Trouble with 'it' in multi-word commands

Authoring Adventuron
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Here’s the scenario:

>GET CANDLE
You get the candle.

>X IT
It's made of wax.

>GIVE IT TO SANTA
You're not carrying any it.

>DROP IT
You drop the candle.

Why is it that ‘it’ is understood when using verb/noun input, but not when using multi-word input? By adding some debugging code, I can see that noun1 correctly converts ‘it’ to the previously used noun1 (i.e. ‘candle’) in the EXAMINE and DROP commands, but it is left as ‘it’ in the GIVE command.

2

Code snippet please.

3

You can use the code snippet here. Try:

>EXAMINE NOTE
You see nothing special.

>GIVE IT TO VENDOR
You're not carrying any it. <-- 'it' not identified

>GIVE NOTE TO VENDOR
The vendor reads the note and returns it to you.

>DROP IT
You drop the note.