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An interactive fiction by Emily Short (2006) - the Inform 7 source text
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Understand "use [a ringer]" as attacking.
Understand "use [an edible thing]" as eating.
Understand "use [a wearable thing]" as wearing.
Understand "use [a closed openable container]" as opening. Understand "use [an open openable container]" as closing.
Understand "use [something preferably held] on [a locked lockable thing]" as unlocking it with (with nouns reversed). Understand "use [something preferably held] on [an unlocked lockable thing]" as locking it with (with nouns reversed).
Understand "use [a switched off device]" as switching on.
Understand "use [something]" as using. Using is an action applying to one thing. Carry out using: say "You will have to be more specific about your intentions."
Understand "use [a door]" as opening. Understand "use [an open door]" as entering.
[And by a similar token, these create preferences in the parser so that the game will try the most obvious items first:]
Understand the commands "revive" or "resuscitate" as "wake".
Understand "eat [an edible thing]" as eating. Understand "wear [a wearable thing]" as wearing. Understand "open [something closed]" as opening. Understand "close [something open]" as closing. Understand "enter [something enterable]" as entering. Understand "enter [a door]" as entering.
Before eating something which is not carried by the player: try taking the noun; if the player does not have the noun, stop the action.
Before wearing something which is not carried by the player: if the noun is worn, continue the action; try taking the noun; if the player does not have the noun, stop the action.