--- title: President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The USA has a president, chosen by voters in a separate election, who is both head of the country and head o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/) [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/) / President and Prime Minister, White Ho… # President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street Lesson 5 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/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/0/) — The USA has a president, chosen by voters in a separate election, who is both head of the country and head of the government; the UK has a prime minister, the leader of the party that wins most seats in Parliament, while the King is the head of state. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/2/) — Neither leader works alone: each picks a cabinet, a top team of ministers who run things like health, schools and money; a cabinet is a team, not a cupboard. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/3/) — Neither can do anything they like either: a US president is checked by Congress and the courts and can be elected only twice, and a UK prime minister must face noisy questions from MPs every Wednesday and can be replaced by their own party without a general election. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/4/) — The UK prime minister is also an ordinary MP for one local area and must win that seat at each election, like a head teacher who still teaches one class. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/5/) — A US president is elected by voters in a separate election and is head of the country and of the government. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/6/) — In the UK, the prime minister is the leader of the party that wins most seats in Parliament, and the King is head of state. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/7/) — 10 Downing Street in London, often called Number 10, is the prime minister's office and official home; new prime ministers usually give a speech outside its black door. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/9/) — The cabinet is the top team of ministers; a minister is in charge of one area, like health or education, and the leader chooses who is in it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/10/) — Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) happens every Wednesday when Parliament is sitting; MPs, including the leader of the opposition, question the prime minister in public. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/11/) — The opposition is the parties not in government; their job is to challenge it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/12/) — A US president can be elected only twice, for four years each time; this is a term limit; UK prime ministers have no fixed limit but must keep winning elections and keep their party's support. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/13/) — In the UK, if a prime minister resigns, their party can choose a new leader who becomes prime minister without a general election; this happened several times between 2016 and 2022. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/15/) — In the US, power is split between the president, Congress (which makes laws) and the courts; each can block the others in some ways, which is called checks and balances. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/16/) — After a UK general election, the winning party's leader goes to the King, who asks them to form a government; this is a tradition, and the King does not choose the winner. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/17/) — A UK prime minister is also an MP for one area, called a constituency; a US president does not represent any local area. - ← previous: [Parties: teams with ideas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/) - next →: [Congress and Parliament: how a law is made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/6-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)