Portuguese Assessment: Syntactic Analysis

Assessment of Portuguese for senior high school students regarding syntax. Specifically, the assessment addresses phrase, clause, period, subject types and brief basic notions of morphology. In the attached material, there is a grid for students to mark the correct answer to each of the ten questions. From 1 to 7, we have questions extracted from the text; the others are independent. Take a look at this review! Worth it! Good job, teacher! 😉 😉 😉 

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the intelligence pill

There are already medications capable of boosting the brain ─ for you to think, study and work more and better. But how safe is it to take them? “I had to prepare for a job and decided to take a pill. The result was incredible. I was able to study 12 hours non-stop.”

“It was a busy time in my life. I was studying law, working in an office and still studying for civil service exams. I started using a medicine that the neurologist had prescribed for my aunt. I didn't have any side effects and felt a nice increase in my concentration. At exam time, I increased the dose.”
“I got smarter, everything I study is better used. Thanks to the medicine, I passed the chemistry entrance exam and became one of the best students in the class. Now I decided to take the entrance exam for economics. I got a scholarship in a prep course after getting 1st and 2nd place in several simulations. I am aware that other students also use the medicine. But I hope he doesn't get popular. After all, if everyone takes it, how am I going to stand out?" These reports are real. They are normal people with no brain problems. However, they decided to take drugs, developed to treat neurological disorders - but that, in people healthy, can cause a kind of mental turbo: intensify attention, concentration, memory or certain types of reasoning. Or simply help you think more, longer, without getting tired. And who doesn't want that anyway? A study just published in the scientific journal Nature reveals that 25% of college students take or have taken some kind of medicine to try to increase their cognitive performance. And a new generation of supposedly safer drugs has once and for all sparked interest in intelligence pills — which more and more doctors, executives and even scientists are taking. So much so that a group of neurologists from the Universities of California, Pennsylvania, Cambridge and Harvard have written an explosive manifesto that is dividing the scientific community. He advocates that certain medications, which today are black-label (of controlled sale and use), should be fully released – so that everyone can take them and increase their own IQ. “Human ingenuity has given us ways to improve our brains, with inventions like writing, the press and the internet. These drugs should be seen in the same way: they are things that our species invented to improve itself”, say the scientists. Craziness?
Perhaps. But the truth is that most people already consume substances to turbo their heads. When you have a cup of coffee to stay more connected, you are ingesting caffeine – and, with that, causing changes in the brain itself. If you wake up sick and take an anti-flu to work better, ditto (many drugs of the type contain a stimulant, phenylephrine). And all this is fully accepted by society. It may be that, in the future, intelligence pills will be considered as commonplace and harmless as a cup of coffee. (…)

(Adapted from ( http://super.abril.com.br/ciencia/a-pilula-da-inteligencia/)

ANSWER QUESTIONS 1 TO 7 FROM READING THE TEXT:

1. Regarding the title, we can say that
a) has a preposition and is a nominal phrase.
b) has a verb and is a verb phrase.
c) has no preposition and is a prayer.
d) it is a simple period.
e) it is a compound period.

2. The second paragraph of the text has
a) 6 prayers
b) 7 prayers
c) 8 prayers
d) 9 prayers
e) 10 prayers

3. The first word that starts the text is a
a) noun
b) adjective
c) numeral
d) verb
e) adverb

4. The last word that ends the text is a
a) noun
b) adjective
c) numeral
d) verb
e) adverb

5. In the sentence, "But how safe is it to take them?", the first and last words are respectively:
a) conjunction and definite article
b) adjective and verb
c) verb and noun
d) interjection and pronoun
e) conjunction and pronoun

6. The word "medicines" that is in the first sentence of the text has the syntactic function of
a) simple subject
b) hidden subject
c) indeterminate subject
d) direct object
e) indirect object

7. The verbs “I stayed”, “I passed” and “I turned” that start the third paragraph
a) do not have the same type of subject
b) have the same type of subject
c) have different types of subjects
d) have no subject
e) have three composite subjects

8. Review the statements:
I – Did it thunder a lot that night?
II – It was dawn in the city of Canela.
III – Geara in that region.
IV – An idea came to mind.
Of all the alternatives above, we can say
a) that they are all subjectless prayers.
b) that all verbs indicate a phenomenon of nature.
c) that only I, II and III are clauses without a subject.
d) that only IV indicates a phenomenon of nature.
e) that I and IV have a simple subject.

9. Read the following sentence: “People are often not focused on their goals. They do their projects relying more on luck.” The verb to do, in the context in which it is used,
a) has no subject.
b) has a compound subject “the people”.
c) has a hidden subject “they”.
d) has a simple subject inferred by the context.
e) is a verb that indicates weather or climate.

10. "There were denunciations against the politicians."
a) the phrase brings the verb “to rain” which indicates a phenomenon of nature.
b) “the politicians” is a direct object.
c) “the politicians” is the subject of the prayer.
d) The verb “to rain” is not in the sense that it indicates a phenomenon of nature.
e) it is a clause without a subject according to the phenomenon meaning of the verb “to rain”.

By André Tarragô Martins – Middle and Middle School Teacher of Portuguese Language and Master in Letters in the area of Language, Interaction and Learning Processes. In addition, he is a musician and journalist. He works in pre-university entrance exams, pre-contests, private lessons, preparation of competition tests and is content creator for the Portal www.acessaber.com.br.

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