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: I waited for the afternoon school bus to take me home. When the bus arrived at my stop, outside was raining. Knowing this, the bus driver still wanted me to get out. After walking out, I became soaked from the rain. I decided to wait in a store for the rain to clear up.
selected sentence: When the bus arrived at my stop, outside was raining.

SOLUTION: I was riding a bus home >Causes/Enables> The bus arrived at my home and it was raining out

PROBLEM: story: Sally's mother woke her up for school. Sally told her that she did not feel very well. Her mother checked her temperature. Her temperature showed she had a fever. So her mother took her to the doctor for medicine.
selected sentence: Her temperature showed she had a fever.

SOLUTION: Sally's mother takes her temperature >Causes/Enables> Sally's mother sees she has a fever

PROBLEM: story: Megan was eating pancakes in bed. When she was done she set her plate on the ground. Later when she got up, her blanket fell to the ground. When she found it it was covered in sticky syrup from the plate. She had to wash everything to get the syrup out.
selected sentence: When she found it it was covered in sticky syrup from the plate.

SOLUTION:
Megan drops her blanket on her plate >Causes/Enables> Megan's blanket is sticky