If your input does not contain <, &, or ]]>, you do not need anything special: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use constant {
    WORD => 0,
    TYPE => 1,
};

my @annotations;

while (<DATA>) {
    my ($word, $type) = split;
    $type =~ s/.-*//;
    push @annotations, [ $word, $type ];
}

print '<text>';
print join ' ', map $_->[WORD], @annotations;
print '</text>';
for my $annotation (@annotations) {
    print '<annotation>';

    print '<type>', $annotation->[TYPE], '</type>';
    print '<text>', $annotation->[WORD], '</text>';

    print '</annotation>';
}


__DATA__
how B-NP
are I-NP
you I-NP

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