Sir Bubba: You have discovered the exact parallel to the basic Mandarin matrix.
Sugar in it? Sugar in it. Depending on your tonal inflection, you both ask and answer.
In Mandarin, the folks over there are fond of "Ma" <-- About a fifth of the fargin population are named "Ma". But they also use "ma" for, of all things: mother, and oops, horse, or the act of swearing, or to make the previous words a question.
So you could cobble together a sentence using tonals asking:
"Does your mother swear at a horse?"
Ni ma ma ma ma?