Assertion: pear's fruit | /r/HasProperty | softened by frost
Facets:
value: in the fall
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The inedible fruits of the Callery pear are small (less than one cm in diameter), and hard, almost woody, until softened by frost, after which they are readily taken by birds, which disperse the seeds in their droppings.
text: The fruit — more like hard little berries — that the tree produces is softened by frost in the fall and favored by birds, who have deposited the seeds everywhere you look, pushing out other native trees.