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+import pytest
+
+@pytest.mark.models('en')
+def test_issue1305(EN):
+    '''Test lemmatization of English VBZ'''
+    assert EN.vocab.morphology.lemmatizer('works', 'verb') == set(['work'])
+    doc = EN(u'This app works well')
+    assert doc[2].lemma_ == 'work'