--- title: School councils and class reps — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «School councils and class reps», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A class rep is a pupil chosen by the class to speak for it at the school council, a small parliament of pupils that meets with teachers to --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/) [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/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / School councils and class reps # School councils and class reps Lesson 37 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/0/) — A class rep is a pupil chosen by the class to speak for it at the school council, a small parliament of pupils that meets with teachers to make school better. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/1/) — Running is like a mini election: you are a candidate, you give a short speech, and the best promises are ones you can really try to keep, like asking for more football time, not "free sweets every Friday". - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/2/) — Fair voting needs a secret ballot, slips of paper in a box, so nobody votes just to please a best friend, and no lollies for votes, because that is a bribe. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/3/) — The council has a budget, a fixed amount of money, so it must choose; a good rep listens to the teachers' reasons too and carries messages both ways. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/4/) — Losing hurts, but a fair vote is still fair; a good meeting has a chair who makes room for every voice, even the youngest and quietest. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/5/) — A class rep speaks for the class at the school council; a person trying to get elected is called a candidate. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/6/) — A campaign promise is something a candidate says they will do; promising what you cannot make happen makes people cross later. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/7/) — A short speech with three clear ideas said slowly works better than lots of fast ones, and grown-up politicians do the same. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/8/) — When people can see how you vote they may vote to please friends, which is why real elections use a secret ballot. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/9/) — Accepting that you lost a fair vote is called conceding, and you can still share your ideas afterwards. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/10/) — A budget is a plan for how to spend a fixed amount of money, so a council must choose a priority, like a playground or a library. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/11/) — A representative speaks for a group and also brings back what happened, including the other side's reasons. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/12/) — Some countries, such as New Zealand, have youth parliaments where young people debate in the real chamber and send ideas to politicians, though their votes do not make laws. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/14/) — Giving gifts for votes is a bribe, and in real elections paying or gifting people for votes is against the law in most countries. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/15/) — A survey asks lots of people the same question; a referendum is when a whole country votes on one big question. - ← previous: [Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/) - next →: [Protests, petitions and young activists](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)