Rollover child changes parent

Is there a way through pure CSS to change the style of a parent LI on the hover of a child LI?

<ul>
  <li>
    1
    <ul>
      <li>10</li>
      <li> 20</li>
    </ul>
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  <li>2</li>
</ul>

So that when I hover over 10 or 20, a style is applied to 1 or 2?

No, there is no parent selector in CSS.

See here for why this is the case:

http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/css-parent-selectors

In short: performance reasons.