Villagers will take items when thrown or dropped in front of them or near them, Shovels, Soil, Swords, and other items. See link to google drive video.
Seed we are both using is 1404998407
Video shows villager collecting soil.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxcM6y0zTEtgQ0hNWVNFMW1id1E/view?usp=sharing
Please do not mark issues as private, unless your bug report is an exploit or contains information about your username or server.
Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as a Duplicate of MCPE-20205
It has been linked to this report. If you have additional information, please add it to that report.
Please search before reporting, as it's likely that one exists already.
Quick Links:
📓 Issue Guidelines – 💬 Community Support – 📧 Customer Support – 📖 Game Wiki