diff --git a/spacy/tests/parser/test_add_label.py b/spacy/tests/parser/test_add_label.py
index 87675e94d..5809f16b8 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/parser/test_add_label.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/parser/test_add_label.py
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ def test_add_label(parser):
         losses = {}
         doc = Doc(parser.vocab, words=["a", "b", "c", "d"])
         gold = {"heads": [1, 1, 3, 3], "deps": ["right", "ROOT", "left", "ROOT"]}
-        parser.update((doc, gold), sgd=sgd, losses=losses)
+        example = Example.from_dict(doc, gold)
+        parser.update([example], sgd=sgd, losses=losses)
     doc = Doc(parser.vocab, words=["a", "b", "c", "d"])
     doc = parser(doc)
     assert doc[0].dep_ == "right"