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.
Input: story: Mark and Joan could not wait for Santa to arrive. They laid out a plate of cookies and a glass of milk. They crept up the stairs to go to bed. The next morning, they ran down the stairs. They saw all their presents from Santa underneath the tree.
 selected sentence: They laid out a plate of cookies and a glass of milk.

Mark and Joan decide to lay out cookies >Causes/Enables> Mark and Joan lay out cookies