CAUSE YAML source
code: CAUSE
xiao_number: B34
mfte_code: CAUSE
name: Causative/facilitation verbs
definition: >-
Verbs expressing causation or facilitation: help, let, allow, force, make (causative),
enable, etc.
normalization: finite_verbs
detection:
- source: mfte
requires:
- word
- pos
cql: '[word={words} & pos="VB.*"]'
words:
- affect
- affected
- affecting
- affects
- allow
- allowed
- allowing
- allows
- assist
- assisted
- assisting
- assists
- cause
- caused
- causes
- causing
- enable
- enabled
- enables
- enabling
- ensure
- ensured
- ensures
- ensuring
- force
- forced
- forces
- forcing
- guarantee
- guaranteed
- guaranteeing
- guarantees
- help
- helped
- helping
- helps
- influence
- influenced
- influences
- influencing
- let
- lets
- letting
- permit
- permits
- permitted
- permitting
- prevent
- prevented
- preventing
- prevents
- require
- required
- requires
- requiring
examples:
- text: He _helped_ her escape.
source: le_foll_2024
- text: I pleaded with her to _let_ me go.
source: le_foll_2024
sources:
- mfte
- xiao_2009