diff --git a/spacy/tests/test_basic_create.py b/spacy/tests/test_basic_create.py
index 5019196d5..2e3b39be3 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/test_basic_create.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/test_basic_create.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class TestTagger(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_create(self):
         vocab = Vocab()
         templates = ((1,),)
-        model = TaggerModel(vocab.morphology.n_tags, templates, model_loc=None)
+        model = TaggerModel(vocab.morphology.n_tags, templates)
         tagger = Tagger(vocab, model)