The article discusses the results of a pilot survey on basic verb vocabulary conducted through an online experiment in the form of language tasks employing associative stimuli, thematic stimuli, and contextual and textual stimuli. An analysisrevolves around observations on the performance of the tasks by two focus groupsof children – 7- to 10-year-olds and 11- to 14-year-olds. Semantic frame representations of the selected verbs are employed to explain the specifics of the respondents’competence in recognising the selected verb meanings and the arguments associated with a specific verb meaning.