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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def detect_missing_verb(sentence):
 """Return True if the sentence appears to be missing a main verb"""

    # TODO: should this be relocated?
    doc = nlp(sentence)
    for w in doc:
        if w.tag_.startswith('VB') and w.dep_ == 'ROOT':
            return False # looks like there is at least 1 main verb
    return True