This means that, for instance, the reordering pattern learned by our example HSMT grammar ( Figure 5, rule 1) may only be used to reorder the specific verb form jdd (renewed) in subsequent test sentences.
hSMT is likely to work better for languages where the syntactic role of phrases is mostly expressed by separate function words (e.g., Chinese) than for languages where this information is largely conveyed by word inflection (e.g., Russian).