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+__pycache__/
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+# Task: Run `scripts/extract_omw.py` locally → generates `packages/db/src/seed.json`
+
+**Goal**: Produce a committed, validated JSON file containing 1000 English-Italian noun pairs ranked by frequency.  
+**Done when**: `packages/db/src/seed.json` exists in version control with exactly 1000 entries, all validated.
+
+---
+
+## Step 1: Python Environment Setup
+
+**Prerequisites**: Python 3.11+ installed locally (not in Docker)
+
+- [x] Create `scripts/requirements.txt`:
+
+nltk>=3.8
+
+- [x] add to `.gitignore`:
+
+venv/
+pycache/
+*.pyc
+
+- [x] Create virtual environment:
+
+```bash
+cd scripts
+python -m venv venv
+source venv/bin/activate
+```
+
+-  [x] Install dependencies:
+
+```bash
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+- [x] Create scripts/download_data.py to fetch NLTK corpora:
+
+```Python
+import nltk
+
+def main():
+    print("Downloading WordNet...")
+    nltk.download("wordnet")
+
+    print("Downloading OMW 1.4...")
+    nltk.download("omw-1.4")
+
+    print("Downloading WordNet IC...")
+    nltk.download("wordnet_ic")
+
+    print("Done.")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+```
+
+- [x] Run it once to cache data locally (~100MB in ~/nltk_data/):
+
+```bash
+    python download_data.py
+```
+
+- [x] Verify data downloaded: check ~/nltk_data/corpora/ exists with wordnet, omw, wordnet_ic folders
+
+## Step 2: Data Exploration (Throwaway Script)
+
+Before writing extraction logic, understand the data shape.
+
+    [ ] Create scripts/explore.py:
+        Import nltk.corpus.wordnet as wn
+        Import nltk.corpus.wordnet_ic as wnic
+        Load semcor_ic = wnic.ic('ic-semcor.dat')
+    [ ] Print sample synset:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    dog = wn.synset('dog.n.01')
+    print(f"Offset: {dog.offset():08d}")
+    print(f"POS: {dog.pos()}")
+    print(f"English lemmas: {dog.lemma_names()}")
+    print(f"Italian lemmas: {dog.lemma_names(lang='ita')}")
+    print(f"Frequency: {dog.res_similarity(dog, semcor_ic)}")
+
+    [ ] Test 5 common words: dog, house, car, water, time
+    [ ] Document findings:
+        [ ] Synset ID format confirmed: {offset:08d}{pos} → 02084071n
+        [ ] Italian availability: what percentage have translations?
+        [ ] Multi-word handling: underscores in lemma_names()?
+        [ ] Frequency scores: numeric range and distribution
+    [ ] Test edge cases:
+        [ ] Word with multiple synsets (homonyms): bank, run
+        [ ] Word with multiple Italian translations per synset
+        [ ] Word with no Italian translation
+    [ ] Delete or keep explore.py (optional reference)
+
+Decision checkpoint: Confirm frequency ranking strategy
+
+    Option A: synset.count() — raw lemma occurrence count
+    Option B: res_similarity with SemCor IC — information content score
+    Document choice and rationale in comments
+
+## Step 3: Extraction Script Implementation
+
+Create scripts/extract_omw.py with the full pipeline.
+
+    [ ] Imports and setup:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    import json
+    from collections import defaultdict
+    from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn
+    from nltk.corpus import wordnet_ic
+
+    [ ] Load information content for frequency ranking:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    semcor_ic = wordnet_ic.ic('ic-semcor.dat')
+
+    [ ] Define target count and output path:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    TARGET_COUNT = 1000
+    OUTPUT_PATH = '../packages/db/src/seed.json'
+
+    [ ] Iterate all noun synsets and collect candidates:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    candidates = []
+    for synset in wn.all_synsets(pos='n'):
+        italian_lemmas = synset.lemma_names(lang='ita')
+        if not italian_lemmas:
+            continue
+        
+        english_lemmas = synset.lemma_names()
+        
+        # Calculate frequency score
+        try:
+            # Using self-similarity as frequency proxy
+            freq_score = synset.res_similarity(synset, semcor_ic)
+        except Exception:
+            freq_score = 0
+        
+        candidates.append({
+            'synset': synset,
+            'offset': synset.offset(),
+            'pos': synset.pos(),
+            'freq_score': freq_score,
+            'english': english_lemmas,
+            'italian': italian_lemmas,
+        })
+
+    [ ] Sort by frequency descending:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    candidates.sort(key=lambda x: x['freq_score'], reverse=True)
+
+    [ ] Slice top 1000:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    top_1000 = candidates[:TARGET_COUNT]
+
+    [ ] Build output structure matching schema needs:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    seed_data = []
+    for rank, candidate in enumerate(top_1000, start=1):
+        # Normalize multi-word expressions: replace underscores with spaces
+        english_normalized = [w.replace('_', ' ') for w in candidate['english']]
+        italian_normalized = [w.replace('_', ' ') for w in candidate['italian']]
+        
+        seed_data.append({
+            'synset_id': f"wn:{candidate['offset']:08d}{candidate['pos']}",
+            'pos': 'noun',  # Map 'n' to full word for schema
+            'frequency_rank': rank,
+            'english_lemmas': english_normalized,
+            'italian_lemmas': italian_normalized,
+        })
+
+    [ ] Write formatted JSON:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    with open(OUTPUT_PATH, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+        json.dump(seed_data, f, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
+
+    print(f"Generated {len(seed_data)} entries at {OUTPUT_PATH}")
+
+Edge cases to handle:
+
+    [ ] Skip synsets with empty Italian list (already filtered)
+    [ ] Handle res_similarity exceptions (some synsets lack IC data)
+    [ ] Normalize underscores to spaces in all lemmas
+    [ ] Ensure UTF-8 encoding for Italian characters (à, è, ì, ò, ù)
+
+## Step 4: Validation Script
+Create scripts/validate_seed.py to verify output quality.
+
+    [ ] Load and parse JSON:
+    Python
+    Copy
+
+    import json
+    from pathlib import Path
+
+    SEED_PATH = '../packages/db/src/seed.json'
+
+    with open(SEED_PATH, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+
+    [ ] Run validation checks:
+        [ ] Count check: len(data) == 1000
+        [ ] Rank check: all entries have frequency_rank from 1 to 1000, no gaps, no duplicates
+        [ ] Synset ID format: matches regex ^wn:\d{8}[nvar]$ (noun, verb, adjective, adverb)
+        [ ] POS check: all are noun (since we filtered pos='n')
+        [ ] Italian presence: every entry has italian_lemmas with at least 1 item
+        [ ] English presence: every entry has english_lemmas with at least 1 item
+        [ ] No duplicate synset IDs
+        [ ] No empty strings in lemma arrays
+        [ ] No leading/trailing whitespace in lemmas
+    [ ] Print summary statistics:
+        Total entries
+        Average English lemmas per entry
+        Average Italian lemmas per entry
+        Sample entries (ranks 1, 500, 1000) for manual inspection
+    [ ] Exit with error code if any check fails
+
+## Step 5: Execution and Iteration
+
+    [ ] Run extraction:
+    bash
+    Copy
+
+    cd scripts
+    source venv/bin/activate
+    python extract_omw.py
+
+    [ ] Run validation:
+    bash
+    Copy
+
+    python validate_seed.py
+
+    [ ] If validation fails, fix extract_omw.py and re-run:
+        [ ] Too few entries? Relax filters or reduce target count
+        [ ] Data quality issues? Add normalization logic
+        [ ] Format mismatches? Adjust output structure
+    [ ] Manual sanity check: open seed.json, read first 10 and last 10 entries
+        Do translations make sense?
+        Are frequencies plausible (common words first)?
+
+## Step 6: Git Integration
+
+    [ ] Verify file location: packages/db/src/seed.json
+    [ ] Check file size: should be ~200-500KB (if larger, investigate)
+    [ ] Stage the file:
+    bash
+    Copy
+
+    git add packages/db/src/seed.json
+
+    [ ] Commit with descriptive message:
+    plain
+    Copy
+
+    feat(data): add seed.json with 1000 English-Italian noun pairs
+
+    Generated from WordNet 3.0 + OMW 1.4 using SemCor IC frequency ranking.
+    Top entry: dog/cane (rank 1). Bottom entry: [word] (rank 1000).
+
+    [ ] Push to current feature branch
+
+## Step 7: Documentation Update
+
+    [ ] Update documentation/decisions.md with:
+        [ ] Frequency ranking method chosen (SemCor IC vs count) and why
+        [ ] How multi-word expressions are handled (underscore → space)
+        [ ] OMW data quality notes (coverage percentage, any manual fixes)
+        [ ] Seed file structure (for future maintainers)
+
+Definition of Done
+
+    [ ] scripts/extract_omw.py exists and runs without errors
+    [ ] scripts/validate_seed.py passes all checks
+    [ ] packages/db/src/seed.json committed to git with exactly 1000 entries
+    [ ] Manual sample check confirms sensible translations
+    [ ] decisions.md updated with extraction methodology
+    [ ] Virtual environment and Python cache files are gitignored
+
+Out of Scope (for this task)
+
+    Distractor generation (happens in API layer later)
+    Additional parts of speech (verbs, adjectives)
+    Data updates/re-seeding strategy (MVP assumes static seed)
+    Database insertion (next task: seed.ts)
diff --git a/mise.toml b/mise.toml
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@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 [tools]
 node = "24.14.0"
+python = "latest"
diff --git a/scripts/download_data.py b/scripts/download_data.py
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+import nltk
+
+
+def main():
+    print("Downloading WordNet...")
+    nltk.download("wordnet")
+
+    print("Downloading OMW 1.4...")
+    nltk.download("omw-1.4")
+
+    print("Downloading WordNet IC...")
+    nltk.download("wordnet_ic")
+
+    print("Done.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
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+nltk>=3.8