Questão 5 - UFMS PASSE - 2 Etapa 2023-2025

Observe a imagem a seguir de um artista anônimo; a cantiga infantil (nursery rhyme) também de autoria anônima, e coletado em As únicas melodias verdadeiras da Mamãe Gansa (século XIX); e o trecho do poema “Woman in a shoe” da poetisa estadunidense Marge Piercy, parte da sua obra The art of blessing the day, de 1999, e responda a pergunta.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread; Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

 

    Woman in a shoe

 

 There was an old woman who lived
 in a shoe, her own two shoes,
 men’s they were,  brown and worn.
 They    flapped    when    she    hobbled    along.

 

There was an old woman who lived
 in a refrigerator box, under
 the expressway, with her cat.
 January, they died curled together.

 

(…) 
Too hot, too cold, too poor,
 too old. Invisible unless
 she annoys you, invisible
 unless she gets in your way.
 In fairy tales if you are kind
 to an old woman, she gives you
 the thing you desperately need:
 an unconquerable sword, a purse

bottomless    and    always    filled,
 a magical ring. We don’t believe
 that anymore. (...)

(PIERCY, Marge. Figura e Fragmento do Poema “Woman in a shoe”. Disponíveis em: https://mothergoosesmiles. wordpress.com/2011/11/19/the-woman-in-a-shoe/ e  https://allpoetry.com/poem/15333727-Woman-in-a-shoe--by-Marge-Piercy. Acesso em 20. out. 2024)

Levando em consideração o trecho do poema “In fairy tales if you are kind to an old woman, she gives you the thing you desperately need”, temos uma situação em que a condição e a consequência são bem prováveis de acontecer (ainda que em um contexto imaginado do conto de fada). Se a gente quisesse tornar a condição mais improvável ou hipotética, qual seria a forma correta de transformar o conditional em inglês?