أَيْنَ بَيْتُكَ أَزُرْكَ؟
Where is your house? I will come to visit you.
The interrogative asks for the location of the house, but azurka (“I shall visit you”) reveals why the information is requested. The underlying relation is “if you tell me where it is, I shall visit you.”
The consequence depends not on the mere act of asking but on obtaining the information sought. This is a central condition for interpreting an apparent question–answer sequence as a dependent construction.
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Prohibition: Refraining, Rhetorical Functions and Responses to Requests
أَيْنَ بَيْتُكَ أَزُرْكَ؟
Where is your house? I will come to visit you.
The interrogative asks for the location of the house, but azurka (“I shall visit you”) reveals why the information is requested. The underlying relation is “if you tell me where it is, I shall visit you.”
The consequence depends not on the mere act of asking but on obtaining the information sought. This is a central condition for interpreting an apparent question–answer sequence as a dependent construction.