diff --git a/spacy/tests/parser/test_ner.py b/spacy/tests/parser/test_ner.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e74c9ccb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spacy/tests/parser/test_ner.py
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import pytest
+
+from ...vocab import Vocab
+from ...syntax.ner import BiluoPushDown
+from ...gold import GoldParse
+from ...tokens import Doc
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def vocab():
+    return Vocab()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def doc(vocab):
+    return Doc(vocab, words=['Casey', 'went', 'to', 'New', 'York', '.'])
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def entity_annots(doc):
+    casey = doc[0:1]
+    ny = doc[3:5]
+    return [(casey.start_char, casey.end_char, 'PERSON'),
+            (ny.start_char, ny.end_char, 'GPE')]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def entity_types(entity_annots):
+    return sorted(set([label for (s, e, label) in entity_annots]))
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def tsys(vocab, entity_types):
+    actions = BiluoPushDown.get_actions(entity_types=entity_types)
+    return BiluoPushDown(vocab.strings, actions)
+
+
+def test_get_oracle_moves(tsys, doc, entity_annots):
+    gold = GoldParse(doc, entities=entity_annots)
+    tsys.preprocess_gold(gold)
+    act_classes = tsys.get_oracle_sequence(doc, gold)
+    names = [tsys.get_class_name(act) for act in act_classes]
+    assert names == ['U-PERSON', 'O', 'O', 'B-GPE', 'L-GPE', 'O']
+
+def test_get_oracle_moves_negative_entities(tsys, doc, entity_annots):
+    entity_annots = [(s, e, '!' + label) for s, e, label in entity_annots]
+    gold = GoldParse(doc, entities=entity_annots)
+    for i, tag in enumerate(gold.ner):
+        if tag == 'L-!GPE':
+            gold.ner[i] = '-'
+    tsys.preprocess_gold(gold)
+    act_classes = tsys.get_oracle_sequence(doc, gold)
+    names = [tsys.get_class_name(act) for act in act_classes]
+
+
+def test_get_oracle_moves_negative_entities2(tsys, vocab):
+    doc = Doc(vocab, words=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
+    gold = GoldParse(doc, entities=[])
+    gold.ner = ['B-!PERSON', 'L-!PERSON', 'B-!PERSON', 'L-!PERSON']
+    tsys.preprocess_gold(gold)
+    act_classes = tsys.get_oracle_sequence(doc, gold)
+    names = [tsys.get_class_name(act) for act in act_classes]
+
+
+def test_get_oracle_moves_negative_O(tsys, vocab):
+    doc = Doc(vocab, words=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
+    gold = GoldParse(doc, entities=[])
+    gold.ner = ['O', '!O', 'O', '!O']
+    tsys.preprocess_gold(gold)
+    act_classes = tsys.get_oracle_sequence(doc, gold)
+    names = [tsys.get_class_name(act) for act in act_classes]