At 11 pm in the library, my Polish drills served up “Lubię jeść babkę,” which the app proudly rendered as “I like to eat grandma.” Linguistically, we’ve got polysemy plus the feminine accusative -ę colliding with selectional restrictions from jeść — so in acquisition terms, should frequency or verb-argument semantics nudge a learner (or model) toward cake over grandmother here?
I kept tripping on this in drills at 11 pm too. > so in acquisition terms, should frequency or verb-argument semantics nudge a learner (or model) toward I trained a simple no-cannibalism heuristic: with jeść, default to food unless you see -cię (babcię = grandma), so babkę => cake; it’s worked in Anki and in conversation, but the slang babka = woman still needs context.