diff --git a/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js b/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
index 501cdef71..c7b1d1f08 100644
--- a/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
+++ b/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
@@ -14,12 +14,11 @@ describe('TreeSitterLanguageMode', () => {
   beforeEach(async () => {
     editor = await atom.workspace.open('')
     buffer = editor.getBuffer()
-    atom.config.set('core.useTreeSitterParsers', true)
   })
 
   describe('highlighting', () => {
-    it('applies the most specific scope mapping to each token in the syntax tree', () => {
-      grammar = new TreeSitterGrammar(atom.grammars, jsGrammarPath, {
+    it('applies the most specific scope mapping to each node in the syntax tree', () => {
+      const grammar = new TreeSitterGrammar(atom.grammars, jsGrammarPath, {
         parser: 'tree-sitter-javascript',
         scopes: {
           'program': 'source',
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ describe('TreeSitterLanguageMode', () => {
 
       buffer.setLanguageMode(new TreeSitterLanguageMode({buffer, grammar}))
       buffer.setText('aa.bbb = cc(d.eee());')
-      expect(getTokens(editor).slice(0, 1)).toEqual([[
+      expectTokensToEqual(editor, [
         {text: 'aa.', scopes: ['source']},
         {text: 'bbb', scopes: ['source', 'property']},
         {text: ' = ', scopes: ['source']},
@@ -39,16 +38,42 @@ describe('TreeSitterLanguageMode', () => {
         {text: '(d.', scopes: ['source']},
         {text: 'eee', scopes: ['source', 'method']},
         {text: '());', scopes: ['source']}
-      ]])
+      ])
+    })
+
+    it('can start or end multiple scopes at the same position', () => {
+      const grammar = new TreeSitterGrammar(atom.grammars, jsGrammarPath, {
+        parser: 'tree-sitter-javascript',
+        scopes: {
+          'program': 'source',
+          'call_expression': 'call',
+          'member_expression': 'member',
+          'identifier': 'variable',
+          '"("': 'open-paren',
+          '")"': 'close-paren',
+        }
+      })
+
+      buffer.setLanguageMode(new TreeSitterLanguageMode({buffer, grammar}))
+      buffer.setText('a = bb.ccc();')
+      expectTokensToEqual(editor, [
+        {text: 'a', scopes: ['source', 'variable']},
+        {text: ' = ', scopes: ['source']},
+        {text: 'bb', scopes: ['source', 'call', 'member', 'variable']},
+        {text: '.ccc', scopes: ['source', 'call', 'member']},
+        {text: '(', scopes: ['source', 'call', 'open-paren']},
+        {text: ')', scopes: ['source', 'call', 'close-paren']},
+        {text: ';', scopes: ['source']}
+      ])
     })
   })
 })
 
-function getTokens (editor) {
-  const result = []
+function expectTokensToEqual (editor, expectedTokens) {
+  const tokens = []
   for (let row = 0, lastRow = editor.getLastScreenRow(); row <= lastRow; row++) {
-    result.push(
-      editor.tokensForScreenRow(row).map(({text, scopes}) => ({
+    tokens.push(
+      ...editor.tokensForScreenRow(row).map(({text, scopes}) => ({
         text,
         scopes: scopes.map(scope => scope
           .split(' ')
@@ -57,5 +82,9 @@ function getTokens (editor) {
       }))
     )
   }
-  return result
+
+  expect(tokens.length).toEqual(expectedTokens.length)
+  for (let i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++) {
+    expect(tokens[i]).toEqual(expectedTokens[i], `Token ${i}`)
+  }
 }