I don't understand

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I don’t understand why the understand rule is not working in my program.

[code]The mound of dirt is a thing in Cemetery.

Understand “dirt” as “mound of dirt.”[/code]

This produces the message:

Problem. You wrote ‘Understand “dirt” as “mound of dirt.”’ : but if ‘understand … as …’ gives the meaning as text then it must describe a single new token, so that ‘Understand “group four/five/six” as “[department]”’ is legal (defining a new token “[department]”, or adding to its definition if it already existed) but ‘Understand “take [thing]” as “drop [thing]”’ is not allowed, and would not make sense, because “drop [thing]” is a combination of two existing tokens - not a single new one.

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By default, it already recognizes “dirt” as “mound of dirt”. I dunno if that is what is making it unhappy, but you don’t need that Understand.

edit: Er, but if you do, it should probably be Understand “dirt” as the mound of dirt.

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Lux is correct–but also, you don’t need the second set of quotation marks. It should be:

Understand "dirt" as the mound of dirt.

The first one is a quoted string (or something like that), the second one is an object you’ve defined (or sometimes a kind of thing, or some other things.)

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DOH!
Thanks to both.