diff --git a/app/src/main/kotlin/de/ids_mannheim/korapxmltools/AnnotationWorkerPool.kt b/app/src/main/kotlin/de/ids_mannheim/korapxmltools/AnnotationWorkerPool.kt
index 79a862d..d601e4a 100644
--- a/app/src/main/kotlin/de/ids_mannheim/korapxmltools/AnnotationWorkerPool.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/kotlin/de/ids_mannheim/korapxmltools/AnnotationWorkerPool.kt
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
                                 }
                                 printOutput(output.toString())
                                 output.clear()
-                                if (!inputGotEof) {
+                                if (!inputGotEof && process.isAlive) {
                                     LOGGER.info("Worker $it waiting for more output")
                                     sleep(10)
                                 }
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
     }
 }
 
+
 fun main() {
     val command = "cat"
     val numWorkers = 3
diff --git a/app/src/test/kotlin/de/ids_mannheim/korapxmltools/KorapXml2ConlluTest.kt b/app/src/test/kotlin/de/ids_mannheim/korapxmltools/KorapXml2ConlluTest.kt
index a34166c..a4de206 100644
--- a/app/src/test/kotlin/de/ids_mannheim/korapxmltools/KorapXml2ConlluTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/test/kotlin/de/ids_mannheim/korapxmltools/KorapXml2ConlluTest.kt
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@
             outContent.toString(),
             "axtomatiqxe"
         )
-        assertTrue("Annotated CoNLL-U should have at least as many lines as the original, but only has ${outContent.toString().count { it == '\n'}} lines",
-            { outContent.toString().count { it == '\n'} >= 61511 })
+        assertTrue("Annotated CoNLL-U should have at least as many lines as the original, but only has ${outContent.toString().count { it == '\n'}} lines"
+        ) { outContent.toString().count { it == '\n' } >= 61511 }
     }
 
     @Test