diff --git a/spacy/cli/debug_data.py b/spacy/cli/debug_data.py
index 97b4db285..2826cd084 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/debug_data.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/debug_data.py
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ def debug_data(
                 show=verbose,
             )
         else:
-            msg.good("Examples without ocurrences available for all labels")
+            msg.good("Examples without occurrences available for all labels")
 
     if "ner" in factory_names:
         # Get all unique NER labels present in the data
diff --git a/spacy/tests/doc/test_morphanalysis.py b/spacy/tests/doc/test_morphanalysis.py
index 918d4acdc..49e32b936 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/doc/test_morphanalysis.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/doc/test_morphanalysis.py
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ def test_token_morph_key(i_has):
 def test_morph_props(i_has):
     assert i_has[0].morph.get("PronType") == ["prs"]
     assert i_has[1].morph.get("PronType") == []
+    assert i_has[1].morph.get("AsdfType", ["asdf"]) == ["asdf"]
+    assert i_has[1].morph.get("AsdfType", default=["asdf", "qwer"]) == ["asdf", "qwer"]
 
 
 def test_morph_iter(i_has):
diff --git a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
index 0e75b5f7a..a4a68ae8e 100644
--- a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
@@ -834,10 +834,12 @@ cdef class Tokenizer:
             self.token_match = re.compile(data["token_match"]).match
         if "url_match" in data and isinstance(data["url_match"], str):
             self.url_match = re.compile(data["url_match"]).match
-        if "rules" in data and isinstance(data["rules"], dict):
-            self.rules = data["rules"]
         if "faster_heuristics" in data:
             self.faster_heuristics = data["faster_heuristics"]
+        # always load rules last so that all other settings are set before the
+        # internal tokenization for the phrase matcher
+        if "rules" in data and isinstance(data["rules"], dict):
+            self.rules = data["rules"]
         return self
 
 
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/morphanalysis.pyi b/spacy/tokens/morphanalysis.pyi
index b86203cc4..a5376e80d 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/morphanalysis.pyi
+++ b/spacy/tokens/morphanalysis.pyi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import Any, Dict, Iterator, List, Union
+from typing import Any, Dict, Iterator, List, Optional, Union
 from ..vocab import Vocab
 
 class MorphAnalysis:
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class MorphAnalysis:
     def __hash__(self) -> int: ...
     def __eq__(self, other: MorphAnalysis) -> bool: ...  # type: ignore[override]
     def __ne__(self, other: MorphAnalysis) -> bool: ...  # type: ignore[override]
-    def get(self, field: Any) -> List[str]: ...
+    def get(self, field: Any, default: Optional[List[str]]) -> List[str]: ...
     def to_json(self) -> str: ...
     def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, str]: ...
     def __str__(self) -> str: ...
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/morphanalysis.pyx b/spacy/tokens/morphanalysis.pyx
index a7d1f2e44..baa3800a1 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/morphanalysis.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/morphanalysis.pyx
@@ -58,10 +58,14 @@ cdef class MorphAnalysis:
     def __ne__(self, other):
         return self.key != other.key
 
-    def get(self, field):
+    def get(self, field, default=None):
         """Retrieve feature values by field."""
         cdef attr_t field_id = self.vocab.strings.as_int(field)
         cdef np.ndarray results = get_by_field(&self.c, field_id)
+        if len(results) == 0:
+            if default is None:
+                default = []
+            return default
         features = [self.vocab.strings[result] for result in results]
         return [f.split(Morphology.FIELD_SEP)[1] for f in features]
 
diff --git a/website/docs/api/morphology.mdx b/website/docs/api/morphology.mdx
index 68d80b814..5d4affafe 100644
--- a/website/docs/api/morphology.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/api/morphology.mdx
@@ -213,10 +213,11 @@ Retrieve values for a feature by field.
 > assert morph.get("Feat1") == ["Val1", "Val2"]
 > ```
 
-| Name        | Description                                      |
-| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
-| `field`     | The field to retrieve. ~~str~~                   |
-| **RETURNS** | A list of the individual features. ~~List[str]~~ |
+| Name                                   | Description                                                                                                                    |
+| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `field`                                | The field to retrieve. ~~str~~                                                                                                 |
+| `default` <Tag variant="new">3.6</Tag> | The value to return if the field is not present. If unset or `None`, the default return value is `[]`. ~~Optional[List[str]]~~ |
+| **RETURNS**                            | A list of the individual features. ~~List[str]~~                                                                               |
 
 ### MorphAnalysis.to_dict {id="morphanalysis-to_dict",tag="method"}