The term underlying is used to describe sentences, phrases, or words that correspond to their causative versions. Often, this underlying sentence may not be explicitly stated. For example, for the sentence "'John made Bill drive the truck'", the underlying sentence would be Bill drove the truck. This has also been called the base situation.

A derived sentence would be the causativized variant of the underlying sentence.

The causer is the new argument in a causative expression that causes the action

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