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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 coarse 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 - 
 '.': Period symbol is used for symbols denoting Punctuations/Separations such as comma, period, backticks etc., 
 'ADJ': Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes, 
 'ADP': Adposition is a cover term for prepositions and postpositions, 
 'ADV': Adverbs are words that typically modify verbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner, 
 'CONJ': A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause, 
 'DET': Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context, 
 'NOUN': Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea, 
 'NUM': A numeral is a word, functioning most typically as a determiner, adjective or pronoun, that expresses a number and a relation to the number, such as quantity, sequence, frequency or fraction, 
 'PRT': Particles are function words that must be associated with another word or phrase to impart meaning and that do not satisfy definitions of other universal parts of speech, 
 'PRON': Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases, whose meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context, 
 'PROPN': A proper noun is a noun (or nominal content word) that is the name (or part of the name) of a specific individual, place, or object, 
 'VERB': A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that typically signal events and actions, can constitute a minimal predicate in a clause, and govern the number and types of other constituents which may occur in the clause, 
 'X': The tag X is used for words that for some reason cannot be assigned a real part-of-speech category.
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Sentence: He slapped {{ the }} reins on the back of the powerful gray horse and held on as the sulky's wheels hit a pothole and came out with a jolt and went on . 
Word: the
answer:
DET


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Sentence: Moreover , it is likely that Federal policies aimed at stimulating a faster rate of economic growth of the country , to keep ahead of the Communist countries and to demonstrate that our free economic system is better than theirs , will lead to rising Federal spending in certain areas such as education , housing , medical aid , and {{ the }} like . 
Word: the
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DET


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Sentence: In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman , and in 1957 , after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 , his fellow Democrats did {{ not }} touch his committee assignments , although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage . 
Word: not
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ADV