Buttons not working when pasting frames of movie clip in another movie clip - newbie

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i have a movie clip that I copied all the frames from then created a new movie clip and pasted the copied frames but. it works but the buttons dont work?

here’s the code

gotoAndPlay(this.menu[“item” add _root.button] add “:s1”);
_root.link = _root.button;

I get the following error:

‘]’ expected