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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Question: Sentence: Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations , but Hino {{ showed }} a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller . 
Word: showed

Answer: VERB


Question: Sentence: Their territory lay to the north , near the sources of the Alabama , the Tombigbee , the Tennessee , {{ and }} Cumberland rivers , and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees . 
Word: and

Answer: CONJ


Question: Sentence: Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste {{ applied }} , there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon . 
Word: applied

Answer:
VERB