--- title: Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every sweet treat starts as a plant. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/) [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/) / Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the… # Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats Lesson 347 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/0/) — Every sweet treat starts as a plant. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/1/) — Sugar comes from the stems of sugar cane, a giant grass taller than a grown-up, or from the pale roots of sugar beet in cool countries. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/2/) — The plant stored that sugar as food for itself, and we squeeze it out and boil it into crystals. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/3/) — Chocolate starts as a bitter bean. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/4/) — Cocoa pods grow straight out of the trunk of the cacao tree, and inside each one sit about 20 to 50 beans in sweet white pulp. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/5/) — Only after fermenting, drying and roasting do they start to smell of chocolate. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/6/) — Tea and coffee are plants too. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/7/) — Green tea and black tea come from the very same bush, and every coffee bean is a seed, usually one of two lying flat side to flat side in a red coffee cherry. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/8/) — Many of these plants make caffeine or similar chemicals to defend themselves from insects. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/9/) — That is why coffee and energy drinks keep people awake, and why chocolate can make a dog very ill. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/10/) — Sugar cane is a giant grass that stores sugar in its stems; the stems are crushed for juice, which is boiled until sugar crystals form, and Brazil and India grow the most. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/11/) — The crushed cane stems left over are burned to power the sugar mills. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/12/) — Most sugar made in Britain comes from sugar beet, a pale root that grows in cool countries where cane cannot, and white sugar from beet and cane is the same. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/13/) — Cocoa pods grow on the trunk and big branches, hold about 20 to 50 beans in sweet pulp, and their tiny flowers are pollinated by small flies called midges. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/14/) — Fresh cocoa beans taste bitter and smell of chocolate only after fermenting, drying and roasting. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/15/) — In Mexico and Central America cocoa was drunk bitter, frothy and sometimes spicy, and the Aztecs used cocoa beans as money; today most cocoa grows in West Africa, especially Ivory Coast and Ghana. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/16/) — Chocolate contains theobromine, which dogs break down very slowly, so it can make them very ill, dark chocolate most of all. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/18/) — Fruit and herbal teas are not really tea, just other plants in hot water. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/19/) — Tea came from China, and in the 1800s the British started big tea gardens in India, in Assam and Darjeeling; Britons are reported to drink about 100 million cups a day. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/21/) — Coffee plants first grew wild in Ethiopia; the story of a goatherd named Kaldi whose goats danced after eating the berries is a legend nobody can prove. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/22/) — Caffeine is a bitter defence that helps protect plants from insects; it keeps people awake and hits children harder because their bodies are smaller, and many British shops will not sell energy drinks to under-16s. - ← previous: [Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/) - next →: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)