diff --git a/spacy/tests/doc/test_array.py b/spacy/tests/doc/test_array.py
index c18fce966..8a8ff2296 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/doc/test_array.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/doc/test_array.py
@@ -1,46 +1,43 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
+from spacy.tokens import Doc
 from spacy.attrs import ORTH, SHAPE, POS, DEP
 
 from ..util import get_doc
 
 
-def test_doc_array_attr_of_token(en_tokenizer, en_vocab):
-    text = "An example sentence"
-    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
-    example = tokens.vocab["example"]
+def test_doc_array_attr_of_token(en_vocab):
+    doc = Doc(en_vocab, words=["An", "example", "sentence"])
+    example = doc.vocab["example"]
     assert example.orth != example.shape
-    feats_array = tokens.to_array((ORTH, SHAPE))
+    feats_array = doc.to_array((ORTH, SHAPE))
     assert feats_array[0][0] != feats_array[0][1]
     assert feats_array[0][0] != feats_array[0][1]
 
 
-def test_doc_stringy_array_attr_of_token(en_tokenizer, en_vocab):
-    text = "An example sentence"
-    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
-    example = tokens.vocab["example"]
+def test_doc_stringy_array_attr_of_token(en_vocab):
+    doc = Doc(en_vocab, words=["An", "example", "sentence"])
+    example = doc.vocab["example"]
     assert example.orth != example.shape
-    feats_array = tokens.to_array((ORTH, SHAPE))
-    feats_array_stringy = tokens.to_array(("ORTH", "SHAPE"))
+    feats_array = doc.to_array((ORTH, SHAPE))
+    feats_array_stringy = doc.to_array(("ORTH", "SHAPE"))
     assert feats_array_stringy[0][0] == feats_array[0][0]
     assert feats_array_stringy[0][1] == feats_array[0][1]
 
 
-def test_doc_scalar_attr_of_token(en_tokenizer, en_vocab):
-    text = "An example sentence"
-    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
-    example = tokens.vocab["example"]
+def test_doc_scalar_attr_of_token(en_vocab):
+    doc = Doc(en_vocab, words=["An", "example", "sentence"])
+    example = doc.vocab["example"]
     assert example.orth != example.shape
-    feats_array = tokens.to_array(ORTH)
+    feats_array = doc.to_array(ORTH)
     assert feats_array.shape == (3,)
 
 
-def test_doc_array_tag(en_tokenizer):
-    text = "A nice sentence."
+def test_doc_array_tag(en_vocab):
+    words = ["A", "nice", "sentence", "."]
     pos = ["DET", "ADJ", "NOUN", "PUNCT"]
-    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
-    doc = get_doc(tokens.vocab, words=[t.text for t in tokens], pos=pos)
+    doc = get_doc(en_vocab, words=words, pos=pos)
     assert doc[0].pos != doc[1].pos != doc[2].pos != doc[3].pos
     feats_array = doc.to_array((ORTH, POS))
     assert feats_array[0][1] == doc[0].pos
@@ -49,11 +46,10 @@ def test_doc_array_tag(en_tokenizer):
     assert feats_array[3][1] == doc[3].pos
 
 
-def test_doc_array_dep(en_tokenizer):
-    text = "A nice sentence."
+def test_doc_array_dep(en_vocab):
+    words = ["A", "nice", "sentence", "."]
     deps = ["det", "amod", "ROOT", "punct"]
-    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
-    doc = get_doc(tokens.vocab, words=[t.text for t in tokens], deps=deps)
+    doc = get_doc(en_vocab, words=words, deps=deps)
     feats_array = doc.to_array((ORTH, DEP))
     assert feats_array[0][1] == doc[0].dep
     assert feats_array[1][1] == doc[1].dep