--- title: Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A fruit is the part of a plant that grows from a flower and holds its seeds. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, s… # Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow Lesson 346 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/0/) — A fruit is the part of a plant that grows from a flower and holds its seeds. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/1/) — Cut an apple across the middle and you find a five-pointed star: five little rooms, one for each part of the flower, with up to two pips in each. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/2/) — Fruit grows in surprising ways. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/3/) — Bananas grow on a giant herb, not a tree, and the fruits curve upwards towards the light. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/4/) — A pineapple is a hundred or more tiny flowers grown together, and a strawberry wears its seeds on the outside. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/6/) — A ripe apple gives off a gas called ethylene that tells nearby fruit to ripen, which is why a hard green banana shut in a paper bag with an apple ripens fast, and why one rotten apple spoils the bowl. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/7/) — And watch the dog: grapes and raisins that are a healthy snack for you can badly damage a dog's kidneys, so if a dog eats some, tell a grown-up straight away. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/8/) — An apple's seeds sit in five little rooms arranged in a star, with up to ten pips, two in each room, and pears and quinces hide the same star. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/9/) — A tree grown from an apple pip gives apples that differ from the parent, because each pip has two parents, the tree and the tree whose pollen a bee brought, so orchards grow the same kind by grafting, joining a twig of a good tree onto young roots. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/10/) — Every Granny Smith tree comes from one seedling found in Australia around 1868 by Maria Ann Smith. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/12/) — Almost all shop bananas are one kind, Cavendish; an older kind, Gros Michel, was nearly wiped out by a plant disease in the 1950s. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/13/) — Most oranges have about ten segments, each packed with tiny juice bags that grew from hairs inside the flower, but the number changes from orange to orange. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/14/) — In hot countries oranges can be ripe and sweet while still green, because the skin turns orange only when cool nights break down the green colour. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/15/) — A strawberry carries about 200 seeds on its outside, each really a tiny fruit, and the red juicy part is the swollen base of the flower; strawberry plants also make new plants from long runners. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/16/) — Grapes grow on a woody climbing vine that clings with curly tendrils and is pruned hard each winter; raisins and sultanas are dried grapes. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/17/) — The Great Vine at Hampton Court Palace near London was planted in 1768 and still gives grapes. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/18/) — Grapes and raisins can badly damage a dog's kidneys even in small amounts; scientists think a natural acid in grapes is to blame. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/19/) — Ripe fruit gives off ethylene gas, which makes nearby fruit ripen, and shippers keep bananas cold and away from it on long trips, then release the gas in ripening rooms. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/20/) — A pineapple grows one at a time from the middle of a low spiky plant, takes about a year and a half or more, and is made of a hundred or more tiny flowers grown together; its leafy top can be planted. - ← previous: [Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/) - next →: [Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)