diff --git a/spacy/tests/parser/test_beam_parse.py b/spacy/tests/parser/test_beam_parse.py
index dd77c6805..59e307bcb 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/parser/test_beam_parse.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/parser/test_beam_parse.py
@@ -2,10 +2,22 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import pytest
+from ...language import Language
+from ...pipeline import DependencyParser
 
 
 @pytest.mark.models('en')
-def test_beam_parse(EN):
+def test_beam_parse_en(EN):
     doc = EN(u'Australia is a country', disable=['ner'])
     ents = EN.entity(doc, beam_width=2)
     print(ents)
+
+
+def test_beam_parse():
+    nlp = Language()
+    nlp.add_pipe(DependencyParser(nlp.vocab), name='parser')
+    nlp.parser.add_label('nsubj')
+    nlp.begin_training()
+
+    doc = nlp.make_doc(u'Australia is a country')
+    nlp.parser(doc, beam_width=2)