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Standard actions concerning other people
Giving it to , 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 1

A "[We] [aren't] holding [the noun]." name set

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

A "[The second noun] [are] unimpressed." name set

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