Focus dependencies, including question–answer congruence, free focus, and association with focus, are often treated in terms of grammatical and pragmatic mechanisms that rely on (a) focus-semantic values along a second semantic dimension, and (b) an anaphoric operator, ~, that is sensitive to these values and can communicate them to various processes. I argue against this view and in favor of a purely pragmatic treatment of focus in which there are no focus semantic values within the grammar, let alone operators sensitive to such values. Instead of ~, I propose a unification of focus dependencies through a pragmatic condition: an utterance is felicitous only if it is a good answer to a good (explicit or accommodated) question. Good answers must be relevant to the question they address, with relevance understood, following Lewis (1988), relative to a question-induced partition of the context set.