Task: Pos Tagging
Input (English): Sentence: Thus , when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely {{ recognized }} as the greatest , wildest , roaringest college weekend anywhere , any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup , Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb , topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl . 
Word: recognized
Output (English): VERB