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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def surface(cls, predstr):
 """Instantiate a Pred from its quoted string representation."""

        lemma, pos, sense, _ = split_pred_string(predstr)
        return cls(Pred.SURFACE, lemma, pos, sense, predstr)