diff --git a/inform7/Tests/Test Cases/PhraseTokenSpecificAction.txt b/inform7/Tests/Test Cases/PhraseTokenSpecificAction.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9744625393
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inform7/Tests/Test Cases/PhraseTokenSpecificAction.txt	
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Foo is a room.
+To clomp (Z - looking): say "Clomp!".
+
+When play begins:
+	let Z be the action of looking;
+	clomp Z;
+	let Z be the action of examining the player;
+	clomp Z;
diff --git a/inform7/Tests/Test Cases/_Results_Ideal/PhraseTokenSpecificAction.txt b/inform7/Tests/Test Cases/_Results_Ideal/PhraseTokenSpecificAction.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..00de7d0aa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inform7/Tests/Test Cases/_Results_Ideal/PhraseTokenSpecificAction.txt	
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+   Foo
+  Clomp!
+  
+  *** Run-time problem P47 (at paragraph 8 in the source text): Phrase applied to an incompatible kind of value.
+  
+  
+  Welcome
+  An Interactive Fiction
+  Release 1 / Serial number 160428 / Inform 7 v10.1.0 / D
+  
+  Foo
+  
+> >   Foo
+> Are you sure you want to quit? 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/inform7/assertions-module/Chapter 5/Parsing Type Data.w b/inform7/assertions-module/Chapter 5/Parsing Type Data.w
index 6ec82060b9..4bbbbbc990 100644
--- a/inform7/assertions-module/Chapter 5/Parsing Type Data.w	
+++ b/inform7/assertions-module/Chapter 5/Parsing Type Data.w	
@@ -400,9 +400,10 @@ void ParsingIDTypeData::phtd_main_prototype(id_type_data *idtd) {
 	}
 
 @<Phrase tokens cannot be quantified@> =
-	if (Node::is(spec, TEST_VALUE_NT)) {
+	if (Specifications::is_description(spec)) {
 		pcalc_prop *prop = Descriptions::to_proposition(spec);
 		if (Binding::number_free(prop) != 1) {
+			LOG("Spec is: $T\nProposition is: $D\n", spec, prop);
 			Problems::quote_source(1, current_sentence);
 			Problems::quote_wording(2, Node::get_text(spec));
 			StandardProblems::handmade_problem(Task::syntax_tree(),
@@ -416,7 +417,7 @@ void ParsingIDTypeData::phtd_main_prototype(id_type_data *idtd) {
 			Problems::issue_problem_end();
 			return;
 		}
-	}
+	} else if (Node::is(spec, TEST_VALUE_NT)) spec = spec->down;
 
 @<Sort out the kind variables in this declaration@> =
 	int i, t = 0;
diff --git a/inform7/values-module/Chapter 2/Descriptions.w b/inform7/values-module/Chapter 2/Descriptions.w
index b4190a9347..388c6dc1d5 100644
--- a/inform7/values-module/Chapter 2/Descriptions.w	
+++ b/inform7/values-module/Chapter 2/Descriptions.w	
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ parse_node *Descriptions::from_proposition(pcalc_prop *prop, wording W) {
 }
 
 pcalc_prop *Descriptions::to_proposition(parse_node *spec) {
-	if (Specifications::is_description(spec)) spec = spec->down;
-	else {
-		LOG("Spec: $P\n", spec);
+	if ((Specifications::is_description(spec)) || (Node::is(spec, TEST_VALUE_NT))) {
+		spec = spec->down;
+	} else {
+		LOG("Spec: $T\n", spec);
 		internal_error("tried to extract proposition from non-description");
 	}
 	if (Rvalues::is_CONSTANT_construction(spec, CON_description))