It makes me think of MUDs, specifically my once-upon-a-time favorite, Dragonrealms. It had the usual "command direct-object" syntactical format common to MUDs, but it became an infamous problem to wrestle with the parser to find the correct "obvious" action.

  > put amulet on drawer
  > put amulet in drawer
  > put amulet behind drawer
  > place amulet on drawer
  > give amulet to drawer
  > push amulet to drawer
  > show amulet to drawer