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Matt Weiner

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Chapter 14 - Some Response Replacements and Other Messages

The can't take people's possessions rule response (A) is "[The owner] already has that."

The standard report dropping rule response (B) is "[The actor] [put] [the noun] down on the surface."

[I'm actually going to leave "Alpha is unable to do that" as is. Suitably robotic.]

The parser error internal rule response (E) is "[The person asked] [cannot] visually identify any such thing."

The parser error internal rule response (R) is "That command could not be understood. (Note that, other than waiting[if Tutorial is happening], taking off, or waking from the tutorial[otherwise] or taking off[end if], you can only accomplish things by issuing orders to robots: 'ROBOT, GO NORTH' etc. The robots can move around, pick up or drop things, look, take their inventory, and exit from your spaceship if they've entered it.)" [This is "the noun does not make sense in that context," which is the basic syntax error here.]

The parser error internal rule response (X) is "Type 'z' to make time pass. Type 'commands' to see a list of possible commands." ["I beg your pardon?"]

The parser error internal rule response (U) is "It's not clear which robots you mean to address."

The parser clarification internal rule response (D) is "Which do you mean, ". [robot disambiguation shouldn't say "Who"]

The give actor's name in multicommand error rule response (A) is "[printed name of the player]: [run paragraph on]".

Unsuccessful attempt by a robot dropping something when the reason the action failed is the can't drop what's not held rule: say "[The actor] isn't carrying that."