--- title: Parties: teams with ideas — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Parties: teams with ideas», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A political party is like a team built around ideas: people who think alike join together, choose candidates and write a plan of promises calle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/) [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/) / Parties: teams with ideas # Parties: teams with ideas Lesson 4 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/0/) — A political party is like a team built around ideas: people who think alike join together, choose candidates and write a plan of promises called a manifesto, and then try to win elections to carry it out. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/1/) — In the UK the two biggest parties for a long time have been Labour and the Conservatives; in the USA they are the Democrats (whose cartoon symbol is a donkey) and the Republicans (an elephant). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/2/) — "Left" and "right" are rough labels, nothing to do with which hand you write with: the left often wants the government to do more and share more, the right often wants lower taxes, smaller government and to keep traditions, and most people are a mix. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/3/) — Smaller parties bring their own big topics, like the Greens with the environment or the SNP with Scotland running itself, and some candidates belong to no party at all. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/4/) — A family can vote for different parties and still go to the match together; no party is all good or all bad, so a post calling one side "evil" and the other "perfect" is cheering, not news. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/5/) — A political party is a group with shared ideas that tries to win elections; its manifesto is its list of plans and promises. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/6/) — In the UK, Labour and the Conservatives have been the two biggest parties for a long time. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/7/) — The two main US parties are the Democrats and the Republicans (also called the GOP); the donkey and the elephant come from old newspaper cartoons. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/8/) — The left often wants more government spending on shared services and more equality; the right often wants lower taxes, smaller government and tradition; most people hold a mix of views. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/9/) — Green parties put the environment, such as climate change and nature, first, but have plans on other things too; the UK, Ireland and Australia all have one. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/10/) — The SNP, the Scottish National Party, wants Scotland to become independent from the UK; in a 2014 referendum most Scottish voters chose to stay, but the debate goes on. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/11/) — Reform UK is a newer party on the right; it was reported that it rose strongly in opinion polls in 2025; supporters say it speaks for people who feel ignored, critics say its plans are too simple for hard problems. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/12/) — The Liberal Democrats are a UK party often called "the third party"; in the UK system, smaller parties can win many votes but fewer seats. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/13/) — A coalition is when two or more parties share running the government; the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats did this in the UK from 2010 to 2015. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/14/) — An independent is a candidate with no party; independents often win seats in Ireland and Australia. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/15/) — A whip is the person in a party who tries to make sure its members vote the party way. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/16/) — A floating voter changes which party they vote for; a loyal voter always votes for the same one. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/17/) — Partisan means strongly supporting one side; bias means leaning towards one side instead of being fair. - ← previous: [Who can vote, and why children cannot](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/) - next →: [President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)