diff --git a/spacy/tests/conftest.py b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
index 46eb1e22e..5a4785c27 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def en_entityrecognizer():
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def lemmatizer(path):
+def lemmatizer():
     return English.Defaults.ceate_lemmatizer()