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.

Q: Sentence: According to Parmesan 's {{ earlier }} studies , one extinction event , for instance , was triggered when a checkerspot population migrated north prematurely , relying on a warming temperature signal , then was caught in a severe snowstorm in its northern habitat . 
Word: earlier

A: JJR
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Q: Sentence: Who knows {{ how }} much they want me to pay to fix this thing . 
Word: how

A: WRB
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Q: Sentence: What are good {{ places }} to eat brunch at ? ? 
Word: places

A:
NNS
****