diff --git a/spacy/default_config_pretraining.cfg b/spacy/default_config_pretraining.cfg
index 122a7803a..4011159a4 100644
--- a/spacy/default_config_pretraining.cfg
+++ b/spacy/default_config_pretraining.cfg
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[paths]
+raw_text = null
+
 [pretraining]
 max_epochs = 1000
 dropout = 0.2