diff --git a/spacy/tests/test_cli.py b/spacy/tests/test_cli.py
index b0d173fdf..ed16ea37b 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -865,17 +865,17 @@ def test_cli_find_threshold(capsys):
 
         for t in [
             (
-                "I'm angry and confused in the Bank of America.",
+                "I am angry and confused in the Bank of America.",
                 {
                     "cats": {"ANGRY": 1.0, "CONFUSED": 1.0, "HAPPY": 0.0},
-                    "spans": {"sc": [(7, 10, "ORG")]},
+                    "spans": {"sc": [(31, 46, "ORG")]},
                 },
             ),
             (
-                "I'm confused but happy in New York.",
+                "I am confused but happy in New York.",
                 {
                     "cats": {"ANGRY": 0.0, "CONFUSED": 1.0, "HAPPY": 1.0},
-                    "spans": {"sc": [(6, 7, "GPE")]},
+                    "spans": {"sc": [(27, 35, "GPE")]},
                 },
             ),
         ]:
@@ -903,12 +903,9 @@ def test_cli_find_threshold(capsys):
             if isinstance(comp, TextCategorizer):
                 for label in textcat_labels:
                     comp.add_label(label)
-            if isinstance(comp, SpanCategorizer):
-                comp.add_label("GPE")
-                comp.add_label("ORG")
 
-        _nlp.initialize()
         _examples = make_examples(_nlp)
+        _nlp.initialize(get_examples=lambda: _examples)
         for i in range(5):
             _nlp.update(_examples)
 
@@ -936,9 +933,8 @@ def test_cli_find_threshold(capsys):
                 == numpy.linspace(0, 1, 10)[1]
             )
 
-        # todo fix spancat test
         # Specifying name of non-MultiLabel_TextCategorizer component should fail.
-        nlp, _ = init_nlp((("spancat", {"spans_key": "sc", "threshold": 0.5}),))
+        nlp, _ = init_nlp((("spancat", {}),))
         with make_tempdir() as nlp_dir:
             nlp.to_disk(nlp_dir)
             assert (