i tried , talk,hold , dance. ellen worked :)
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That seems like it could be a parsing issue. The game is expecting commands in a "[verb] [noun]" format, with a space in the middle. So "talk ellen" should work.
I just tried it and it looks like submitting a verb with no noun skips the rest of the function. (It should go to an exception handler, and a verb with no noun should do the same.) What ending do you get for just a noun?