diff --git a/spacy/attrs.pyx b/spacy/attrs.pyx
index 8ce0f7a17..8d76160f4 100644
--- a/spacy/attrs.pyx
+++ b/spacy/attrs.pyx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ATTR_IDS = {
+IDS = {
     "NULL_ATTR": NULL_ATTR,
     "IS_ALPHA": IS_ALPHA,
     "IS_ASCII": IS_ASCII,
@@ -87,4 +87,4 @@ ATTR_IDS = {
 }
 
 # ATTR IDs, in order of the symbol
-ATTR_NAMES = [key for key, value in sorted(ATTR_IDS.items(), key=lambda item: item[1])]
+NAMES = [key for key, value in sorted(IDS.items(), key=lambda item: item[1])]
diff --git a/spacy/morphology.pyx b/spacy/morphology.pyx
index 534f64a59..8d2a73608 100644
--- a/spacy/morphology.pyx
+++ b/spacy/morphology.pyx
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     import json
 
-from .parts_of_speech import UNIV_POS_NAMES
+from .parts_of_speech import IDS as POS_IDS
 from .parts_of_speech cimport ADJ, VERB, NOUN, PUNCT
 
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ cdef class Morphology:
             self.rich_tags[i].id = i
             self.rich_tags[i].name = self.strings[tag_str]
             self.rich_tags[i].morph = 0
-            self.rich_tags[i].pos = UNIV_POS_NAMES[props['pos'].upper()]
+            self.rich_tags[i].pos = POS_IDS[props['pos'].upper()]
             self.reverse_index[self.rich_tags[i].name] = i
         self._cache = PreshMapArray(self.n_tags)
 
diff --git a/spacy/parts_of_speech.pyx b/spacy/parts_of_speech.pyx
index 8c2348a47..57d9c801b 100644
--- a/spacy/parts_of_speech.pyx
+++ b/spacy/parts_of_speech.pyx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 
-UNIV_POS_NAMES = {
+IDS = {
     "NO_TAG": NO_TAG,
     "ADJ": ADJ,
     "ADP": ADP,
@@ -23,3 +23,6 @@ UNIV_POS_NAMES = {
     "EOL": EOL,
     "SPACE": SPACE
 }
+
+
+NAMES = [key for key, value in sorted(IDS.items(), key=lambda item: item[1])]
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
index eab6c044e..50b19d4c1 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ from ..typedefs cimport attr_t, flags_t
 from ..attrs cimport attr_id_t
 from ..attrs cimport ID, ORTH, NORM, LOWER, SHAPE, PREFIX, SUFFIX, LENGTH, CLUSTER
 from ..attrs cimport POS, LEMMA, TAG, DEP, HEAD, SPACY, ENT_IOB, ENT_TYPE
-from ..parts_of_speech import UNIV_POS_NAMES
 from ..parts_of_speech cimport CONJ, PUNCT, NOUN
 from ..parts_of_speech cimport univ_pos_t
 from ..lexeme cimport Lexeme
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/token.pyx b/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
index 25db3f47e..af80b5359 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import numpy
 
 
 from ..lexeme cimport Lexeme
-from ..parts_of_speech import UNIV_POS_NAMES
+from .. import parts_of_speech
 
 from ..attrs cimport LEMMA
 from ..attrs cimport ID, ORTH, NORM, LOWER, SHAPE, PREFIX, SUFFIX, LENGTH, CLUSTER
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ cdef class Token:
 
     property pos_:
         def __get__(self):
-            return _pos_id_to_string[self.c.pos]
+            return parts_of_speech.NAMES[self.c.pos]
 
     property tag_:
         def __get__(self):
@@ -363,6 +363,3 @@ cdef class Token:
 
     property like_email:
         def __get__(self): return Lexeme.c_check_flag(self.c.lex, LIKE_EMAIL)
-
-
-_pos_id_to_string = {id_: string for string, id_ in UNIV_POS_NAMES.items()}