Question making small couch in pine (7)
I believe the answer is:
dispute
'question' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'small couch in pine' is the wordplay.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'couch' becomes 'put' (synonyms).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pine' becomes 'die' (dying is a kind of pining).
's'+'put'='sput'
'sput' going inside 'die' is 'DISPUTE'.
'making' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for dispute that I've seen before include "conflict" , "Altercate" , "Row" , "Altercation" , "Disagree or challenge" .)