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.

Sentence: These booze customers had until then been buying their supplies from the Sheldon , Saltis-McErlane , and Druggan-Lake gangs , and now they {{ were }} competing for trade with the Torrio-Capone saloons ; ; 
Word: were
VERB

Sentence: At least they hadn't stepped {{ up }} and asked to see papers in the hated , flat , dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home district -- Dogumenti , per favore . 
Word: up
PRT

Sentence: The diffusion is most pronounced and most likely to become fixed , however , in those who have had no or very minimal opportunities to develop the autonomy and initiative that could have been directed into constructive expression and so served as sources of developing self-certainty {{ . }} 
Word: .

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