Five Question Types for Locking a Conversational Frame

Chase Hughes's taxonomy of the five question types that lock a listener inside a frame just set by one of the Five Statement Types for Setting a Conversational Frame (see Statement-Sets-Frame, Question-Locks-It-In Architecture):

Directional — points toward a conclusion without stating it, giving the question "built-in gravity" toward an outcome so the listener arrives at and personally owns the answer.
Assumptive — skips the still-open decision and asks about what happens after, treating the decision as already made (e.g. asking about rollout timing instead of asking whether to proceed).
Elicitation — extracts information or data without the other person feeling like they're giving it up; functions like shared, casual thinking-out-loud rather than interrogation.
Reframe — silently swaps the interpretive lens the room is using without announcing the swap, rather than arguing against the old frame directly.
Diagnostic — puts the asker in an evaluating role and the other person in an explaining role (often softened by "I'm just curious"), even against someone with formal authority. "The person showing their work is never ever the one holding the frame."

Each pairs with one of the five statement types — 25 combinations total. Related: Peeling the Onion (Why-Question Sequencing) (a different question-sequencing technique).