diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
index f0d5b7fff..da0764c3a 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ class ClozeMultitask(Pipe):
     @classmethod
     def Model(cls, vocab, tok2vec, **cfg):
         if cfg["objective"] == "characters":
-            out_sizes = [256] * cfg.get("nr_char", 10)
+            out_sizes = [256] * cfg.get("nr_char", 4)
             output_layer = MultiSoftmax(out_sizes)
         else:
             output_size = vocab.vectors.data.shape[1]
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ class ClozeMultitask(Pipe):
         self.model = model
         self.cfg = cfg
         self.cfg.setdefault("objective", "characters")
-        self.cfg.setdefault("nr_char", 10)
+        self.cfg.setdefault("nr_char", 4)
 
     def set_annotations(self, docs, dep_ids, tensors=None):
         pass
@@ -1094,6 +1094,7 @@ cdef class DependencyParser(Parser):
     assigns = ["token.dep", "token.is_sent_start", "doc.sents"]
     requires = []
     TransitionSystem = ArcEager
+    nr_feature = 8
 
     @property
     def postprocesses(self):