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petal/internal/vocab/plant.go
prosolis e9b8595456 Let the garden keep what she was given, not only what she sought
Two halves of the same idea, both read out of work Petal already
records.

Planting: an accepted collocation is a learnable chunk, so it becomes a
phrase card. The scheduler didn't need to know — a three-word chunk
climbs the ladder exactly like a looked-up word. What needed care was
deciding what *isn't* a chunk (single words are word choice; a
six-word-plus "collocation" is a rewritten sentence, and sentences make
miserable flashcards), and that the example must be the *corrected*
sentence — the stored draft still holds the phrasing she just left
behind. Re-accepting the same chunk leaves the existing card alone
rather than resetting a schedule it has been climbing. The whole thing
is best-effort: accepting an edit must never fail because a flashcard
couldn't be made.

The growth journal: kept this month beside kept the month before, the
phrasing that stuck, the patterns that faded. The queries were the easy
part; the honesty is the feature. "Stuck" needs the phrase in a *second*
document, because one document is just the edit where she left it.
"Faded" says nothing at all unless she has been writing lately —
otherwise a month away from Petal comes back to her as progress, which
is the one way this could lie. And a suggestion had to start recording
when she *decided* it, not when the model proposed it, so 0012 adds
resolved_at and backfills the old rows to their created_at.

It lives as a second tab in the garden, and it feeds the kitten: after
an accept she now sometimes hears something true of her alone, once per
line, half the time, never waited for.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
2026-07-27 14:16:59 -07:00

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package vocab
import (
"database/sql"
"strings"
"unicode"
)
// Planting: the garden's second source.
//
// Capture (handlers.go) records words the writer *sought out*. Planting records
// phrasing she was gently *given* — an accepted collocation like "make a
// decision" is a learnable chunk exactly like a looked-up word, and the SM-2-lite
// scheduler doesn't care that it's three words rather than one. Together the two
// halves make the garden a record of both sides of learning.
//
// Everything here is best-effort by design: planting hangs off accepting a
// suggestion, and that accept must succeed whether or not a card comes of it.
// Execer is the slice of *sql.DB (or *sql.Tx) that planting needs.
type Execer interface {
Exec(query string, args ...any) (sql.Result, error)
}
// Phrase is one chunk to plant.
type Phrase struct {
Text string // the corrected phrasing, e.g. "make a decision"
Meaning string // why it's better — the suggestion's explanation
Example string // the sentence she met it in, already corrected
DocID *string // where, so "where did I see this?" stays one tap
}
// Phrase-card caps. A collocation is a short chunk; anything longer is a
// rewritten sentence wearing a collocation's label, and a sentence makes a
// miserable flashcard. Both bounds are deliberately tight — the cost of
// skipping a real chunk is one missing card, the cost of planting a sentence is
// a garden the writer stops trusting.
const (
maxPhraseRunes = 60
maxPhraseWords = 6
minPhraseWords = 2
)
// PhraseKey normalizes a replacement into a garden key, or returns "" when the
// text isn't a plantable chunk.
//
// Lowercasing matches capture's normalization, so a phrase and a looked-up word
// share one UNIQUE(user_id, word) namespace rather than colliding sideways.
// Single words are rejected on purpose: a one-word fix is word choice, and word
// choice already reaches the garden through lookup — planting it here would give
// it a card with no gloss and no phonetic, which reviews badly.
func PhraseKey(text string) string {
// Collapse all whitespace (a replacement can carry a newline from the
// editor) so the key is stable and the word count is honest.
s := strings.Join(strings.Fields(strings.ToLower(text)), " ")
// Trim the punctuation a phrase picks up from the sentence around it, but
// leave inner marks alone: "can't afford" and "in one's own time" are chunks.
s = strings.Trim(s, `.,;:!?…"'“”‘’()[]`)
s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
if s == "" || len([]rune(s)) > maxPhraseRunes {
return ""
}
n := len(strings.Fields(s))
if n < minPhraseWords || n > maxPhraseWords {
return ""
}
// A chunk of pure digits or symbols ("12 000", "-- --") isn't vocabulary.
if !strings.ContainsFunc(s, unicode.IsLetter) {
return ""
}
return s
}
// Plant adds a phrase card to the garden, due tomorrow like any fresh capture.
// It reports whether a new card was created.
//
// ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, unlike capture's refresh-the-context upsert: accepting
// the same collocation again months later is evidence the chunk is still being
// learned, and the last thing that should do is overwrite the card's first
// context or disturb a schedule it has been climbing. An existing card wins.
func Plant(ex Execer, userID string, p Phrase) (bool, error) {
key := PhraseKey(p.Text)
if key == "" {
return false, nil
}
res, err := ex.Exec(
`INSERT INTO vocab_words (user_id, word, gloss, definition, phonetic, example, doc_id, due_at, interval_days)
VALUES (?, ?, '', ?, '', ?, ?, datetime('now', '+1 day'), 1)
ON CONFLICT(user_id, word) DO NOTHING`,
userID, key,
clamp(strings.TrimSpace(p.Meaning), maxDefinitionLen),
clamp(strings.TrimSpace(p.Example), maxExampleLen),
p.DocID,
)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
n, err := res.RowsAffected()
return n > 0, err
}