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, Showing it to , Waking , Throwing it at , Attacking , Kissing , Answering it that , Telling it about , Asking it about , Asking it for Showing something to something (past tense shown it to)
Anyone can show anyone
else something which they are carrying, but not some nearby piece of
scenery, say - so this action is suitable for showing the emerald locket
to Katarina, but not showing the Orange River Rock Room to Mr Douglas.
The Standard Rules implement this action in only a minimal way, checking
that it makes sense but then blocking all such attempts with a message
such as 'Katarina is not interested.' - this is the task of the 'block
showing rule'. As a result, there are no carry out or report rules. To
make it into a systematic and interesting action, we would need to
unlist the block showing rule and then to write carry out and report
rules: but usually for IF purposes we only need to make a handful of
special cases of showing work properly, and for those we can simply
write Instead rules to handle them.
Typed commands leading to this action
"show/present/display [someone] [something preferably held]" reversed
"show/present/display [something preferably held] to [someone]"
Rules controlling this action
check an actor showing something to can't show what you haven't got rule
name
unlist 
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check an actor showing something to convert show to yourself to examine rule
name
unlist
check an actor showing something to block showing rule
name
unlist 1
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