TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be given a short story. One sentence from the story is chosen. Consider the events that happen before that sentence, or are likely to have happened before it. Does any of them directly cause it, or simply make it possible? You should write your answer in the form " A >causes/enables> B". Try to use phrases and sentences from the story to compose your answer when possible.
PROBLEM: story: Bob was learning to cook. Sarah was teaching him to cook rice. He boiled the water and added the rice. Bob forgot to check the stove. Bob burned the rice.
selected sentence: Sarah was teaching him to cook rice.

SOLUTION: Sarah decides to teach >Causes/Enables> Sarah teaches

PROBLEM: story: Mary went to a store. Mom told her to buy four things. In the store she could not remember what the fourth thing was. She had to call her mom. She told her to buy butter.
selected sentence: Mom told her to buy four things.

SOLUTION: Mary went next to the store >Causes/Enables> Mary's mom requests four things

PROBLEM: story: Karen was going to return her library book. She looked all over for it. She could not find it anywhere. She thought she had lost it! Then she found it under her bed.
selected sentence: Karen was going to return her library book.

SOLUTION:
Karen borrows a library book >Causes/Enables> Karen wants to return the library book