The phrase "provokes a question" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when someone or something has said or done something that has caused you to ask a question. For example, "Her statement about politics provokes a question about her beliefs."
That provokes a question of quite how radical Labour intends to be.
Others just think it fun to pet something so fat, wet and endangered.For me, it provokes a question.
This staggering achievement provokes a question: Why are Korean women so good at golf?South Korea is a small, crowded country.
The razor-thin gap between the majority and minority parties in the Senate provokes a question: If there is a tie, what role would Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson, right, a Democrat, play?
It's a lively, brittle and memorable piece of work -- filmmakers pop in and out of a hotel room, sit in front of a camera and reveal their feelings on life and filmmaking -- a work that now provokes a question itself.
The inventive and extraordinarily satisfying feature-film debut of the writer and director Jocelyn Moorhouse is so good that it provokes a question: Whatever happened to her? Her career trajectory in the years that followed seems to prove that the American mainstream movie establishment has no place for a woman capable of such beguiling and spare work.
But when the team advanced to the state semifinals in its league, the accomplishment provoked a question of faith.
And there is always the chance that the sight of a historic monument will provoke a question from your supposedly supportive travel companion, a question that you should be able to -- but at that very moment can't -- answer.
The action proceeds from mild kink — a threesome, a spanking — toward more mystical activities, including hypnosis and levitation, and ends, as most of Mr. Brisseau's films do, by provoking a question: Is he serious?
The analyses presented in this section provoke a question that is difficult to answer: if there had been a generalised decline in student engagement, why was it not evident in similar degrees in all three domains?
Those calls provoked a question from Maias Yamani, a Syrian musician — and passionate soccer fan — living in Doha, the Qatari capital.
