diff --git a/platform-dao/src/main/java/ua/com/fielden/platform/entity/query/IRetrievalModel.java b/platform-dao/src/main/java/ua/com/fielden/platform/entity/query/IRetrievalModel.java
index d6073665db..404a0a3f58 100644
--- a/platform-dao/src/main/java/ua/com/fielden/platform/entity/query/IRetrievalModel.java
+++ b/platform-dao/src/main/java/ua/com/fielden/platform/entity/query/IRetrievalModel.java
@@ -5,9 +5,22 @@
 
 import ua.com.fielden.platform.entity.AbstractEntity;
 
+/**
+ * Represents a retrieval model.
+ * At a high level, this abstraction is very similar to that of fetch models, the difference being that the API of fetch
+ * models is designed to be used by application developers, while this abstraction is used by the EQL-SQL transpiler and
+ * the query execution engine.
+ *
+ * @param <T>  the entity type that can be retrieved with a retrieval model instance
+ * @see ua.com.fielden.platform.entity.query.fluent.fetch
+ */
 public interface IRetrievalModel<T extends AbstractEntity<?>> {
+
     Class<T> getEntityType();
 
+    /**
+     * Indicates whether entity instances retrieved with this fetch model are expected to be instrumented.
+     */
     boolean isInstrumented();
 
     Map<String, EntityRetrievalModel<? extends AbstractEntity<?>>> getRetrievalModels();
@@ -20,7 +33,16 @@ public interface IRetrievalModel<T extends AbstractEntity<?>> {
 
     boolean containsProxy(final String propName);
 
+    /**
+     * Indicates whether this fetch model is at the root of the entity graph. In other words, if this method returns
+     * {@code true}, this fetch model is not a part of some other fetch model (i.e., there is no such fetch model whose
+     * {@link #getRetrievalModels()} includes this fetch model.)
+     */
     boolean topLevel();
 
+    /**
+     * Indicates whether this fetch model includes only such properties that are calculated and "for totals".
+     */
     boolean containsOnlyTotals();
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+
+}