* step_through tests: skip instead of xfail
* test_empty_doc should be fixed with new Thinc version
* remove outdated test (there are other misaligned tests now)
* xfail reason
* fix test according to french exceptions
* clarified some skipped tests
* skip ukranian test instead of xfail
* skip instead of xfail
* skip + reason instead of xfail
* removed obsolete tests referring to removed "set_frozen" functionality
* fix test 999
* remove unused AlignmentError
* remove xfail where possible, skip otherwise
* increment thinc release for empty_doc test
* Auto-format tests with black
* Add flake8 config
* Tidy up and remove unused imports
* Fix redefinitions of test functions
* Replace orths_and_spaces with words and spaces
* Fix compatibility with pytest 4.0
* xfail test for now
Test was previously overwritten by following test due to naming conflict, so failure wasn't reported
* Unfail passing test
* Only use fixture via arguments
Fixes pytest 4.0 compatibility
## Description
Related issues: #2379 (should be fixed by separating model tests)
* **total execution time down from > 300 seconds to under 60 seconds** 🎉
* removed all model-specific tests that could only really be run manually anyway – those will now live in a separate test suite in the [`spacy-models`](https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models) repository and are already integrated into our new model training infrastructure
* changed all relative imports to absolute imports to prepare for moving the test suite from `/spacy/tests` to `/tests` (it'll now always test against the installed version)
* merged old regression tests into collections, e.g. `test_issue1001-1500.py` (about 90% of the regression tests are very short anyways)
* tidied up and rewrote existing tests wherever possible
### Todo
- [ ] move tests to `/tests` and adjust CI commands accordingly
- [x] move model test suite from internal repo to `spacy-models`
- [x] ~~investigate why `pipeline/test_textcat.py` is flakey~~
- [x] review old regression tests (leftover files) and see if they can be merged, simplified or deleted
- [ ] update documentation on how to run tests
### Types of change
enhancement, tests
## Checklist
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- [x] I ran the tests, and all new and existing tests passed.
- [ ] My changes don't require a change to the documentation, or if they do, I've added all required information.
* Obsolete .parser, .entity etc names in favour of .pipeline
* Components no longer create models on initialization
* Models created by loading method (from_disk(), from_bytes() etc), or
.begin_training()
* Add .predict(), .set_annotations() methods in components
* Pass state through pipeline, to allow components to share information
more flexibly.
space tokens are now always attached to the previous non-space token
there are two exceptions:
leading space tokens are attached to the first following non-space token
in input that consists exclusively of space tokens, the last space token
is the head of all others.
Ines Montani