diff --git a/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_spancat.py b/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_spancat.py
index c4615f793..99128cfa6 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_spancat.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_spancat.py
@@ -108,13 +108,13 @@ def test_doc_gc():
             # XXX This fails with length 0 sometimes
             assert len(spangroup) > 0
             with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
-                span = spangroup[0]
+                spangroup[0]
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "max_positive,nr_results", [(None, 4), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 4)]
 )
-def test_make_spangroup(max_positive, nr_results):
+def test_make_spangroup_multilabel(max_positive, nr_results):
     fix_random_seed(0)
     nlp = Language()
     spancat = nlp.add_pipe(
@@ -160,6 +160,55 @@ def test_make_spangroup(max_positive, nr_results):
     assert_almost_equal(0.9, spangroup.attrs["scores"][-1], 5)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "threshold,allow_overlap,nr_results", [
+        (0.05, True, 3), (0.05, False, 1), (0.5, True, 2), (0.5, False, 1)]
+)
+def test_make_spangroup_singlelabel(threshold, allow_overlap, nr_results):
+    fix_random_seed(0)
+    nlp = Language()
+    spancat = nlp.add_pipe(
+        "spancat",
+        config={
+            "spans_key": SPAN_KEY,
+            "threshold": threshold,
+            "max_positive": 1,
+        },
+    )
+    doc = nlp.make_doc("Greater London")
+    ngram_suggester = registry.misc.get("spacy.ngram_suggester.v1")(sizes=[1, 2])
+    indices = ngram_suggester([doc])[0].dataXd
+    assert_array_equal(OPS.to_numpy(indices), numpy.asarray([[0, 1], [1, 2], [0, 2]]))
+    labels = ["Thing", "City", "Person", "GreatCity"]
+    scores = numpy.asarray(
+        [[0.2, 0.4, 0.3, 0.1], [0.1, 0.6, 0.2, 0.4], [0.8, 0.7, 0.3, 0.9]], dtype="f"
+    )
+    spangroup = spancat._make_span_group_singlelabel(
+        doc, indices, scores, labels, allow_overlap
+    )
+    assert len(spangroup) == nr_results
+    if threshold > 0.4:
+        if allow_overlap:
+            assert spangroup[0].text == "London"
+            assert spangroup[0].label_ == "City"
+            assert spangroup[1].text == "Greater London"
+            assert spangroup[1].label_ == "GreatCity"
+
+        else:
+            assert spangroup[0].text == "Greater London"
+            assert spangroup[0].label_ == "GreatCity"
+    else:
+        if allow_overlap:
+            assert spangroup[0].text == "Greater"
+            assert spangroup[0].label_ == "City"
+            assert spangroup[1].text == "London"
+            assert spangroup[1].label_ == "City"
+            assert spangroup[2].text == "Greater London"
+            assert spangroup[2].label_ == "GreatCity"
+        else:
+            assert spangroup[0].text == "Greater London"
+
+
 def test_ngram_suggester(en_tokenizer):
     # test different n-gram lengths
     for size in [1, 2, 3]: