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+'''Test that the parser respects preset sentence boundaries.'''
+import pytest
+from thinc.neural.optimizers import Adam
+from thinc.neural.ops import NumpyOps
+
+from ...attrs import NORM
+from ...gold import GoldParse
+from ...vocab import Vocab
+from ...tokens import Doc
+from ...pipeline import NeuralDependencyParser
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def vocab():
+    return Vocab(lex_attr_getters={NORM: lambda s: s})
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def parser(vocab):
+    parser = NeuralDependencyParser(vocab)
+    parser.cfg['token_vector_width'] = 4
+    parser.cfg['hidden_width'] = 32
+    #parser.add_label('right')
+    parser.add_label('left')
+    parser.begin_training([], **parser.cfg)
+    sgd = Adam(NumpyOps(), 0.001)
+
+    for i in range(10):
+        losses = {}
+        doc = Doc(vocab, words=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
+        gold = GoldParse(doc, heads=[1, 1, 3, 3],
+                deps=['left', 'ROOT', 'left', 'ROOT'])
+        parser.update([doc], [gold], sgd=sgd, losses=losses)
+    return parser
+
+def test_no_sentences(parser):
+    doc = Doc(parser.vocab, words=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
+    doc = parser(doc)
+    assert len(list(doc.sents)) == 2
+
+
+def test_sents_1(parser):
+    doc = Doc(parser.vocab, words=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
+    doc[2].sent_start = True
+    doc = parser(doc)
+    assert len(list(doc.sents)) == 3
+    doc = Doc(parser.vocab, words=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
+    doc[1].sent_start = False
+    doc[2].sent_start = True
+    doc[3].sent_start = False
+    doc = parser(doc)
+    assert len(list(doc.sents)) == 2
+
+
+def test_sents_1_2(parser):
+    doc = Doc(parser.vocab, words=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
+    doc[1].sent_start = True
+    doc[2].sent_start = True
+    doc = parser(doc)
+    assert len(list(doc.sents)) == 3
+
+
+def test_sents_1_3(parser):
+    doc = Doc(parser.vocab, words=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
+    doc[1].sent_start = True
+    doc[3].sent_start = True
+    doc = parser(doc)
+    assert len(list(doc.sents)) == 4
+    doc = Doc(parser.vocab, words=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
+    doc[1].sent_start = True
+    doc[2].sent_start = False
+    doc[3].sent_start = True
+    doc = parser(doc)
+    assert len(list(doc.sents)) == 3