Definition: In this task, you need to provide the parts-of-speech tag of a word present in a sentence specified within curly braces  ( '{{ ... }}' ). The parts-of-speech tags are fine labels that represent a category of words with similar grammatical properties. The list of part-of-speech tags i.e tagset of this corpus is : '$': Dollar Sign, "''": Single Quotes, ',': Comma Symbol, '-LRB-': Left Parantheses, '-RRB-': Right Parantheses, '.': Period, ':': Colon, 'ADD': Email Address, 'AFX': Affix, 'CC': Coordinating conjunction, 'CD': Cardinal Number, 'DT': Determiner, 'EX': Existential there, 'FW': Foreign Word, 'GW': Go with, 'HYPH': Hyphen symbol, 'IN': Preposition or a subordinating conjunction, 'JJ': Adjective, 'JJR': A comparative Adjective, 'JJS': A Superlative Adjective, 'LS': List item Marker, 'MD': Modal, 'NFP': Superfluous punctuation, 'NN': Singular Noun, 'NNP': Singular Proper Noun, 'NNPS': Prural Proper Noun, 'NNS': Prural Noun, 'PDT': Pre-determiner, 'POS': Possessive Ending, 'PRP': Personal pronoun, 'PRP$': Possessive Pronoun, 'RB': Adverb, 'RBR': Comparative Adverb, 'RBS': Superlative Adverb, 'RP': Particle, 'SYM': Symbol, 'TO': To , 'UH': Interjection, 'VB': Base form Verb, 'VBD': Verb in Past tense, 'VBG': Verb in present participle, 'VBN': Verb in past participle, 'VBP': Verb in non-3rd person singular present, 'VBZ': Verb in 3rd person singular present, 'WDT': Wh-determiner, 'WP': Wh-pronoun, 'WP$' Possessive Wh-pronoun, 'WRB': Wh-adverb, 'XX': Unknown, '``': Double backticks.

Positive Example 1 -
Input: Sentence: Those things ended up being a windsheild washer fluid tank {{ ( }} 1 screw ) and the air filter canister ( 4 spring clips ) . 
Word: (
Output: -LRB-

Positive Example 2 -
Input: Sentence: I melt brass and cast it {{ http://www.mikegigi.com/castgobl.htm }} 
Word: http://www.mikegigi.com/castgobl.htm
Output: ADD

Negative Example 1 -
Input: Sentence: It s between sea {{ and }} mountains so you can camp on beach or between mountains ! 
Word: and
Output: VB

Now complete the following example -
Input: Sentence: I 've spoken to vendors who are used by them who had nothing good to say about the company as well and in fact {{ were }} afraid to quote events against them even though they openly admitted that they felt Canadian Outback was pricing their entertainment out of the market and doing more to hurt their business than help them . 
Word: were
Output: 


Answer: VBD