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: It was midnight. And Erin needed to take out the trash. She stepped outside and headed towards the garbage bin. When she opened it, a cat jumped out. Erin decided to never take out the trash at night again.
selected sentence: Erin decided to never take out the trash at night again.

SOLUTION: A cat jumped from >Causes/Enables> Erin refuses to take the trash to the bin again

PROBLEM: story: Marcy asked her boyfriend to buy her a pizza online. She lived far away from him, and was hungry. She heard a knock on the door, and it was a large pepperoni pizza. Marcy called her boyfriend and thanked him. Her boyfriend said he never bought her a pizza.
selected sentence: She lived far away from him, and was hungry.

SOLUTION: Marcy doesn't eat food >Causes/Enables> Marcy is hungry

PROBLEM: story: Jim has an English test tomorrow. He is not ready at all. He decided to pull an allnighter. When he got to school, he fell asleep. Jim slept through his test and failed.
selected sentence: Jim slept through his test and failed.

SOLUTION:
Jim pulls an all-nighter >Causes/Enables> Jim sleeps through his test