  This paper begins with the premise that adverbs are neglected in
computational linguistics. This view derives from two analyses: a literature
review and a novel adverb dataset to probe a state-of-the-art language model,
thereby uncovering systematic gaps in accounts for adverb meaning. We suggest
that using Frame Semantics for characterizing word meaning, as in FrameNet,
provides a promising approach to adverb analysis, given its ability to describe
ambiguity, semantic roles, and null instantiation.
