diff --git a/tests/taskmodules/test_pointer_network_for_end2end_re.py b/tests/taskmodules/test_pointer_network_for_end2end_re.py
index 702da989b..d7869e369 100644
--- a/tests/taskmodules/test_pointer_network_for_end2end_re.py
+++ b/tests/taskmodules/test_pointer_network_for_end2end_re.py
@@ -256,23 +256,168 @@ def task_encoding_without_target(taskmodule, document):
     return taskmodule.encode_input(document)[0]
 
 
-def test_input_encoding(task_encoding_without_target, taskmodule):
-    assert task_encoding_without_target is not None
-    tokens = taskmodule.tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(
-        task_encoding_without_target.inputs.input_ids
+@pytest.fixture(params=[False, True])
+def taskmodule_with_reversed_relations(document, request) -> PointerNetworkTaskModuleForEnd2EndRE:
+    is_about_is_symmetric = request.param
+    taskmodule = PointerNetworkTaskModuleForEnd2EndRE(
+        tokenizer_name_or_path="facebook/bart-base",
+        relation_layer_name="relations",
+        exclude_labels_per_layer={"relations": ["no_relation"]},
+        annotation_field_mapping={
+            "entities": "labeled_spans",
+            "relations": "binary_relations",
+        },
+        create_constraints=True,
+        tokenizer_kwargs={"strict_span_conversion": False},
+        add_reversed_relations=True,
+        symmetric_relations=["is_about"] if is_about_is_symmetric else None,
     )
-    if taskmodule.partition_layer_name is None:
-        assert asdict(task_encoding_without_target.inputs) == {
-            "input_ids": [0, 713, 16, 10, 34759, 2788, 59, 1085, 4, 3101, 162, 4, 2],
-            "attention_mask": [1] * 13,
+
+    taskmodule.prepare(documents=[document])
+    assert taskmodule.is_prepared
+    if is_about_is_symmetric:
+        assert taskmodule.prepared_attributes == {
+            "labels_per_layer": {
+                "entities": ["content", "person", "topic"],
+                "relations": ["is_about"],
+            }
         }
-    elif taskmodule.partition_layer_name == "sentences":
-        assert asdict(task_encoding_without_target.inputs) == {
-            "input_ids": [0, 713, 16, 10, 34759, 2788, 59, 1085, 4, 2],
-            "attention_mask": [1] * 10,
+    else:
+        assert taskmodule.prepared_attributes == {
+            "labels_per_layer": {
+                "entities": ["content", "person", "topic"],
+                "relations": ["is_about", "is_about_reversed"],
+            }
+        }
+
+    return taskmodule
+
+
+def test_encode_with_add_reversed_relations(taskmodule_with_reversed_relations, document):
+    task_encodings = taskmodule_with_reversed_relations.encode(document, encode_target=True)
+    assert len(task_encodings) == 1
+    task_encoding = task_encodings[0]
+    assert task_encoding is not None
+    assert asdict(task_encoding.inputs) == {
+        "input_ids": [0, 713, 16, 10, 34759, 2788, 59, 1085, 4, 3101, 162, 4, 2],
+        "attention_mask": [1] * 13,
+    }
+    tokens = taskmodule_with_reversed_relations.tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(
+        task_encoding.inputs.input_ids
+    )
+    assert tokens == [
+        "<s>",
+        "This",
+        "Ġis",
+        "Ġa",
+        "Ġdummy",
+        "Ġtext",
+        "Ġabout",
+        "Ġnothing",
+        ".",
+        "ĠTrust",
+        "Ġme",
+        ".",
+        "</s>",
+    ]
+    if not taskmodule_with_reversed_relations.symmetric_relations:
+        assert task_encoding.targets.labels == [
+            15,
+            15,
+            5,
+            12,
+            13,
+            3,
+            6,
+            12,
+            13,
+            3,
+            15,
+            15,
+            5,
+            7,
+            18,
+            18,
+            4,
+            2,
+            2,
+            2,
+            2,
+            1,
+        ]
+        decoded_annotations, statistics = taskmodule_with_reversed_relations.decode_annotations(
+            task_encoding.targets
+        )
+        assert decoded_annotations == {
+            "entities": [
+                LabeledSpan(start=4, end=6, label="content", score=1.0),
+                LabeledSpan(start=7, end=8, label="topic", score=1.0),
+                LabeledSpan(start=10, end=11, label="person", score=1.0),
+            ],
+            "relations": [
+                BinaryRelation(
+                    head=LabeledSpan(start=4, end=6, label="content", score=1.0),
+                    tail=LabeledSpan(start=7, end=8, label="topic", score=1.0),
+                    label="is_about",
+                    score=1.0,
+                ),
+                BinaryRelation(
+                    head=LabeledSpan(start=7, end=8, label="topic", score=1.0),
+                    tail=LabeledSpan(start=4, end=6, label="content", score=1.0),
+                    label="is_about_reversed",
+                    score=1.0,
+                ),
+            ],
         }
     else:
-        raise Exception(f"unknown partition_layer_name: {taskmodule.partition_layer_name}")
+        assert task_encoding.targets.labels == [
+            14,
+            14,
+            5,
+            11,
+            12,
+            3,
+            6,
+            11,
+            12,
+            3,
+            14,
+            14,
+            5,
+            6,
+            17,
+            17,
+            4,
+            2,
+            2,
+            2,
+            2,
+            1,
+        ]
+        decoded_annotations, statistics = taskmodule_with_reversed_relations.decode_annotations(
+            task_encoding.targets
+        )
+        assert decoded_annotations == {
+            "entities": [
+                LabeledSpan(start=4, end=6, label="content", score=1.0),
+                LabeledSpan(start=7, end=8, label="topic", score=1.0),
+                LabeledSpan(start=10, end=11, label="person", score=1.0),
+            ],
+            "relations": [
+                BinaryRelation(
+                    head=LabeledSpan(start=4, end=6, label="content", score=1.0),
+                    tail=LabeledSpan(start=7, end=8, label="topic", score=1.0),
+                    label="is_about",
+                    score=1.0,
+                ),
+                BinaryRelation(
+                    head=LabeledSpan(start=7, end=8, label="topic", score=1.0),
+                    tail=LabeledSpan(start=4, end=6, label="content", score=1.0),
+                    label="is_about",
+                    score=1.0,
+                ),
+            ],
+        }
 
 
 @pytest.fixture()