diff --git a/spacy/syntax/compile_time.pxi b/spacy/syntax/compile_time.pxi
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+DEF NON_MONOTONIC = True
+DEF USE_BREAK = True
+DEF USE_SPLIT = False
+DEF MAX_SPLIT = 1