--- title: Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand all borrowed ideas from the British way of running --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/) [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/) / Around the English-speaking world: Can… # Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand Lesson 9 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/0/) — Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand all borrowed ideas from the British way of running a country, then made them their own, like a family recipe each cook changes a little. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/1/) — Canada's Parliament in Ottawa looks a bit like London's, with a House of Commons and an appointed Senate, but MPs speak English or French and interpreters turn one into the other as they talk. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/2/) — In Australia adults must vote or risk a small fine, they number the candidates 1, 2, 3 in order of who they like, and many polling places sell a "democracy sausage" in bread outside. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/3/) — Ireland has no king: its President lives in a big white house in a Dublin park and mostly does ceremonies, while the Taoiseach (said TEE-shuck) runs the government and answers to the Dáil (said DOYL); Irish counts can take days because votes move from one choice to the next. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/5/) — Canadians vote for MPs in the House of Commons in Ottawa, and the leader of the biggest party usually becomes prime minister; Canada's Senate is appointed, not elected. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/6/) — Canada has two official languages, English and French; MPs may speak either, interpreters translate as they speak, and laws are written in both. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/7/) — In Australia, voting in national elections is compulsory for adult citizens, so almost everyone takes part; in the USA, voting is a free choice. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/8/) — At many Australian polling places, schools and clubs sell sausages in bread to raise money; people call it the democracy sausage. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/9/) — In Australia, voters number the candidates in order of preference; if nobody has more than half, the last candidate is knocked out and their votes go to next choices, until someone has more than half. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/10/) — The Taoiseach is Ireland's head of government, like a prime minister, and the Dáil is the main elected house of Ireland's Parliament; the words come from Irish, one of Ireland's official languages. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/11/) — Ireland is a republic: its elected President is head of state, mostly for ceremonies, and lives at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/12/) — Ireland uses the single transferable vote: voters rank candidates, each area elects several people, and votes are counted round by round, which can take days. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/13/) — Tallymen are party helpers who watch the Irish count and keep their own tally to guess the result early. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/14/) — New Zealand uses MMP (mixed-member proportional): each voter has an electorate vote for a local MP and a party vote, which decides each party's share of seats. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/15/) — New Zealand's Māori electorates, set up in 1867, are seats for voters on the Māori roll; the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 is a founding agreement between Māori chiefs and the British Crown. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/16/) — New Zealand and Australia hold national elections at least every three years, the USA elects a president every four years, and the UK holds a general election at least every five years. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/17/) — People argue about these systems: some say ranking and MMP are fairer, others say they are slower, more complicated, or give small parties too much power. - ← previous: [Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/8-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools/) - next →: [The news: who makes it and how](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)