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: The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the {{ reports }} that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane , who lives in Queens , to replace Abe Stark , the incumbent , as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame , who lives in Brooklyn , to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller . 
Word: reports

Answer: NOUN


Question: Sentence: Perhaps it is {{ only }} an analogy , but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation . 
Word: only

Answer: ADV


Question: Sentence: And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice , the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain , so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they {{ had }} heard you listened . 
Word: had

Answer:
VERB