--- title: Chocolate and sweets — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Chocolate and sweets», a lesson of the technology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Chocolate starts as bitter beans inside big pods on cocoa trees in hot countries, mostly in West Africa, and ends as a shiny bar in a lunchbox tho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / Chocolate and sweets # Chocolate and sweets Lesson 2 of the technology course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/0/) — Chocolate starts as bitter beans inside big pods on cocoa trees in hot countries, mostly in West Africa, and ends as a shiny bar in a lunchbox thousands of kilometres away. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/1/) — In between, machines roast and grind the beans, stir the paste with sugar and milk for hours, warm and cool it in a careful pattern, pour it into moulds and wrap the bars faster than you can count. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/2/) — Gummy bears are poured into shapes pressed in trays of cornflour, boiled sweets are really a kind of sugar glass, and shiny coloured sweets get their shells by tumbling in a drum for hours. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/3/) — If a bar left in a hot car melts and sets again, it turns grey and crumbly: the fat has set the wrong way, but it is still safe to eat. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/5/) — Cocoa beans grow in pods on cocoa trees, mostly in West Africa, especially Ivory Coast and Ghana, and many are grown on small family farms. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/6/) — Many cocoa farmers earn only a small part of the price of a bar; fair-trade schemes try to pay them more, and people still argue about how well these schemes work. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/7/) — Farmers cut the pods, scoop out the beans, let them ferment (slowly change and turn a little sour, helped by tiny living things) under leaves for several days and dry them in the sun before they are shipped. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/8/) — Fresh cocoa beans taste bitter and nothing like chocolate; the chocolate taste comes from fermenting and roasting. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/9/) — In the factory the beans are roasted, ground into a paste, mixed with sugar and often milk, stirred for hours, tempered, poured into moulds, cooled and wrapped by machines. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/10/) — Tempering means warming and cooling melted chocolate in a careful pattern so the fat sets in neat tiny crystals that make the chocolate glossy and make it snap cleanly. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/12/) — Filled bars are made by laying caramel or nougat as a long sheet, cutting it into bars and passing them on a wire belt through a falling curtain of melted chocolate, with a pool below for the bottoms; this is called enrobing. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/13/) — Gummy sweets are made by squirting hot syrup with gelatine or pectin into shapes pressed in trays of cornflour; the powder is sieved, dried and used again. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/14/) — A lollipop or boiled sweet is sugar syrup boiled until almost all the water is gone, so it sets hard, glassy and see-through, really a kind of sugar glass. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/15/) — Chewing gum is a rubbery gum base kneaded with sugar or sweetener and flavour; long ago people chewed a tree sap called chicle, and most gum base today is made in factories; spat gum on pavements costs towns a lot to clean. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/16/) — Shiny coloured sweets and sprinkles get their shells by panning: they tumble in big rotating drums while thin coats of sugar syrup and colour are sprayed on and dried, coat after coat, for hours. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/17/) — Wrapping machines wrap each sweet in film from a big roll and seal it with hot jaws, hundreds a minute, with guards in front and the machine stopped before any jam is cleared. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/18/) — A best-before date is about quality and a use-by date on fresh food is about safety; the batch number printed beside it lets a factory recall every packet from one bad batch. - ← previous: [How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/1-how-a-factory-works/) - next →: [Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/3-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy/) - ↑ back to [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/)