English Phrase FST assumes definitions in itwewina format (not language agnostic)

[fbanados]

Looks like the english phrase FSTs make strong assumptions about the sentence structure for translation, based on itwewina. This means things like 3s as the standard form in the definition, which is not the case e.g. in WordNet definitions which take the infinitive.

For a search, say, of "I ate", eventually we would have an appropriate analysis to inflect over the definition. In wordnet, we have "take in solid food". Because it's not 3s, the inflection does not change the phrase. If the definition were instead "s/he takes in solid food", then we could inflect it in the results. However, we currently can't (only because of the FST, I've written the code although it needs more testing)

In general the definition structure for the english side should be more flexible, with some way to specify in the system the structure of the definitions or at least accept infinitive-based definitions which seem pretty common in our currently supported target language.