--- title: Nuts, beans, seeds and spices — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Nuts, beans and many spices are seeds or other plant parts that plants pack with food or guard with strong tastes. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/) [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/) / Nuts, beans, seeds and spices # Nuts, beans, seeds and spices Lesson 348 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/0/) — Nuts, beans and many spices are seeds or other plant parts that plants pack with food or guard with strong tastes. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/1/) — A peanut is not even a true nut: it is a cousin of peas and beans, and after its yellow flower fades the stalk bends down and pushes the pod into the soil to grow underground. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/2/) — Open a pea pod and count: usually five to ten peas, each a seed. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/3/) — A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants and counted their colours and shapes, and found out how features pass from parents to children. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/4/) — Some seeds protect themselves. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/5/) — Raw kidney beans hold a substance that makes people sick until they are boiled hard, and the shell of a cashew holds an oil that burns skin, which is why you never see cashews in their shells in a shop. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/6/) — Spices come from every part of a plant: pepper is a berry, saffron is the red threads in a crocus flower, and cinnamon is curled-up tree bark. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/7/) — Long ago they came from far away and were worth a fortune. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/8/) — After a peanut flower fades its stalk pushes into the soil and the pod grows underground, safe from birds; peanuts are related to peas and beans. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/9/) — In a nut allergy the body's defence system overreacts to a harmless food, causing a rash, a swollen face or trouble breathing; then fetch an adult straight away and call 999, and people with severe allergies may carry an adrenaline pen. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/11/) — Baked beans are usually haricot beans, which first came from the Americas. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/12/) — Bean and pea plants have lumps on their roots holding bacteria that take nitrogen, a gas in the air that plants need to grow, out of the air, so the soil is richer afterwards and farmers plant beans before wheat. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/13/) — Raw or undercooked kidney beans contain a natural substance that makes people sick, proper boiling destroys it, and tinned beans are already cooked and safe. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/14/) — A coconut has three eyes, but only one is soft, and the baby plant pushes out of it; its thick husk lets it float for months and sprout on far beaches. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/15/) — The cashew nut grows under a fleshy cashew apple, and its shell holds an oily liquid that burns skin, so cashews are sold shelled and cooked. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/16/) — The seeds in a sunflower head sit in two sets of spirals turning opposite ways, often 34 and 55, numbers from a pattern where each is the sum of the two before: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/17/) — Black, white and green peppercorns are the same berry of a climbing vine from India, and pepper was once so valuable it was used to pay rent; a peppercorn rent now means a tiny token payment. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/19/) — Cinnamon is the inner bark of a tree, peeled and dried so it curls; Sri Lanka is famous for true cinnamon, and cheaper cassia comes from a related tree. - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)