Questão 39 · 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 sentence “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.” (second sentence of the third paragraph of text 7A2-II),
- A) “an”, in “an advocate”, is a numeral equivalent to one.
- B) “for” is a conjunction introducing the notion of purpose.
- C) “Here” is a preposition indicating the idea of place.
- D) “a” is a determiner which specifies “man”.
- E) “who” introduces a defining relative clause.
Marque a alternativa correta:
Gabarito: E
Gabarito definitivo divulgado pela banca Cebraspe (UNIVESP 2025).
Comentário
Gabarito: E.
Em “Here was a man who had for part of the previous decade been an insider...”, “who” é pronome relativo que retoma “a man” e introduz uma oração adjetiva restritiva (definidora): ela identifica de que homem se fala, e não vem separada por vírgula. Por isso a alternativa E está correta.
- A: “an” é o artigo indefinido (forma de “a” antes de som vocálico). Em “an advocate”, o substantivo apenas descreve o papel do homem (“an insider, an advocate”) e não contrapõe uma unidade a duas ou mais; por isso não funciona como numeral equivalente a one.
- B: “for”, em “for part of the previous decade”, introduz um período de tempo; é preposição de duração, e não conjunção de finalidade (não há oração depois dele, mas um grupo nominal).
- C: “Here” indica o lugar em que a cena é apresentada e é advérbio; preposição exigiria um complemento nominal, e “Here” não tem.
- D: “a” é artigo indefinido: apresenta “man” como alguém ainda não identificado. Quem restringe e identifica o homem é a oração relativa “who had... been an insider”, e não o artigo.
Dica: oração relativa sem vírgula restringe o substantivo (diz qual); com vírgulas, apenas acrescenta uma informação.
Fundamentos: Gramática inglesa: orações relativas restritivas (defining relative clauses) · Gramática inglesa: artigo indefinido a/an · Texto-base: “Here was a man who had for part of the previous decade…”
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 39, com o gabarito definitivo da banca. Comentário: Equipe Cravei · como fazemos e revisamos.