diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pyx b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
index eb3894969..7b4572db5 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
@@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ cdef class DependencyParser(Parser):
 
     def init_multitask_objectives(self, get_gold_tuples, pipeline, sgd=None, **cfg):
         for labeller in self._multitasks:
-            tok2vec = self.model[0]
+            tok2vec = self.model.tok2vec
             labeller.begin_training(get_gold_tuples, pipeline=pipeline,
                                     tok2vec=tok2vec, sgd=sgd)
 
@@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ cdef class EntityRecognizer(Parser):
 
     def init_multitask_objectives(self, get_gold_tuples, pipeline, sgd=None, **cfg):
         for labeller in self._multitasks:
-            tok2vec = self.model[0]
+            tok2vec = self.model.tok2vec
             labeller.begin_training(get_gold_tuples, pipeline=pipeline,
                                     tok2vec=tok2vec)