Lingq recognizes wrong word combinations (Chinese)

Occasionally Lingq combines the wrong words to assign meaning to them.
Here is an example: 吴 飞过来
Meaning: Wu Fei come over (“Wu Fei” is a name)

I would like to lingq 过来 (come over),
but Lingq automatically chooses 飞过来 (=fly over)

There are several cases like this and they do not all involve names. I understand there are limitations to Lingq ability to guess the right meaning, but is there a way to manually override this? As far as I can see, I am left with either accepting the nonsensical Lingq suggestion or ignoring the word…

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I agree that this detracts from the LingQ experience for Chinese. If you can edit the source material, you can force LingQ to parse correctly by inserting spaces between the words.

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Just open the lesson edit and add a space there. Believe me, the parser is 10x better in Mandarin than Cantonese.

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