Disambiguation with "any thing" (mild Improv: Origins spoilers)

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Yep, here’s how it works, incorporating some things I learned later in that thread.

An object gets:

  • 1000, 2000, 3000, or 4000 points for the outcome of the “does the player mean” rules (or more generally the ChooseObjects routine)
  • 500 points for being “good”, which is never actually used anywhere
  • 100 points for not having the I6 concealed flag, which is only ever used for the player character by default, but can be set by making a thing “undescribed”
  • 60 points for being in the best location (usually held)
  • 40 points for being in the next-best location (usually the player’s location)
  • 20 points for not being a direction
  • 10 points for not being scenery
  • 5 points for not being the actor
  • 1 point for matching the gender, number, and animacy restrictions of a word in the input (this matters for e.g. German where the gender of the article should be taken into account)
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