This inquiry examines why children are inclined to assign a broader set of interpretations to sentences with distributive universal quantifiers each and every than adults. Musolino (2009) suggested that children are more indulgent than adults because they are inclined to assign quantifier spreading interpretations to universally quantified sentences. The results back the alternative hypothesis that children are more indulgent because they are inclined to assign cumulative interpretations to universally quantified sentences in a broader set of contexts than adults. The results disclose that both children and adults assign cumulative interpretations to sentences with universally quantified objects (Three cowboys are pulling every horse), but children also tend to assign cumulative interpretations to sentences with universally quantified subjects (Every cowboy is pulling two horses). It is displayed that children perform similarly with sentences with universally quantified NPs and sentences with numerical NPs (Three cowboys are pulling two horses). It is asserted that children are more indulgent than adults because they are less likely than adults to discern singular subject-verb agreement as a cue to distributive interpretation. A formal semantic model is presented to clarify the findings and debate the implications of the model for recent acquisition inquiry.