diff --git a/spacy/tests/tagger/test_morph_exceptions.py b/spacy/tests/tagger/test_morph_exceptions.py
index 97ef58b0c..63b0a9c15 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/tagger/test_morph_exceptions.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/tagger/test_morph_exceptions.py
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ import pytest
 def test_tagger_load_morph_exc(en_tokenizer):
     text = "I like his style."
     tags = ['PRP', 'VBP', 'PRP$', 'NN', '.']
-    morph_exc = {'PRP$': {'his': {'L': '-PRP-', 'person': 3, 'case': 2}}}
+    morph_exc = {'VBP': {'like': {'L': 'luck'}}}
     en_tokenizer.vocab.morphology.load_morph_exceptions(morph_exc)
     tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
     doc = get_doc(tokens.vocab, [t.text for t in tokens], tags=tags)
-    assert doc[2].tag_ == 'PRP$'
-    assert doc[2].lemma_ == '-PRP-'
+    assert doc[1].tag_ == 'VBP'
+    assert doc[1].lemma_ == 'luck'