences. That is so wrong.

Adventuron4 years ago

Show me an example of this and I'll resolve it.

Generally speaking, if a standard preposition occurs between a verb and a known noun, then the next noun is noun2.

Adventuron4 years ago

e.g.

If the player enters:

put blah foo jimmy in cupboard

Where:

put is a known verb
blah, foo, and jimmy are non dictionary words
'in' is a standard preposition
cupboard is a known noun

Adventuron would parse as :

verb = put
noun1 = undefined (empty)
noun2 = cupboard

Garry Francis4 years ago

Well, just as an example, there's that one I asked you about offline a couple of days ago. GET BLAH FROM POCKET resulted in s1 = pocket and s2 = pocket. It would help if we knew what the standard prepositions were.

Based on what you said here, I did a bit of experimenting and worked out that if I use a test like :if (preposition_is "from" && noun2_is "pocket") {}, that seems to fix it. Am I on the right track?

Adventuron4 years ago(+1)

You could add propositions in the vocabulary {} section.

The issue you reported the other day was a bug, and was fixed.

I just added an issue to the issue tracker to document the standard verbs and prepositions.

Garry Francis4 years ago

I wondered about that. I had added [in, into, inside] and [on, onto] (because I think I'll need them). The others I'm likely to need are [about], [from] and [with]. I've just added them. It looks like it's okay to have one word in the array. It certainly doesn't complain.

Adventuron4 years ago

Yes, one word in an array is fine.

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