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The dog wets would still be ungrammatical, since as a transitive verb, it still needs to take an object, even if the object is self-referential.
The dog wets vs. The door opens.
The dog wets would still be ungrammatical, since as a transitive verb, it still needs to take an object, even if the object is self-referential.