Carefully check the spelling and capitalization of the positions you're specifying against the diagram of stage directions, and that the arguments to Puppeteer's commands are in the correct order. For example, !move takes a POS as its second argument and does not alter EMOTE, while !anim does not take a POS argument or an EMOTE argument.
There are a number of working examples in the documentation; you could try changing them bit by bit to approach your use-case. If you're getting yourself confused by a complicated project, try making a new deck from scratch and assembling the smallest possible example that demonstrates the problem you observe.
