After being trampled by platform shoes at an Iggy concert,Buffy awakes in the hospital and says to a nurse,"Watches playfully wrote pumpkins in the sky." This doesn't make sense because Buffy's speech violates the rules of ____.
A) syntax
B) phonemes
C) morphemes
D) semantics

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Buffy's speech violates the rules of semantics because the sentence structure (syntax) is correct, but the meaning (semantics) of the words put together does not make logical sense.

After Being Trampled by Platform Shoes at an Iggy Concert,Buffy