Strange Matcher behavior with * quantifier and two rules

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I'm not sure why these two rules are resulting in a match on the given text. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

nlp = spacy.load('en')
doc = nlp("I took out the trash.")
matcher = Matcher(nlp.vocab)
matcher.add("rule1", None, [
	{'TAG': 'VBD'},
	{'LOWER': 'the'},
	{'POS': 'NOUN'}
])
matcher.add("rule2", None, [
	{'TAG': 'VBD'},
	{'IS_ALPHA': True, 'OP': '*'},
	{'LOWER': 'any'},
	{'LOWER': 'words'}
])
matches = matcher(doc)
for (match_id, start, end) in matches:
	span = doc[start:end]
	
	label = doc.vocab.strings[match_id]
	
	print(label)
	print(str(span))

The result is a match on rule 1:

rule1
took out the trash

But rule 1 shouldn't allow the word "out." Removing either rule results in no matches.

Your Environment

• Operating System: macOS 10.13.3
• Python Version Used: 3.6.4
• spaCy Version Used: 2.0.8

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Thanks for your report – this issue has since been fixed on the feature/better-faster-matcher branch. It will be included in the upcoming v2.1.0, together with various other improvements and bug fixes to the matcher. For more details on this, check out the Matcher master issue in #1971.

(Closing this and merging with #1971 to keep things in one place!)

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