diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/morphologizer.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/morphologizer.pyx
index 7116d7afd..c5d140a4e 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/morphologizer.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/morphologizer.pyx
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ class Morphologizer(Tagger):
     def begin_training(self, get_examples=lambda: [], pipeline=None, sgd=None,
                        **kwargs):
         for example in get_examples():
-            for i, morph in enumerate(example.token_annotation.morphs):
-                pos = example.token_annotation.get_pos(i)
-                morph = Morphology.feats_to_dict(morph)
+            for i, token in enumerate(example.reference):
+                pos = token.pos_
+                morph = token.morph
                 norm_morph = self.vocab.strings[self.vocab.morphology.add(morph)]
                 if pos:
                     morph["POS"] = pos