the cheese is on the table. The indefinite article of the cheese is "some".
This didn’t quite work when I wrote some cheese is on the table. The room description says “You can see a table (on which are some cheese) here.” This is what @severedhand warned about. I was able to fix it by adding It is singular-named.
Not wanting to repeat these rules I turned it into a kind:
stuff is a kind of thing.
stuff is always singular-named.
The indefinite article of stuff is "some".
So now all of these work like the original example:
The cheese is stuff. It is on the table.
Some cheese is on the table. It is stuff.
A cheese is on the table. It is stuff.
Then I tried the following:
air is stuff.
air is in My Room.
This showed up as “You can see air here.” which made sense. However, when I did x air, it came back as “You see nothing special about air.” But I would have expected it to say “You see nothing special about the air.”
After multiple rabbit holes poking around in the standard rules, inform 6 docs, etc. I finally settled on this:
stuff is a kind of thing.
stuff is always singular-named.
The indefinite article of stuff is "some".
To say the (something - stuff):
say "the [something]".
To say The (something - stuff):
say "The [something]".
I may turn this into an extension…