“…From a semantic standpoint, climb is classified as a manner-of-motion verb, and it is sometimes referred to as a neutral or ordinary verb, such as walk and fly, as opposed to more expressive verbs like dash, swoop, or scramble (Cadierno -Ruiz 2006). 6 Climb implies self-propelled, agentive, voluntary, self-caused, or internally caused motion and can be augmented by a number of locative adverbs and prepositions that give the verb a directional component (Filipović 2007;Goddard 2020;Kudrnáčová 2013;Stolova 2011). Berman and Slobin (1994) discovered that three-to four-year-old English-speaking toddlers connected climb with down, on, out, over, up, up in, and up on in Mayer's (1969) Frog, where are you?…”