Questão 38 · Língua Inglesa: Gramática
Texto associado à questão
Text 7A2-II
In October 1971, a gentleman called Frieder Nake published a note entitled, There Should Be No Computer Art, which I quote here. “Soon after the advent of computers, it became clear that there was a great potential application for them in the area of artistic creation”, he began. “Before 1960, amazing, large, expensive, digital computers helped to produce poetic text and music. Analog computers, or only oscilloscopes, generated drawings of sets of mathematical curves and representations of oscillations. It was not before the first exhibitions of computer produced pictures were held in 1965 that a greater public took notice of this threat, as some said, progress, as some thought. I was involved in this development from its beginning.
I think that the way the art scene reacted to the new creations is interesting, pleasing, and stupid. I stated in 1970 that I was no longer going to take part in exhibitions. I find it easy to admit that computer art did not contribute to the advancement of art if we compare the computer products to all existing works of art. In other words, the repertoire of results of aesthetic behavior has not been changed by the use of computers. This point of view, namely, that of art history, is shared and held against computer art by many art critics. There is no doubt in my mind”, Frieder Nake said, “that interesting new methods have been found in the last decade which can be of some significance for the creative artist”.
As you might imagine, this was a bit of a controversial take. Here was a man who had for part of the previous decade been an insider, an advocate for the use of algorithmic and generative processes to create art. However, he was now seeing things from another perspective. I’ll just finish with another piece from what he posted in that article: “Questions like ‘is a computer creative’, or ‘is a computer an artist’, or the like, should not be considered serious questions, period. In the light of what we are facing at the end of the 20th century, those irrelevant questions do not matter”.
Where is the Art? A History in Technology.
Internet: <https://www.infoq.com> (adapted).
In text 7A2-II, the fragment ‘I think that the way the art scene reacted to the new creations is interesting, pleasing, and stupid’
(first sentence of the second paragraph)
- A) is a complex sentence with a clause functioning as a direct object.
- B) is an example of the use of simple clauses.
- C) contains a clause functioning as an indirect object.
- D) is an example of a sentence beginning with a defining clause.
- E) has a relative clause beginning with ‘that’.
Marque a alternativa correta:
Gabarito: A
Gabarito definitivo divulgado pela banca Cebraspe (UNIVESP 2025).
Comentário
Gabarito: A.
O fragmento “I think that the way the art scene reacted to the new creations is interesting, pleasing, and stupid” é um período composto por subordinação. A oração principal é “I think”, e “that the way the art scene reacted... is interesting, pleasing, and stupid” é oração substantiva que responde “o que penso?”, ou seja, funciona como objeto direto de “think”. Por isso a alternativa A está correta.
- B: o período não é feito de orações simples: ao lado de “I think”, há a oração substantiva introduzida por that e, dentro dela, “the art scene reacted...”.
- C: objeto indireto indica o destinatário ou beneficiário da ação, e nenhuma oração do trecho tem esse papel. A oração com that completa “think” diretamente, como objeto direto.
- D: o período começa por “I think”, a oração principal, e não por oração definidora (relativa restritiva), que precisaria acompanhar um substantivo.
- E: o that que aparece abre a oração objeto de “think”; ele não retoma nenhum substantivo anterior (não poderia ser trocado por which), então não inicia oração relativa.
Dica: em I think that..., o that introduz a oração que completa o verbo; o relativo, por sua vez, retoma um substantivo anterior.
Fundamentos: Gramática inglesa: orações subordinadas substantivas (direct object noun clause) · Gramática inglesa: that como conjunção integrante versus pronome relativo · Texto-base: “I think that the way the art scene reacted…”
Comentário gerado pela Cravei IA a partir do enunciado e do gabarito definitivo divulgado pela banca, e conferido por uma verificação automática. A IA pode errar: o gabarito oficial sempre prevalece.
Fonte: prova Cebraspe UNIVESP 2025 (Diversos cargos), questão 38, com o gabarito definitivo da banca. Comentário: Equipe Cravei · como fazemos e revisamos.