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I am not a teacher.

Do you mean apart from the fact that it's nonsense?

I imagine it's supposed to be humorous, but it is full of factual errors.

We don't say "comes out of a tree". "Comes from a tree" or, "grows on trees" would be more natural. And it's not the cocoa that grows on trees but the cocoa beans. And how many trees do you know that are salad?
 
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I agree that it should be "comes from trees". As for the rest, since it is intended to be humorous, it is fine.
 

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I'd put a comma a comma before which and the last sentence is not a sentence. However, as Mike says, it doesn't matter.
 

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What's the reason that "come out a of tree" is unnatural?
 

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Beans grow on a tree and come from a tree. They were not "in the tree" and do not come "out of the tree".
 

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I wouldn't worry too much about it. People disagree about language all the time.
 

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Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the admin of this page that his post is unnatural. He insists on that I'm on the wrong track because I'm a non-native speaker. He claims that all the factual sentences are common in English. :shock:
It's all natural enough. I'd probably say cocoa "comes from a tree" rather than "comes out of a tree." Apart from that, and the perhaps the comma, there's nothing unnatural about it - for what it is. It's humour. It's not factual. It's not logical. And it's not unnatural.
Perhaps the admin is right?
 
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