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Section 3 - Moving Toward

Moving toward is an action applying to one thing. Understand "go toward/towards/to [something]" or "move toward/towards/to [something]" or "walk toward/towards/to [something]" or "run toward/towards/to [something]" as moving toward.

A terrain feature is usually privately-named.

Understand "ridge" as a ridge when the person asked surveys the item described.

Understand "crater" as a crater when the person asked surveys the item described.

Understand "peak" as a peak when the person asked surveys the item described.

Understand the texture property as describing a terrain feature when the person asked surveys the item described. [This prevents the terrain feature's name from getting parsed unless that particular robot can see it. That prevents the commands from disambiguating all ridges, e.g.]

Understand "go toward/towards/to [a beacon]" or "move toward/towards/to [a beacon]" or "walk toward/towards/to [a beacon]" or "run toward/towards/to [something]" as moving toward.

Check an actor moving toward when the noun is not a beacon and person asked does not survey the noun (this is the robots can't move toward what they can't see rule): stop the action.

Unsuccessful attempt by a robot doing something when the reason the action failed is the robots can't move toward what they can't see rule: say "[Person asked] is not able to locate [the noun] and cannot move toward it." [Though we shouldn't get there, since the various restrictions on Understand rules should prevent this action from even getting parsed.--Actually it does happen for the Russ, which is fine because that won't present disambiguation problems or spoil identities.]

Check an actor moving toward an unresponsive beacon (this is the fried beacons don't work rule): stop the action.

Unsuccessful attempt by a robot doing something when the reason the action failed is the fried beacons don't work rule: say "[The noun] has overheated and no longer functions as a beacon."

Check an actor moving toward when the person asked is right next to the noun (this is the already reached the goal rule): stop the action.

Unsuccessful attempt by a robot moving toward something when the reason the action failed is the already reached the goal rule: say "[The person asked] is already there." [Had to bop the message that referred to the noun, because it could spoil robot names--though that'd hardly be a spoiler since you can just cross-reference the descriptions]

Carry out a robot (called bot) moving toward something (called the goal):

let the way be the direction the goal lies from the bot;

try the bot going the way.

[and may as well let this stuff be understood for directions...]

Understand "go toward/to [direction]" or "move toward/to [direction]" or "walk toward/to [direction]" or "run toward/to [direction]" as going.