diff --git a/spacy/tests/spans/test_merge.py b/spacy/tests/spans/test_merge.py
index ddcf81fdd..ea0b573f2 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/spans/test_merge.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/spans/test_merge.py
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ def test_issue_54(EN):
     text = u'Talks given by women had a slightly higher number of questions asked (3.2$\pm$0.2) than talks given by men (2.6$\pm$0.1).'
     tokens = EN(text)
 
+
+@pytest.mark.models
 def test_np_merges(EN):
     text = u'displaCy is a parse tool built with Javascript'
     tokens = EN(text)
@@ -57,6 +59,7 @@ def test_entity_merge(EN):
     # check looping is ok
     assert(len(tokens) == 15)
 
+
 @pytest.mark.models
 def test_sentence_update_after_merge(EN):
     tokens = EN(u'Stewart Lee is a stand up comedian. He lives in England and loves Joe Pasquale.')
@@ -70,6 +73,7 @@ def test_sentence_update_after_merge(EN):
     assert(len(sent1) == init_len - 1)
     assert(len(sent2) == init_len2 - 1)
 
+
 @pytest.mark.models
 def test_subtree_size_check(EN):
     tokens = EN(u'Stewart Lee is a stand up comedian who lives in England and loves Joe Pasquale')