AutoVoice Command Recognized but not Matched

AutoVoice Recognize (task) shows a very strange behaviour:

from the log:

Code (Text):

Profile Matches - Hard - 2019-03-04 11:04:14.211 - "please (?<vtask>call|message) to (?<vrecepient>.+) " matches "please message to catherine": false

'Regex' is on, I would expect a match here. None of the 2 variables gets set. What am I doing wrong?

My 'vRecepients' are either 1 or 2 words, can I somehow include this into the 'commands recognized'?

 

thanks! this helped!