diff --git a/spacy/tests/gold/test_lev_align.py b/spacy/tests/gold/test_lev_align.py
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--- a/spacy/tests/gold/test_lev_align.py
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@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# coding: utf-8
-"""Find the min-cost alignment between two tokenizations"""
-
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-from ...gold import _min_edit_path as min_edit_path
-from ...gold import align
-
-import pytest
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('cand,gold,path', [
-    (["U.S", ".", "policy"], ["U.S.", "policy"], (0, 'MDM')),
-    (["U.N", ".", "policy"], ["U.S.", "policy"], (1, 'SDM')),
-    (["The", "cat", "sat", "down"], ["The", "cat", "sat", "down"], (0, 'MMMM')),
-    (["cat", "sat", "down"], ["The", "cat", "sat", "down"], (1, 'IMMM')),
-    (["The", "cat", "down"], ["The", "cat", "sat", "down"], (1, 'MMIM')),
-    (["The", "cat", "sag", "down"], ["The", "cat", "sat", "down"], (1, 'MMSM'))])
-def test_gold_lev_align_edit_path(cand, gold, path):
-    assert min_edit_path(cand, gold) == path
-
-
-def test_gold_lev_align_edit_path2():
-    cand = ["your", "stuff"]
-    gold = ["you", "r", "stuff"]
-    assert min_edit_path(cand, gold) in [(2, 'ISM'), (2, 'SIM')]
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('cand,gold,result', [
-    (["U.S", ".", "policy"], ["U.S.", "policy"], [0, None, 1]),
-    (["your", "stuff"], ["you", "r", "stuff"], [None, 2]),
-    (["i", "like", "2", "guys", "   ", "well", "id", "just", "come", "straight", "out"],
-     ["i", "like", "2", "guys", "well", "i", "d", "just", "come", "straight", "out"],
-     [0, 1, 2, 3, None, 4, None, 7, 8, 9, 10])])
-def test_gold_lev_align(cand, gold, result):
-    assert align(cand, gold) == result