Questão 40 · 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 the first paragraph of text 7A2-II, the passage ‘amazing, large, expensive digital computers helped to produce poetic text and music’ (third sentence of the first paragraph) can be correctly rewritten, in terms of grammatical rules, as
- A) the production of poetic text and music were being done and helped by large, amazing, expensive digital computers
- B) digital computers I find amazing, large, expensive and digital were helping to produce text and music who were poetic
- C) digital computers were amazing, large and expensive helped to produce poetic text and music
- D) poetic text and music were being produced with the help of digital, expensive, large amazing computers
- E) poetic text and music were being produced with the help of amazing, large, expensive digital computers
Marque a alternativa correta:
Gabarito: E
Gabarito definitivo divulgado pela banca Cebraspe (UNIVESP 2025).
Comentário
Gabarito: E.
O original está na voz ativa: o sujeito “amazing, large, expensive digital computers” pratica a ação de “helped to produce poetic text and music”. A reescrita correta passa o trecho para a voz passiva mantendo a ordem dos adjetivos e a concordância. A alternativa E faz isso: “poetic text and music were being produced with the help of amazing, large, expensive digital computers”. O sujeito plural “text and music” concorda com “were”, e a ordem dos adjetivos se mantém. Por isso E está correta.
- A: o sujeito “the production” é singular e o verbo “were” é plural, o que gera erro de concordância. Além disso, “done and helped by” é construção desconexa: “production” não é o que recebe ajuda dos computadores, e o sentido original se perde.
- B: “who” só retoma pessoas, e “text and music” são coisas; o pronome adequado seria which ou that. A frase também introduz “I find”, que não existe no original.
- C: “were amazing, large and expensive helped to produce” junta dois predicados (“were amazing...” e “helped to produce...”) sem conjunção nem pronome relativo, o que é agramatical.
- D: coloca “digital” (adjetivo de tipo, que deve ficar mais perto do substantivo) no início e deixa “large” antes de “amazing”, invertendo a ordem usual opinião + tamanho, além de omitir a vírgula entre eles.
Dica: em reescritas, confira concordância verbal, pronomes relativos (who para pessoas) e a ordem dos adjetivos: opinião, tamanho, ..., tipo, substantivo.
Fundamentos: Gramática inglesa: voz passiva (be + past participle, passive progressive) · Gramática inglesa: ordem dos adjetivos · Texto-base: “amazing, large, expensive, digital computers helped to produce poetic text and music”
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