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Example: * Latin Lessons
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Location: Supplying a missing noun/second noun
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RecipeLocation: Obedient Characters
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Index: Missing nouns supplied in commands to characters
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Description: Supplying missing nouns and second nouns for other characters besides the player.
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For: Z-Machine
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If we're defining actions for other characters to follow, we may want to include them in our "rule for supplying a missing noun". We can do this if we write our "while..." clause to apply to any actor, as follows:
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{*}"Latin Lessons"
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The Latin Studio is a room. Rick is a man in the Studio.
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A dance-name is a kind of thing. Argentine tango, samba, merengue, cha-cha, street salsa are dance-names.
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Dancing is an action applying to one visible thing. Understand "dance [any dance-name]" as dancing. Understand "dance" as dancing.
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Rule for supplying a missing noun while an actor dancing:
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now the noun is street salsa.
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Report someone dancing:
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say "[The actor] dances a few steps of [the noun] for you."
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Report dancing:
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say "You dance a few steps of [the noun]."
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Persuasion rule for asking someone to try dancing: persuasion succeeds.
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Test me with "dance / dance samba / rick, dance / rick, dance merengue".
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