Requirements: must
A must line states what has to be true for the action to proceed, and
names the phrase spoken when it is not. The subject opens the line in
lowercase (the, it, or its), which is how a requirement stays
distinct from prose. One fixture exercises every form:
on stocking it
it must be a tool: not-a-tool
it must be any loose-tool: already-racked
the player must be in the Potting Bench: too-far-away
the player must hold the secateurs: hands-empty
the player must see the tool rack: too-dark
the player must reach the tool rack: out-of-reach
phrase racked
end on
must be a/an tests kind, must be in tests place, must be any
tests membership in an open condition, plain must be compares
a state or value, must have/hold/wear test possession, and must see/reach test scope. Requirements are legal in on bodies and as
define action lines, never in
after bodies.
There is deliberately no must not. Requirements are positive;
prohibitions are refusals, and the two forms sit naturally side by
side:
on sharpening it
it must be dull: already-sharp
refuse when the player wears the gardening mittens: mittens-on
change it to sharp
phrase sharpened
end on
Writing must not … (or must be no …) is a parse error
(parse.must-negative) whose fix-it points at refuse when.