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@@ -146,6 +146,94 @@ All messages have a role which can either be "assistant" or "prompter". The role
 conversation threads from prompt to leaf node in a conversation tree are stricly alternating 
 between "assistant" and "prompter".
 
+### JSON Example: Message
+
+For readability the following JSON examples are shown formatted with indentation on multiple lines.
+Objects are stored without indentation on a single lines in the actual jsonl files.
+
+```
+{
+    "message_id": "218440fd-5317-4355-91dc-d001416df62b",
+    "parent_id": "13592dfb-a6f9-4748-a92c-32b34e239bb4",
+    "user_id": "8e95461f-5e94-4d8b-a2fb-d4717ce973e4",
+    "text": "It was the winter of 2035, and artificial intelligence (..)",
+    "role": "assistant",
+    "lang": "en",
+    "review_count": 3,
+    "review_result": true,
+    "deleted": false,
+    "rank": 0,
+    "synthetic": true,
+    "model_name": "oasst-sft-0_3000,max_new_tokens=400 (..)",
+    "labels": {
+        "spam": { "value": 0.0, "count": 3 },
+        "lang_mismatch": { "value": 0.0, "count": 3 },
+        "pii": { "value": 0.0, "count": 3 },
+        "not_appropriate": { "value": 0.0, "count": 3 },
+        "hate_speech": { "value": 0.0, "count": 3 },
+        "sexual_content": { "value": 0.0, "count": 3 },
+        "quality": { "value": 0.416, "count": 3 },
+        "toxicity": { "value": 0.16, "count": 3 },
+        "humor": { "value": 0.0, "count": 3 },
+        "creativity": { "value": 0.33, "count": 3 },
+        "violence": { "value": 0.16, "count": 3 }
+    }
+}
+```
+
+### JSON Example: Conversation Tree
+
+For readability only a subset of properties are shown here.
+
+```
+{
+  "message_tree_id": "14fbb664-a620-45ce-bee4-7c519b16a793",
+  "tree_state": "ready_for_export",
+  "prompt": {
+    "message_id": "14fbb664-a620-45ce-bee4-7c519b16a793",
+    "text": "Why can't we divide by 0? (..)",
+    "role": "prompter",
+    "lang": "en",
+    "replies": [
+      {
+        "message_id": "894d30b6-56b4-4605-a504-89dd15d4d1c8",
+        "text": "The reason we cannot divide by zero is because (..)",
+        "role": "assistant",
+        "lang": "en",
+        "replies": [
+          // ...
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        "message_id": "84d0913b-0fd9-4508-8ef5-205626a7039d",
+        "text": "The reason that the result of a division by zero is (..)",
+        "role": "assistant",
+        "lang": "en",
+        "replies": [
+          {
+            "message_id": "3352725e-f424-4e3b-a627-b6db831bdbaa",
+            "text": "Math is confusing. Like those weird Irrational (..)",
+            "role": "prompter",
+            "lang": "en",
+            "replies": [
+              {
+                "message_id": "f46207ca-3149-46e9-a466-9163d4ce499c",
+                "text": "Irrational numbers are simply numbers (..)",
+                "role": "assistant",
+                "lang": "en",
+                "replies": []
+              },
+              // ...
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+
 Please refer to [oasst-data](https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant/tree/main/oasst-data) for
 details about the data structure and python code to read and write jsonl files containing oasst objects.