From 4cbad510ff61b5c165a8829d28344f043fefe92c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 02:32:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] * Fix calculation of head for spans with punctuation.

---
 spacy/tokens/span.pyx | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/tokens/span.pyx b/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
index aa2751a56..6f2ba9154 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
@@ -242,6 +242,8 @@ cdef int _count_words_to_root(const TokenC* token, int sent_length) except -1:
     # better candidates
     if Lexeme.c_check_flag(token.lex, IS_SPACE):
         return sent_length-1
+    if Lexeme.c_check_flag(token.lex, IS_PUNCT):
+        return sent_length-1
 
     cdef int n = 0
     while token.head != 0: