This commentary article is to be published alongside: Hernik, M., & Southgate, V. (2012). Do 9-month-old infants construe the direct reach and grasp of a single object, sitting alone on a table, as a goal-directed action? Based on their current findings and a previous study, Hernik and Southgate (this issue) make the rather surprising suggestion that infants do not make this attribution. Here, the authors present a concern with this conclusion, specifically, that infants' goal-attribution in one-object events was never actually tested.