diff --git a/spacy/tests/lang/en/test_lemmatizer.py b/spacy/tests/lang/en/test_lemmatizer.py
index ecde87bed..22c8f2499 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/lang/en/test_lemmatizer.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/lang/en/test_lemmatizer.py
@@ -57,6 +57,5 @@ def test_en_lemmatizer_punct(en_lemmatizer):
 def test_en_lemmatizer_lemma_assignment(EN):
     text = "Bananas in pyjamas are geese."
     doc = EN.make_doc(text)
-    assert all(t.lemma_ == '' for t in doc)
     EN.tagger(doc)
     assert all(t.lemma_ != '' for t in doc)