diff --git a/spacy/tests/parser/test_neural_parser.py b/spacy/tests/parser/test_neural_parser.py
index 42b55745f..30a6367c8 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/parser/test_neural_parser.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/parser/test_neural_parser.py
@@ -78,3 +78,16 @@ def test_predict_doc_beam(parser, tok2vec, model, doc):
     parser(doc, beam_width=32, beam_density=0.001)
     for word in doc:
         print(word.text, word.head, word.dep_)
+
+
+def test_update_doc_beam(parser, tok2vec, model, doc, gold):
+    parser.model = model
+    tokvecs, bp_tokvecs = tok2vec.begin_update([doc])
+    d_tokvecs = parser.update_beam(([doc], tokvecs), [gold])
+    assert d_tokvecs[0].shape == tokvecs[0].shape
+    def optimize(weights, gradient, key=None):
+        weights -= 0.001 * gradient
+    bp_tokvecs(d_tokvecs, sgd=optimize)
+    assert d_tokvecs[0].sum() == 0.
+
+